I’ve been continuing work on my US Local News search because I’m sick of trying to find news online and getting whatever slop someone managed to slip into a search engine’s index. When I want local news I want LOCAL NEWS, not junk! I’ve just finished a new version and I’m pleased to share it with you at https://searchtweaks.com/lns/ . US Local News Search has no fees, no advertising, and works best on desktop.

The first version of US Local News Search had just TV stations, powered by a search of the FCC license database. In this new version, I have also added state newspapers via a Wikipedia search. Each newspaper listing has a brief description, also from Wikipedia. Choose a city and state and the program will list the local TV stations that serve that city/state and the newspapers that serve that state, all with checkboxes.

Check the boxes of the sources you want to search and set the date span you want to search. The default is 30 days but you can set it to whatever you like, or even generate searches for multiple spans at once if you want to compare result sets. After choosing the sources and dates the search, the last thing to do is add your own query terms. Once you’ve done that, the program generates Google search result URLs which open in a new tab.

Wikipedia’s newspaper listing is not as authoritative as the FCC license database, which is VERY authoritative. But it does give you a chance to build your own search using a transparent list of sources that are focused on one area. I’m very happy with how this is going and I’m going to add more sources if I can. Happy searching!