[not verified in body] The Daily Mail was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Governor Walter Eli Clark and remained the property of his heirs until 1987.

The newspaper published in the afternoons, Monday–Saturday, with a Sunday morning edition, until 1961, when the paper entered into a Joint Operating Agreement with the morning Charleston Gazette and the new Sunday Charleston Gazette-Mail was substituted and the Daily Mail began a six-day afternoon publishing schedule.

[citation needed] In May 2004, MediaNews sold the paper to the Daily Gazette Company, the owners of the morning newspaper.

It also began to market the paper in an uncompetitive manner in an attempt to drive its circulation down to the point it could be closed.

In the course of the lawsuit it was discovered that the Daily Gazette Company had presented a business plan to the United Bank which projected a shutdown of the paper no later than 2007.