Why do news stories sometimes look similar on neighboring towns?
News is sorted by distance from each particular the city page, with local news appearing as stories within a maximum of a 10-mile radius. When you look at adjacent towns the stories often are very similar, since you haven’t traveled very far from your previous location. In theory, by clicking on towns on the “Nearby Towns” box on a local page, a user should be able to click from one end of the country to the other, seeing the “local” news at every point along the way. As an experiment, try clicking on random states & towns from our “Local News” page (http://www.topix.net/localnews). This helps illustrate the breadth of local news that Topix.net is presenting.
