Top 20 stories in Your Local News 2025 again were dominated by tragedies

Although last year had its successes for many, it was again the local tragedies that dominated the headlines on Your Local News.

People ask why bad news dominates the headlines, even in our publication, but the truth is that is what everybody reads. So once again, the Top 20 stores read in 2025 bear that out.

These stories were not chosen by us – they were chosen by the readers. The statistics recorded for our online publications give exactly how many times a story has been read. Sadly, most of them again reflect tragic incidents and losses that were experienced by members of our community.

We will continue to pray for healing for those who lost loved ones last year. Our hope for the community in 2026 is that we have much more upbeat and happy news to celebrate this year.

For us, the good news is that our homepage continues to be the top page read last year. It was accessed close to 139,000 of the 3.2 million times Your Local News was accessed and read. We appreciate those in the community who go to our home page for your daily news updates.

As you can see, based on the list below, most of the Top 20 news articles read were either breaking bad or sad news or updates to the breaking bad or sad news stories. However, a loud boom that had everybody wondering was at number 4, a winter storm warning was at number 6, and number 18 was the uproar over the statues that appeared around Monroe.

Top month was the last month of the year when in December 2025 Your Local News was viewed 741,560 times by 130,145 visitors for an average of 5.70 articles read by each visitor. Thank you!

Top stories read on Your Local News in 2025, beginning at Number 1.

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• UPDATE: Victim in Friday’s shooting in CVS parking lot in Loganville has passed away
• Update: Victim in last month shooting in Loganville identified
• Breaking: Loud boom and buildings shaking cause concern in and around Walton County, again
• Update: 70-year-old Monroe man dies in multi-vehicle crash on Hwy 138 Tuesday
• Update: Winter Storm Warning issued until 7 a.m. Wednesday for Gwinnett, Walton and surrounding counties
• Breaking: Walton County school employee fired after alleged racist video goes viral
• Update: Victim identified in drowning in lake at Mathews Park Sunday
• Breaking: 10-year-old struck and killed by a vehicle on Hwy 78 in Loganville Sunday night
• Breaking: Loganville man dies in overnight wrong-way crash on Hwy 78
• Update: Victim identified in fatal crash Tuesday on Social Circle Parkway
• Update: Woman injured in deadly shooting in Monroe April 19 was released from the hospital
• Breaking: Walton County teen drowns in lake at Hard Labor State Park
• Update: 71-year-old man dies in crash in Walton County Saturday
• Breaking: Fatal head-on crash in Walton County overnight shuts down SR 138 for over an hour
• Update: Arrest made in recent car theft and shooting incident at Walton County gas station
• Update: Charges pending in pedestrian crash that seriously injured a man
• Breaking: Fatal crash near Newton/Walton line shuts down I.20 west early Monday morning
• The story behind the new stationary residents around downtown Monroe
• Update: 6 a.m. Sunday, GDPS reported 9 fatalities in Thanksgiving holiday travel with 18 hours left
• Breaking: Suspected road rage incident leads to alleged shooting