[wp-hackers] get list of items in a category

[Brian Fidler]

This is a simple one but I'm pretty new to WP. I've set up a News category
and have created a special page template for news items. I want to display a
list of items in the News category, ordered by most recent date first. What
WP function would I use? I'm currently using <?php get_the_category('News');
?> but it's not returning anything.

thanks.