In 1889, it was purchased by
Samuel F. Webb, who at the time was a member of the
15th Arizona Territorial Legislature, as the Councilor from
Maricopa County, the upper house of the legislature. In 1930 it was purchased by Charles Stauffer and W. Wesley Knorpp, the owner of its one-time rival
The Arizona Republic. Both papers were subsequently acquired by
Eugene C. Pulliam, in 1946. Under Pulliam's management, it continued to operate as the main evening paper for the Phoenix area for several decades. During the 1970s and 1980s it was published weekday and Saturday afternoons. In August 1995, the staffs of the
Republic and the
Gazette merged, and the
Gazette mostly became an afternoon edition of the
Republic with a few updates. Eventually the
Gazette's circulation declined and it ceased publication in January 1997. ==References==