Albany will start repaving some of its oldest streets under a program based on a new street maintenance fee the city council approved Wednesday night. The council was split 3-3, and Mayor Alex Johnson ...

Nine years after Albany sued the engineers who designed Talking Water Gardens, the lawsuit remains pending in Linn County Circuit. But now there may be a development. Judge Michael Wynhausen had ...

Motorists driving the average speed on Santiam Road in Albany will no longer risk getting a ticket. That’s the implication of an announcement the city council got Monday night from Kayla Barber, the ...

In case you’re wanting to keep track of the project to replace the Cox Creek bridge on Waverly Drive, here’s another update. I go over that bridge every few days on my bike rides to the northeast part ...

The Briggs Building at 333 W. First Ave. is believed to be the oldest wood-framed commercial structure in downtown Albany. Now it has a restored facade complete with a replica of the historic wooden ...

Lest anyone get the wrong idea from yesterday’s story about the mess on the Cox Creek Path, that situation is the exception in Albany parks. Take Bowman Park, for instance. I had not been there for a ...

Here’s a new twist that may interest all those drivers who paid tickets for speeding on Santiam Road in Albany over the past year: The Oregon Department of Transportation says the legal speed limit ...

If you like passenger trains, you’ll like Amtrak’s new Airo trains even better. Thursday I took a ride on one of the new trains from Albany to Eugene and back. I had the phone going for a few minutes ...

The Albany Landmarks Commission Tuesday agreed that a hole in the alley-facing back wall of the Rhodes Block can be filled in. But the commission also wanted to make sure that — if you ever walked ...

Continuing with things that matter not a whole lot: Sorry to be dwelling on the balky mechanism in the clock tower at Albany Station. It’s not just that the four clocks on the tower don’t always give ...

After the state traffic engineer signed an order raising the speed limit on Santiam Road to 30 mph, why did the City of Albany issue speeding tickets based on a posted speed of 25 mph for more than a ...