  NEWS-G (New Experiments With Spheres-Gas) is an experiment aiming to shine a
light on the dark matter conundrum using a novel gaseous detector, the
Spherical Proportional Counter. NEWS-G uses light noble gases, such as
hydrogen, helium, and neon, as targets, to search for light dark matter down to
the sub-GeV/c${}^{2}$ mass region. The first detector of NEWS-G, is a 60 cm
diameter sphere already operated in the Underground Laboratory of Modane, while
the full-scale detector, 140 cm in diameter, will be installed in SNOLab at the
end of this year. In this work, we present the first NEWS-G results with neon
as target, which excludes at 90$\%$ confidence level cross-sections above
$4.4\cdot 10{}^{37}$ cm${}^{2}$ for a candidate with a mass 0.5 GeV$/$c${}^{2}$
based on 9.7 kg$\cdot$days of exposure. The status of the project and prospects
for the future are also discussed.
