SharePoint News Web Part connecting to "Select Sites" is not pulling in new news stories

Hi Ethan1 ,

My communications team just told me about this issue a few hours ago.

I've logged a ticket with Microsoft, see below.

It must be a coding issue with the News Web part because If I change the Time Zone from New Zealand to US Pacific time And the Region Locale to English United States - the test site news web part and Highlighted content web part show the same correct news items.

I've just tested - the Region Locale for the site is the thing that breaks the news web part. If it isn't "English (United states)"

>>>> ticket content <<<<

Like other users since about 25 Mar 2025 our home page News web part only displays items published on or before 12 Mar 2025.
See this similar post
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/newswebpart-not-showing-all-expected-news/cbf1c570-083c-4501-ac46-e5cc7844bf20?page=2&messageId=832dc1cd-1ee7-4186-8bec-0833ca2e894d
And this similar issue
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/sharepoint_general/sharepoint-news-web-part-connecting-to-select-sites-is-not-pulling-in-new-news-s/4397574

A test site with News web part and Highlighted Content Web part both using the same filter criteria show different news items. Proving that the news items and filter criteria are OK, and that the problem is with the code of the News web part.

If I change the Time Zone from New Zealand to US Pacific time And the Region Locale to English United States - the test site news web part and Higlighted content web part show the same correct news items.