You can use tidings to refer to news that someone tells you.
例句
He hated always to be the bearer of bad tidings...他討厭總是帶去壞消息。I dare to hope that your heart will be touched by the tidings of my survival.我奢望你在聽到我還活著的消息時心情會很激動。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
<古>消息
good tidings好消息The happy tidings soon got abroad.喜訊不久就傳開了。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. new information about specific and timely events;