What good news are you thinking of? There are so many possible candidates that I don't even...
Trezor support
https://forum.getmonero.org/4/academic-and-technical/2495/experimental-trezor-firmware-testingGUI Wallet under active development https://github.com/mbg033/monero-core
Hard fork coming up to fix mixin 0 problem
Kovri under active development to fix IP address problem https://github.com/monero-project/kovri
RingCT will be implemented sometime in 2016
Community funding of community / core projects totaling 62,788 XMR
Oh yeah, and of course, Monero a secure and fungible digital currency that can be used here and now
I am probably forgetting some myself too.