How do you deal with local news in your game?

i also really miss the newspapers. we need them back. @mightysprite good suggestions. the "gossip" interaction could provide local gossip and the public access channel could be utilized for local news. like you said, the mailbox already knows via neighborhood stories. (edit: what i normally do is just utilize the neighborhood stories and townie social pop-ups to build local drama/lore and i frequently hop into manage households to tailor situations for my sim to "learn about".)