I’ve been spending the day adding topic pages to my local news aggregator — these are pages where articles are filtered for keywords clustered around a certain topic. This is plain keyword filtering, so you will get the occasional mechanically-produced goofy result, but I’ve found them useful and mostly on-topic. You can browse the topic pages by state and filter them by additional keyword. If you open the page and get no results, reload.
I need to do some tweaking and make a menu page, so until then here is a direct list of the pages:
Severe weather — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-weather.html
Local Politics — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-lpolitics.html
Federal Politics — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-fpolitics.html
Education — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-education.html
Data Centers — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-datacenters.html
Public Safety — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-publicsafety.html
Activism — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-activism.html
LGBTQ — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-LGBTQ.html
Current Events — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-currentevents.html
Good News — https://localsearchamerica.com/local-news-goodnews.html