If you try to access the Google News Archive Search Home page, you will be redirected to the advanced search page at Google News instead of the old Google News Archive Search home page.
The old page, which was around since around 2006 and continually added features through 2010 looked like this:
Gary Price tipped me off to this and may have a more official post on this at Search Engine Land on this soon. But the news of this going offline came via Google News Help and Google Web Search Help.
Many users are not happy, here is what some are saying:
When Google shut down their newspaper scanning project, they told Search Engine Land:
Users can continue to search digitized newspapers at http://news.google.com/archivesearch, but we don’t plan to introduce any further features or functionality to the Google News Archives and we are no longer accepting new microfilm or digital files for processing.
I should note, you can see use the feature. For example, here is an news archive search for [jimmy buffett]. You can also use the advanced search page at Google News to get to this information. But the old home page seems to be gone, at least for now.
Forum discussion at Google News Help and Google Web Search Help.
