Part of Berkshire Hathaway's BH Media Group, the News-Times is published five mornings per week, with Sunday and Monday off.

The York Republican was another newspaper that flourished during this time period and was notable for its large circulation.

[5] By the early 1900s, a series of mergers resulted in the York News-Times becoming the last surviving newspaper from the local media boom period.

In 2020, Berkshire Hathaway sold the newspaper and 30 other daily papers to Lee Enterprises as part of a $140 million cash deal.

[3] In the concern over fake news websites stemming from the 2016 United States presidential election, the York News-Times was sometimes mistakenly cited as a "fake newspaper," largely due to its name being similar to that of the well-known New York Times.