# CityNews — Breaking News & Local Stories

> Local news, breaking alerts, community stories, and multimedia content. (iPhone/iPad app by Rogers Media.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/citynews/id348183249 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Rogers Media](https://appshunter.io/developer/313847071)
- Category: News, Weather
- Price: Free
- Rating: 3.30/5 from 3 App Store ratings · 73 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 44 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2010-01-18
- Data updated: 2026-09-04
- Monetization: ad-supported
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/citynews/id348183249/reviews.md

## What is CityNews?

Introducing the all NEW CityNews app: your best source for local news!
Rebuilt from the ground up, the app is tailored to provide the breaking news and community focused information you need, when you need it.

Key Features:
Regional Selection: Customize your news feed based on one of nine locales across Canada, and stay connected to your community with news that matters to you.

Notifications: Never miss a crucial update with personalized push notifications. Stay in the loop with breaking news, traffic, and weather alerts – all delivered straight to your device.

Bookmarking: Never lose track of important stories again. Our intuitive bookmarking feature allows you to save articles for later reading. 

24/7 Video Streaming: Experience our visual storytelling like never before with our 24/7 video stream. Watch breaking news, interviews, and on-the-ground reporting in real-time. 

Live Radio: For those on the go, enjoy live radio updates and discussions. Tune in while commuting, exercising, or multitasking, and stay informed without missing a beat.

Contests: Participate in contests, and stand a chance to win exclusive prizes. It's more than just news!

Weather Updates: Plan your day with accurate and up-to-date weather information, ensuring you're prepared for whatever Mother Nature has in store.

Download the app now and Discover a great new way to stay informed, entertained, and connected.

This is CityNews, Everywhere.

## Key features

- Regional news selection
- Personalized push notifications
- Article bookmarking
- 24/7 video streaming
- Live radio updates
- Contests and prizes
- Weather updates

## What do users think of CityNews?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 👍 Nice app for radio
- 👍 Good experience so far
- 👍 Like the app
- 👍 Very Nice App
- 👍 Like news and weather

**Cons**

- 🐛 Slow to connect
- 🐛 Constantly cutting out
- 🐛 App is inoperable
- 🐛 Unable to update
- 🐛 Phone too old for update
- 🐛 Nowhere to find old version
- 🐛 Incredibly slow to load
- 🐛 Blank screen
- 🐛 News unavailable
- 🐛 Slow to update stories
- 🐛 Buggy app
- 🐛 Flashing when contacting
- 🐛 Glitchy
- 🐛 App is days behind
- 🐛 Not updated on weekends
- 🐛 No story on major closures
- 🐛 Unable to submit reports
- 🐛 Halifax feed doesn't load
- 🐛 Low volume on reports
- 🐛 Unable to upgrade app
- 🐛 Older iOS not supported
- 🐛 Rogers only
- 🐛 No world/business news
- 🐛 Too many ads
- 🐛 Resets to top of page
- 🐛 Pauses with Waze
- 🐛 Voiceover issues
- 🐛 App fails to update
- 🐛 Does not work
- 🐛 Old news
- 🐛 No gas price history
- 🐛 Unusable on CarPlay
- 🐛 Cannot update
- 🐛 Articles inaccessible with Voiceover
- 🐛 Not good
- 🐛 New app garbage
- 🐛 Pages refresh constantly
- 🐛 Videos close quickly
- 🐛 No widget
- 🐛 Crashes
- 🐛 Cannot connect to Bluetooth
- 🐛 Articles refresh randomly
- 🐛 New app is horrible
- 🐛 App crashes on iPad video
- 🐛 New app stinks
- 🐛 Terrible app
- 🐛 Radio player not working
- 🐛 App almost unusable
- 🐛 Story jumps back to top
- 🐛 Cannot type comments
- 🐛 Volume control does not function
- 🐛 No widget support
- 🐛 No volume control in CarPlay
- 🐛 App not updating
- 🐛 Volume garbled and blasting
- 🐛 Ridiculous app
- 🐛 Update every time I load
- 🐛 No traffic button
- 🐛 Update fail
- 🐛 Keeps telling me to update
- 🐛 Latest update is a fail
- 🐛 iOS 14 not supported
- 🐛 Poor functionality
- 🐛 Very low volume
- 🐛 Program won't continue after call
- 🐛 Segments duplicating
- 🐛 Segments not available
- 🐛 Clunky and slow
- 🐛 App slow after merger
- 🐛 Stories lag
- 🐛 Enter contest loop
- 🐛 Jumps around constantly
- 🐛 Links don't open suggested
- 🐛 Biased news reporting
- 🐛 New app design terrible
- 🐛 One-sided liberal views
- 🐛 Not working after updating

