The Gazette typically covers local news, sport, leisure and farming issues.
It also prints opinion pieces, reader letters, and classified advertisements, and contains a property and real estate pull-out section.
Historical copies of the Alnwick Mercury, dating back to 1854, are available to search and view in digitised form at The British Newspaper Archive.
The paper's parent group, Johnston Press, decided to use the Northumberland Gazette as its first news site for accessing its premium content online.
On 31 May 2012 the Gazette, hitherto a broadsheet, was part of the first wave of Johnston Press titles to be relaunched in one of five uniform tabloid formats.