You're almost there! Try:

@Model.Ancestor().Descendants("NewsItem")

Hmm I must be doing something else wrong

@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext
@{
    var news_items = @Model.Ancestor().Descendants("NewsItem");
   
            <ul>
                @foreach (var news_item in news_items) {
                    <li>
                        @news_item.Name
                    </li>
                }
            </ul>
}

Copy/paste madness.  That's (kinda) my code.

Such a change just as I was geting used to xslt

Thank you very much

Is there a way to get the NodeType ID instead of the NodeTypeAlias?

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