SpaceWeather.com often features images of the Sun & its activity from amateurs. The sunspot that appeared yesterday, gave off a flare today & an amateur captured it.
New AR - flares!!
I went looking at SpaceWeather for some of the past stories I read there on solar minimum & sunspots, but as far as I have found, it's not well indexed to find by subject.

If you know the date, you can put that in & bring up the stories from that day, but otherwise, not so much.
SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
PS Here is the thread on solar activity that I earlier alluded to: >>
http://hypography.com/forums/space/1...ike-watch.html