December 10, 2021 at 12:16 AMToday Brightspot, the company that develops and manages the WJCT News website, and most NPR member stations' websites, identified a critical issue with the Solr database that powers many of the functions on the website. Unfortunately, after the maintenance was completed, the database index did not recover.
This is causing most of the content on the WJCT News website to not appear on the homepage and to not appear in the search results. The articles are still on the website, but they are harder to find. Brightspot is working to restore the index, but due to the size of the database, the process may take up to 30 hours to complete.
Until it is finished, please search Google or Bing for the article you are looking for, and the link in the search results should take you to the individual article. Thank you again for your patience, and we are sorry for this inconvenience.