The Daily Mining Gazette is a newspaper published in Houghton, Michigan. The paper is also distributed over most of the Upper Peninsula and some northern parts of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It is a daily Monday through Friday, with an expanded, combined Saturday-Sunday edition. The Gazette was established by J.R. Devereaux as a weekly in 1858 under the name Portage Lake Mining Gazette. The office was sold to Henry Mckenzie in 1860 and he continued as the publisher and editor until he sold the office back to J.R. Devereaux in 1870. The paper was changed to a daily when the operation of the Gazette was taken over by W.G. Rice in 1899. Rice served as editor until his death in 1941. The editor position was then passed onto his son Jack. In 1941 the Gazette began publishing in two editions, the Calumet News, which was an evening paper and Evening News Journal and in Houghton as the morning edition Portage Lake Mining Gazette until 1943. In 1943 two years after the onset of World War II the Mining Gazette Company suffered a personnel shortage had to consolidate the Portage Lake Mining Gazette and the Calumet News into the Mining Gazette. In 1981 the Superior national Bank in Hancock took ownership of the publication after the death of owner and publisher, Mildred Rice. The Gazette was purchased in 1982 by the Thompson Newspapers of Canada and changed hands again in 1996 when it was purchased by the Ogden Newspapers of Wheeling, Virginia.