Nextdoor Opens Voting for the 2026 Fave Awards

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 10, 2026--

Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NXDR), the essential neighborhood network, has opened voting for the 2026 Fave Awards through September 30, 2026. This year's improved voting experience makes it easier for neighbors to discover and recommend local businesses — and to vote for the ones they love most.

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Neighbors across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. can vote for local gems, from their favorite restaurants to the home service providers they rely on. Winners will be recognized as this year's Fave Awards winners on and off the platform, and every neighborhood will come away with a curated list of the businesses its neighbors rely on.

For years, millions of neighbors have tapped their communities for local business recommendations on Nextdoor. This organic behavior represents nearly 30% of all content on Nextdoor, proof of how central local recommendations are to neighbors’ use of the platform. Nearly 6.6 million businesses have claimed their free Nextdoor Business Page, where they have collected recommendations and Faves (Nextdoor’s signal that a neighbor vouches for a business).

That neighbor-to-neighbor connection is what makes a Fave different from a typical online review. An online search for a contractor, a dentist, or a dog groomer can turn up pages of five-star reviews from people no one recognizes. A Fave on Nextdoor comes from a verified neighbor, someone nearby who has actually hired that contractor and is willing to vouch for them. Add up enough of them, and a business’s Faves count becomes visible proof, right on its Business Page, that real neighbors trust it enough to say so.

Businesses can build their reputation all year long by collecting Faves. The more Faves a business has, the higher it appears in the annual Fave Awards voting flow and search, increasing its chances of being recognized as a Fave Award winner each year.

"When you need a plumber or a veterinarian, you don't want the internet's opinion. You want your neighbor's," said Nextdoor CEO and Co-Founder Nirav Tolia. "The instinct of relying on a neighbor’s word-of-mouth recommendation is exactly what Faves and our annual Fave Awards bring online. It's not a star rating from a stranger. It's a real person on your street telling you who they trust, and then another, and another, until you realize your neighbors have been pointing you to the right business all along."

Past winners have seen the impact of Fave Awards recognition directly: on average, a Fave Award winner gets 32 times more views on its Nextdoor Business Page, 26 times more recommendations, and 35% more clicks on its Nextdoor ads than a business that hasn't won.

“I have used Nextdoor for years to grow my business and meet amazing clients,” said William Redding, owner of Marin Handyman in Marin, California. “I have over 300 Faves, and I have been a Fave Award winner for three years in a row. I know this recognition from Nextdoor is a big reason why my business has been growing so fast.”

Local businesses can join Nextdoor at no cost by claiming a free Business Page, then sharing their unique Fave link with customers by text, email, print, or social media. Fave Awards voting runs through September 30th. Those who earn the most votes during the voting period will be awarded with a window sticker and a trophy badge on their Business Page, along with featured placement in their neighborhood's Local Faves discovery hub. Official rules are available on the Nextdoor Help Center, and a promotional toolkit is available for businesses that want to spread the word here. To learn more about the 2026 Fave Awards, visit: https://business.nextdoor.com/en-us/small-business/fave-awards.

About Nextdoor

Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network for over 110 million verified neighbors, offering trusted local news, real-time safety alerts, neighbor recommendations, for sale and free listings, and events. Nextdoor connects neighbors to the people, places, and information that matter most in their local communities. In addition, businesses, news publishers, and public agencies use Nextdoor to share important information and engage with neighborhoods at scale. Download the app or join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com. For more information and media assets, visit: nextdoor.com/newsroom.

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CAIRO (AP) — Yemen is moving closer to a return to civil war. The escalating events in the Arab world's poorest country are closely linked to the war in Iran and global efforts to ship oil out of the Gulf region.

Here’s a look at an emerging conflict involving an Iranian-backed rebel group's efforts to keep neighboring Saudi Arabia from using a crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz, and how that could tear Yemen apart once more.

Yemen is home to over 40 million people who fear a return to the civil war that killed 150,000 and brought many others to the brink of famine in one of the world’s most sprawling humanitarian crises. A ceasefire with Yemen’s internationally recognized government and a wider coalition backed by the Saudis began in 2022.

Now that truce is buckling.

Yemen's troubles are in part because of its strategic location at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and alongside the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea. It's one of the busiest global shipping lanes and one that the world is turning to as Iran continues to target ships on the Strait of Hormuz.

The civil war left many Yemenis hungry and beyond the reach of aid. In what would be a significant advance, residents said Thursday the Houthis have now entered the key Red Sea port of Mokha, which has been held by Yemen’s internationally recognized government. If confirmed, that endangers another crucial entry point for food and other assistance.

If the Houthis take Mokha, that’s also one more step toward the Bab el-Mandeb, creating further complications for shipping on the Red Sea — and not only for the Saudis. The United States has shown signs of wanting to wrap up the Iran war and get oil-laden vessels on the move everywhere, not broaden the fight.

The ceasefire’s fragile calm held until weeks ago, when the Houthis tested a Saudi-led blockade of rebel-held areas. The Saudis struck the international airport in the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, which the Houthis called an attempt to prevent a plane carrying Houthi leaders from returning home after attending the funeral of Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Houthis already objected to the Saudis' backing of Yemeni government forces, who the rebels say have been pounding them this week with dozens of airstrikes after the rebels attacked several oil facilities and utilities in Saudi Arabia, wounding dozens of people.

Now, with the Iran war choking the Strait of Hormuz, the Houthis have a new way to inflict pain on their neighbor by declaring a blockade against Saudi Arabia and targeting its efforts to ship its oil via the Red Sea.

The Houthis' backer, Tehran, doesn’t object to causing the U.S.-allied Saudis pain as it tries to limit oil shipments from the Gulf in service of its war aims.

Among Iran’s armed proxies in the region, the Houthis have had a lower profile than Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. That, as well as their relative distance, has helped shield them from Israeli attack in the nearly three years since the war in Gaza began.

But the Houthis were quickly targeted with U.S. airstrikes when they tried to insert themselves into the regional conflict by targeting what they called Israeli-linked shipping on the Red Sea off Yemen’s west coast. Those attacks soon faded.

Now, the Houthis are back with a different target, aiming at ships and other assets of Saudi Arabia as it seeks to get its oil out to the world via the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb strait. That Red Sea corridor usually sees $1 trillion of goods move through it per year.

The Houthis are “no longer just positioned on the northern part of the western coast; they now control a much larger stretch of the coastline, bringing them closer to the areas around Bab al-Mandeb,” said Ahmed Nagi, a senior analyst on Yemen at the International Crisis Group.

For global oil consumers already worried about Iran’s attacks on vessels trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the threat to yet another global shipping lane is a flashing danger sign, especially with the price of crude oil again trading above $100 a barrel.

Anna reported from Jerusalem. Ahmed Haj in Aden, Yemen, contributed.

FILE - Members of the Yemeni al-Houthi Shiite rebel group burn an effigy of a U.S. aircraft and a Saudi flag during a demonstration against U.S. and Saudi interference in Yemen, after Friday prayer in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed), File