It covers local and national news, sports, culture, and entertainment.

Hodgson remained publisher through 1909, when the Daily Local News Company formed to manage the newspaper.

[3] The Daily Local News continued to circulate briskly throughout the twentieth century, adding a Sunday edition in 1986.

[4] The newspaper downsized in 2017, relocating its headquarters to its printing plant in Uwchlan and selling the West Chester building that had housed the paper since 1970.

[5] Humorist Dave Barry worked at the paper from 1971 to 1977, starting as a reporter and becoming news editor in 1975.