Search news web pages
Google News searches 4,500 English-language news web pages worldwide. You can narrow down by region and it includes an historical search.
Google News Archive provides access to scanned versions of old newspapers. A timeline view is available to quickly see what dates are available for the selected newspapers.
Yahoo News will keyword search across thousands of news sources, plus the Yahoo full coverage which includes human sorted news stories.
Note: The Library also has subscription databases that contain news archives. For more information see the guide Finding News.