I was reading through the comments waiting for this. It's just one of the local news sites / papers for the area, it's quite terrible in many ways really. I was very surprised to see it on HN this morning.
Try installing a pi-hole in your home network. I set one up more for curiosity than anything else, but an unexpected side effect was that these local news websites, which were previously completely unusable on mobile, suddenly became just about tolerable again.
