The paper was owned by the Kerney family from the turn of the 20th century, and was sold to The Washington Post Company in 1974 for $16 million.

The home city was dropped from the title in 1985 as part of an effort to reach out to a broader suburban audience, with separate editions published for (and focusing on) the Trenton, Princeton and Burlington County areas.

In December 1986, the paper was sold by Albritton for $50 million to Advance Publications, the privately held company owned by the Newhouse family.

[4] In 1987, the revitalized Trenton Times surpassed the tabloid Trentonian in both daily and Sunday paid circulation.

In 2011, the historic offices on Perry Street in Trenton, by this time in a state of advanced decay, with very serious roof leaks that at one point completely soaked the newspaper library and its years of paper clippings, were sold to a new owner who proposed to convert the building and its parking lot into a fabricated concrete distribution facility.

When the building was sold, the remaining Times crew, numbering around 30, moved into leased offices at River View Plaza beside Waterfront Park, the Mercer County ballpark.

Restructuring efforts initially led to a repopulation of the newsroom, as the headcount expanded and the editorial operations reacquired some of their former liveliness.