There are new reports at the Google News Help forum that Google has removed the “sort by date” feature on the left hand side after conducting a news search.

The feature first introduced in May 2007 has become incredibly useful for many. But now many cannot see it nor use it.

I personally still see the date sorting option on Google News, but I am also still on the old design. So maybe it is only impacting those on the new design?

Google has yet to confirm the bug or address it.

The first report of this came yesterday, where a searcher said:

Forum discussion at Google News Help.