The daily paper covers a few urban communities and towns in Norfolk and Worcester regions, however until 1998 it was named for Middlesex County or for the town of Framingham (through the vast majority of the mid-twentieth century, as the Framingham News).
Initially a by regional standards claimed night daily paper, the News was bought by the Harte-Hanks daily paper chain as its first attack into Massachusetts news coverage, in 1972.
By 1986, the paper sold 49,000 duplicates every day and 55,000 on
Sunday, furthermore distributed four Framingham-region week by week daily papers: the Town Crier papers in Sudbury, Wayland and Weston, and the Townsman in Wellesley. That year, Harte-Hanks included the Daily Transcript of Dedham and the News-Tribune of Waltham, and 17 weeklies, to its possessions, and combined its Massachusetts properties into a solitary association that got to be known as News-Transcript Group. In 2000, in the wake of adding more weeklies to its fold, Fidelity sold CNC to the distributer of the Boston Herald. The new proprietor initiated a substance sharing game plan in the middle of CNC and the Herald, bringing about a general stream of Daily News stories showing up in the Boston daily paper.
That course of action proceeded for a brief while after the Herald sold CNC to Liberty Group Publishing (later renamed GateHouse Media) in 2006.