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Takes a while to connect
- Constantly cutting in and out
- Forcing to constantly reconnect
- Unable to play app
- Telling to update to new version
- Phone too old to update
- Nowhere to find old version
- Incredibly slow to load
- Shows blank screen
- Top stories unavailable
- Slow to update new stories
- Reporters sometimes poor grammar
- App keeps bugging out
- Flashing when trying to contact
- Cannot enter giveaway details
- App is 2 or 3 days behind
- Gas updates stay on same date
- Calgary news not updated on weekends
- No story about major highway closure
- Unable to submit report
- Halifax feed doesn't load
- Just a blank page
- Volume on reports is lower
- Unable to upgrade to latest app version
- Older iPad does not allow iOS upgrade
- Almost no news stories for world and business
- Almost all advertising
- Goes back to the beginning every 10-15 minutes
- App always wants to re-set to top-of-page
- Sent back to the beginning when scrolling
- App pauses when Waze gives navigation instructions
- App pauses when Waze provides instructions on CarPlay
- Only app that has this issue
- Issues with Voiceover screen reader
- Unable to read any updates
- One thing isn't broken with Voiceover, it's another
- App fails to update
- Widget asks every time to update
- Simply does not work
- Mainly features out of date snippets
- Historical values not found in app
- App sounds horrible & bad quality on CarPlay
- Routes audio through voice command channel
- Sounds like AM radio
- Cannot use app without updating
- Cannot update it
- Articles are inaccessible with Voiceover
- New app is garbage
- Every page keeps refreshing
- Scrolls back up to the title
- Videos keep closing
- No widget anymore
- Crashes
- Can’t connect to Bluetooth speaker
- Articles refresh randomly while reading
- Losing your spot
- App crashes on iPad video section
- New app is useless
- Keeps closing
- Live radio player not available
- Story keeps jumping back to the top
- Super annoying
- Typing comments keeps jumping back
- Erasing comments before submission
- Volume control does not function
- No widget on iPhone
- No volume control in Apple CarPlay
- All on at top volume
- CarPlay is a total disaster
- App is not updating
- Told to update every time
- Volume garbled and blasting
- Impossible to listen to
- Volume reduced to ridiculously low level
- Update every time I load
- Need to update every time I listen
- No traffic button
- Takes me to the app to do the update
- Takes me to the update page
- Keeps telling me to update
- Nowhere to press update
- Top stores were from Quebec
- Fewer stories show per tab
- Hardly any new stories
- No support for iOS 14
- Program won't continue once done
- Goes silent
- Have to mess around to get it going again
- Volume output is SUPER LOW
- Can't hear it clearly
- Segments are frequently duplicating
- Segments I want to hear aren't available
- Newest update has made iPad experience slow
- Non responsive on iPad and iPhone
- No more Watch app
- Dropped support for Apple Watch companion
- App has been slow since merger
- Stories lag as you scroll
- Contest for Lotto 649 not working
- Goes into a loop
- Gas update should have stayed
- Jumps around constantly
- Links will open one story but not suggested ones
- Have to navigate back to Home Screen
- Select article before it jumps back
- Gone on for over a month
- No one seems to care
- Constantly loads to the top of the page
- Has been like this for at least 15 months
- Used to be able to hit Traffic link and hear report
- Traffic link does nothing
- Used to show temperature on top right
- App resets itself back to the top
- Very annoying
- App constantly refreshes to top of page
- Minimal scrolling down headlines
- Not reading the news at all is better
- Done with this piss poor development
- Screen keeps jumping back to beginning
- Reviewing headlines
- Ads load, scroll goes to top
- Cannot read stories
- Has been like this for a few months
- New app design is terrible
- Can’t read the full headline
- One-sided liberal views
- Not working after updating

**Most requested features**

- Increase app volume
- Make app continue playing audio in background
- Lower iOS requirement
- Add Apple Watch support
- Integrate into Apple News
- Add Apple CarPlay integration
- Add widget support
- Fix volume control for CarPlay
- Fix volume for podcasts
- Add traffic button
- Show temperature on top right
- Fix Voiceover accessibility
- Add historical gas price values
- Fix CarPlay audio routing
- Restore old app version
- Add Apple Watch companion app
- Fix Lotto 649 contest entry

## Recent user reviews (10 of 73)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/citynews/id348183249/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Streaming Radio Gone

*2026-08-27, version 8.9.0*

Can no longer stream the news 1130 radio station. Obsolete app. Delete.

