It is the flagship publication of the News-Press & Gazette Company, which owns newspapers across northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas, and television and radio stations throughout the western United States.

Spencer with a note that it would be "devoted to gab, gossip and paid locals."

By 1883, it claimed "a larger circulations than the Daily and Weekly papers in St. Joseph combined.

Rutt sold the idea to the Davis Milling Company in St. Joseph which marketed it at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.

[2] On June 30, 1988, the Bradleys ceased publication of the Gazette and switched the News-Press to a morning newspaper.