I am playing several households in rotation, one week per household. I have Neighborhood Stories enabled for "Other Households", except that I have disabled "Die in Accidents". I have Neighborhood Stories disabled for "My Households".
The last few weeks, I have still been getting these Neighborhood Stories events from "My Households" when they are not currently active. I have seen Friendship Changes, Romance Changes, and Have a Baby events. Sometimes the active Sims get phone calls from my inactive Sims announcing the change. Sometimes I discover the change when I start playing that household again.
I'm on a Mac, no cc, mods removed (and then the game reset per your instructions in a response to a previous bug report).