Lee announced a Montana State News Bureau near the end of 2020 that serves the Gazette and its sister papers.

[3] In 1959, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company sold the paper to Lee Enterprises.

[4] In May 2020, non-managerial employees at the paper, including reporters, copy-editors and photographers, announced the formation of the Montana News Guild, and in July of that year they unanimously voted to unionize.

Their first contract was ratified in November, making the Gazette the only unionized newspaper in the state of Montana.

On September 15, 2021, it was announced that the Gazette's downtown headquarters would be listed for sale, as most of the building was by then vacant as a result of a rapidly shrinking staff.