### 1/5 — You are ridiculous

*2026-08-04, version 8.7.0*

Why did you take off news 95.7???? If you need to save money, guess what so do I! Give me back my daily new! If you’re hurting for cash, off your music station, we have enough of those!

### 1/5 — Errors errors errors

*2026-07-13, version 8.7.0*

So many typographical errors, run-on sentences, and incorrect information. Today’s article says there was a train derailment on the Bow River, but it’s not the Bow River at all. When you try to submit a correction, nothing happens and it never gets submitted. You fill out all the information and it just takes you to the top of the page when you click submit, with all the information in the fields you just filled out vanished. 

It’s like a bunch of teens run this site.

### 1/5 — Drop offs

*2026-05-08, version 8.7.0*

This app takes a while to connect. You have to go through multiple steps in order to get to the radio, then it’s constantly cutting in and out or cutting out altogether, forcing you to constantly reconnect. Sometimes it feels like you’re better off just turning on a radio (if you still have one) instead of the app.

### 1/5 — Poor Advice-update to new version…😕

*2026-03-23, version 8.1.6*

Unable to play the”City News” app as it was telling me to UPDATE to the “new version”. Needless to say as old version was inoperable, I tried to UPDATE to the new version and to my surprise I got a message telling me my phone was to old and I would have to download the old version.😳 Guess what? Nowhere could I find an “old version” to download. 😡

### 5/5 — Nice app

*2026-02-04, version 8.5.0*

Just tried the app, listening to the radio and breakfast challenge works for me. So far it’s a good experience.

### 4/5 — Please increase app volume

*2026-02-01, version 8.5.0*

I like this app. I just find it very low in volume. If you could make it significantly louder that would be great!

### 1/5 — So slow

*2025-12-27, version 8.5.0*

Used to be my go-to for a quick update. Glitches all the time and incredibly slow to load 😕

### 1/5 — City News aweful

*2025-12-26, version 8.5.0*

The app is not working correctly just shows blank screen

### 2/5 — News unavailable?

*2025-12-26, version 8.5.0*

Top stories Vancouver not working for the past 2 days 🤷‍♀️

## Frequently asked questions about CityNews

### What does the CityNews app do?

The app provides local news and community-focused information. It delivers breaking news, traffic, and weather alerts through personalized push notifications. Users can also bookmark articles for later reading and access 24/7 video streaming and live radio.

### What are the key features of the app?

Key features include regional selection to customize news feeds, personalized push notifications for alerts, bookmarking for saving articles, 24/7 video streaming, live radio updates, contests, and weather updates.

### Is the CityNews app free to use?

Yes, the app is free to download and use. It is supported by advertisements, as indicated by the presence of ads.

### What regions does the app cover?

The app allows users to customize their news feed based on one of nine locales across Canada. This ensures users receive news that is relevant to their specific community.

### How can I stay updated with breaking news?

You can stay updated with breaking news through personalized push notifications delivered directly to your device. The app also offers 24/7 video streaming and live radio for real-time updates and on-the-ground reporting.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 8.9.0 — 2026-08-27

- Fixed player bugs causing delays to livestream

### 8.7.0 — 2026-04-30

- Addressed issues related to livestream video playback
- Corrected webview errors causing page reloads
- Improved video page content presentation
- Fixed bugs with background video playback
- UI and Stability improvements
- Updated weather information system

### 8.5.0 — 2025-11-18

- Apple CarPlay Support
- Improved push alert media playback
- Various bug fixes

### 8.4.0 — 2025-07-30

- Adjustments to the video and livestream experience
- Additional notification preferences
- Various bug fixes

### 8.3.0 — 2025-02-20

- Improved audio show playback and listing presentation
- Corrected radio schedule presentation
- Adjusted various audio interaction buttons
- Various Bug Fixes

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