Story that could be seen as a clue to Times? (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
news item
'story' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'could be seen as a clue to times?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'be' could be 'sit' (sitting is a kind of being) and 'sit' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'that' is the link.
(Other definitions for news item that I've seen before include "Piece of topical information" , "Piece of information in paper etc" , "Piece of important information" .)