diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/Admin/DashboardController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/Admin/DashboardController.php
index f5a76b5f..5b954e3d 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/Admin/DashboardController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/Admin/DashboardController.php
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 namespace App\Http\Controllers\Admin;
 
 use Illuminate\Http\Request;
-use Flash;
-use Response;
+use Feed;
+
 
 class DashboardController extends BaseController
 {
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ class DashboardController extends BaseController
      */
     public function index(Request $request)
     {
-        return view('admin.dashboard');
+        Feed::$cacheDir = storage_path();
+        Feed::$cacheExpire = '5 hours';
+
+        $feed = Feed::loadRss(config('phpvms.feed_url'));
+        return view('admin.dashboard', [
+            'feed' => $feed,
+        ]);
     }
 }
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 856d0fdd..71339603 100755
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
         "webpatser/laravel-uuid": "^2.0",
         "chrisbjr/api-guard": "^4.0",
         "spatie/laravel-fractal": "^4.01",
-        "composer/semver": "^1.4"
+        "composer/semver": "^1.4",
+        "dg/rss-php": "^1.2"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 0048fb70..af246652 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "b3b902af0d22fe654922a05444feedb8",
+    "content-hash": "2ab8f5fa4fb05e2eddd93396aadd3f94",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "anlutro/l4-settings",
@@ -288,6 +288,48 @@
             ],
             "time": "2016-08-30T16:08:34+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "dg/rss-php",
+            "version": "v1.2",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/dg/rss-php.git",
+                "reference": "b33661748d89d8c0c288e8d86feada6018d05031"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/dg/rss-php/zipball/b33661748d89d8c0c288e8d86feada6018d05031",
+                "reference": "b33661748d89d8c0c288e8d86feada6018d05031",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.2.2"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "classmap": [
+                    "src/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "BSD-3-Clause"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "David Grudl",
+                    "homepage": "http://davidgrudl.com"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "RSS & Atom Feeds for PHP is a very small and easy-to-use library for consuming an RSS and Atom feed",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/dg/rss-php",
+            "keywords": [
+                "atom",
+                "feed",
+                "rss"
+            ],
+            "time": "2015-07-02T11:54:05+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "doctrine/annotations",
             "version": "v1.4.0",
diff --git a/config/app.php b/config/app.php
index cd0c45b8..cbf29075 100755
--- a/config/app.php
+++ b/config/app.php
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ return [
         'Auth' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth::class,
         'Blade' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade::class,
         'Cache' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache::class,
+        'Carbon' => \Carbon\Carbon::class,
         'Config' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config::class,
         'Cookie' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cookie::class,
         'Crypt' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt::class,
diff --git a/config/phpvms.php b/config/phpvms.php
index 8bb7f39d..4a4a2df3 100644
--- a/config/phpvms.php
+++ b/config/phpvms.php
@@ -25,4 +25,10 @@ return [
      */
     'currency' => 'dollar',
 
+    /**
+     * Misc Settings
+     */
+
+    'feed_url' => 'http://forum.phpvms.net/rss/1-announcements-feed.xml/?',
+
 ];
diff --git a/phpvms.iml b/phpvms.iml
index 68160d53..70df69dc 100644
--- a/phpvms.iml
+++ b/phpvms.iml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     <exclude-output />
     <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/chrisbjr/api-guard" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/dg/rss-php" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/dompdf/dompdf" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/ellipsesynergie/api-response" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/jeremeamia/SuperClosure" />
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@
         <CLASSES>
           <root url="file://$APPLICATION_HOME_DIR$/bin" />
           <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/chrisbjr/api-guard" />
+          <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/dg/rss-php" />
           <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/dompdf/dompdf" />
           <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/ellipsesynergie/api-response" />
           <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/jeremeamia/SuperClosure" />
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@
         <SOURCES>
           <root url="file://$APPLICATION_HOME_DIR$/bin" />
           <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/chrisbjr/api-guard" />
+          <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/dg/rss-php" />
           <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/dompdf/dompdf" />
           <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/ellipsesynergie/api-response" />
           <root url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/vendor/jeremeamia/SuperClosure" />
diff --git a/resources/views/admin/dashboard.blade.php b/resources/views/admin/dashboard.blade.php
index b46773a9..3ab88b09 100644
--- a/resources/views/admin/dashboard.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/admin/dashboard.blade.php
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 @extends('admin.app')
 
 @section('content')
-    <section class="content-header">
-        <h1 class="pull-left">Dashboard</h1>
-    </section>
+    <section class="content-header"></section>
     <div class="content">
         <div class="clearfix"></div>
 
@@ -29,6 +27,22 @@
                 </div>
             </div>
         </div>
+
+        <div class="box box-primary">
+            <div class="box-body">
+                <div class="col-sm-12">
+                    <h3>announcements</h3>
+                    @foreach($feed->item as $item)
+                        <div>
+                            <strong>{!! $item->title !!}</strong>
+                            <p>{!! $item->description !!}</p>
+                            <p class="pull-right">{!! Carbon::now()->diffForHumans(new Carbon($item->pubDate), true) !!}</p>
+                        </div>
+                        <div class="clearfix"></div>
+                    @endforeach
+                </div>
+            </div>
+        </div>
     </div>
 @endsection