They share an owner that sometimes gets forgotten — but which dominates much larger peers in web traffic. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 local newspaper websites in the United States.

The owner of the venerable but fledgling news outlet says he wants to take it public, is it about giving the public a stake in the company, or bailing it out?

Traditional news media are losing influence in the U.S., with, for the first time, most people accessing news via social ...