I've wanted to do that for a long time, but players seem mostly against the idea.
Instead of a live feed of news events, I was thinking maybe just putting the previous-days (yesterday, in real time) news events so you could see some things that happened in your province.
I think some indicators of who's online would be something we could probably integrate into the live chat, when I get a province-chat built in or something. Could be something we added to the province view too.