I was merely quoting from my dictionary. It said that news is plural in form but always used as a singular.
As Maple points out, another way of stating it is to say it's an
uncountable noun. In any case, no matter what you call it, it
must be used only with an
s:
news.
Not a new. And whenever it must agree with other sentence elements, these must be singular.
The news is good. Not The news are good.
Not The new is good.
CJ