Albany’s Periwinkle Bikepath is almost half a century old, as the wooden sign on Oak Street reminds us. Until I looked at the archived stories in hh-today.com, I did not realize that I seem to be ...

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 ...

Something neighbors are calling the Swan Lake Plant Monster is suffocating the pair of lakes in Albany’s Santiam Neighborhood. The city council heard about it Wednesday from Mike Harrison, an Albany ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cycling along Albany’s Cox Creek Path the last few weeks, I’ve ridden past and through groups of people camping on and near the path. On Friday the people were all gone. I don’t know where they all ...

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 ...

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 ...