The Pioneer Press is owned by MediaNews Group, controlled by Alden Global Capital.

The publication eventually made the transition to a morning-only paper, and on March 26, 1990, the word "Dispatch" was dropped.

[7] From 1947 to 1949, the newspaper printed the comic strip Li'l Folks, by Twin Cities native Charles M. Schulz.

In 1952, the Dispatch began sponsoring a treasure hunt as part of the Saint Paul Winter Carnival.

On March 10, 1999, the day before the University of Minnesota men's basketball team was to begin play in the NCAA Tournament, the Pioneer Press published a story written by George Dohrmann with allegations that a staffer wrote coursework for many Minnesota basketball players within the past five years.

[11] Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura accused the Pioneer Press of timing the article to be published around NCAA Tournament time for the sake of "sensationalism journalism", and the Pioneer Press got many hostile calls and letters in response to the story.

The great-great-grandson of George Thompson, a former owner/editor of the paper, took a 1914 pocket watch of his grandfather's to the Antiques Roadshow when it came to St.

The hedge fund Alden Global Capital now owns a controlling share of the Pioneer Press.