The paper was founded by William Farrow Taylor as the
Cambridge Daily News in 1888. The paper was later sold to the
Iliffe family, who continued to turn the paper into a profit-making business under the new name of the
Cambridge Evening News, starting in 1969. In 2012,
Local World acquired the title from
Yattendon Group. Until 2002 the
St Neots edition was titled
St Neots Evening News and the
Huntingdon &
St Ives edition
Huntingdon and St Ives Evening News for around three years, before reverting to their original names. The editor from February 2008 until April 2016 was Paul Brackley. David Bartlett was appointed editor in June 2016. On Saturday 13 September 2014, the newspaper was relaunched with a new design, alongside daily paid-for regional editions Hunts News, Royston News and Walden News replacing the free weekly publications. The 6 December 2017 edition of
Cambridge News was noted for a printing error on the front page. The newspaper went to print with a main
headline consisting of
placeholder text which read "100PT SPLASH HEADING HERE" instead of the intended news story, followed by more filler text contained in a
strapline. After images of the cover spread
virally on
social media, the editor-in-chief apologised to readers and blamed a technical error in the publishing process. ==Awards==