California Digital Newspaper Collection

We are currently upgrading the CDNC. The site should be back online soon.

Recent editorial in support of the CDNC:

Erasing history: California’s digital news archive is at risk of going dark | Opinion “The state is poised to effectively erase a vital part of our collective memory by allowing the California Digital Newspaper Collection to go dark.”

Hello everyone, we are still battling bot traffic that is crushing the CDNC. We have a solution being put into place over the weekend that we hope will resolve the problem. Fingers crossed.

The CDNC is experiencing unusually high traffic again--probably related to AI--that has crashed our servers again. We're working to get back online.

The CDNC is back online. Thanks for your patience while we updated some hardware.

We've replaced the broken drives in the CDNC but the site is still not responding. We asked the vendor to look into the problem and hope to have more details later today.

Heavy traffic from OpenAI has caused our servers to stop responding. We're working to block the offending requests and get the archive online again. Thanks for your patience.