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Trial delayed for former Auburn teacher charged with having sex with student

The trial for a former Auburn Adventist Academy teacher charged with having sex with one of his female…

Children ride safely in the bicycle lanes on M Street. The Bicycle Task Force recently wrapped up its work and made a series of recommendations for improvements to the city’s bike routes.

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Task force explores ways to promote a ‘bicycle city’ for Auburn

Rising gas prices, the appeal of a healthier lifestyle or simple love of the outdoors are all expected…

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Church applies for permit to use empty warehouse in Auburn

A church has asked the City of Auburn for an administrative use permit to allow use of an…

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Auburn issues bonds to help cover utility improvements

City Council members agreed unanimously Monday evening to issue two series of utility system revenue bonds to provide…

Auburn’s Lydia Taverne’s illustrations recently found the pages of a national magazine for kids.

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Dream comes true for young Auburn illustrator

Lydia Taverne has always set her heart on being an artist.

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Charges pending for Auburn burglary suspects

King County prosecutors are still deciding whether to charge three of four young men who led police on…

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State Department of Labor and Industries fines Auburn’s Ferrellgas over 2 electrocutions

The state Department of Labor and Industries has cited and fined Ferrellgas of Auburn for the accidental electrocution…

Sound Transit Chief Executive Officer Joni Earl told members of the Auburn Rotary Club recently that the tough economy has forced the organization to make difficult budgetary decisions.

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Sour economy puts Auburn’s second transit garage on ice

Auburn community leaders expected to get a second transit parking garage out of the Sound Transit 2 (ST2)…

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Auburn enters partnership with SCORE, will lease own jail to new operators

With the South Correctional Entity (SCORE) misdemeanant jail in Des Moines getting ready to begin operations next fall,…

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City of Auburn mulls budget in teeth of uncertainty

The City of Auburn builds its biennial budget around the best data available when it compiles the document.

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Election update: Fain, Roach win big

It's all over, including the shouting, but the tallying of votes for the Nov. 2 election keeps on…

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Auburn Mayor Lewis defends red light photo enforcement

The purpose of one part of Monday’s agenda of the Municipal Services Committee called for Auburn Police to…

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Confrontation leads to man being stabbed on GRCC campus

One of the players in a two-person traffic confrontation last week apparently couldn't let go of his anger…

The favorable numbers overjoy Joe Fain as he shares the moment with his fiancée

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Election update: Fain unseats Kauffman; Roach trounces Richardson

In a curtained-off corner on the second floor of the Truitt Building in downtown Auburn on election evening,…

The Auburn Environmental Park is an innovative project that seeks to create a regionally significant open space in an urbanized area that offers opportunities for wetland ecosystem restoration

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WSU students, engineers, experts go to work on Auburn Environmental Park

Bike paths, parks, organic farms, retention ponds and all-purpose open spaces should make the Auburn Environmental Park District…

An artist’s conception of Auburn’s South Division Street in the future.

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Auburn’s promenade project begins to take shape

Three years ago, City leaders were talking about remaking South Division Street into a promenade or esplanade to…

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Auburn chamber holds ‘Jobs for Main Street’ rally

If the Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise Washington's recent "Jobs for Main Street" rally in downtown…

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Auburn community loses friend, stalwart in Dick Kammeyer

Friends say Dick Kammeyer was one of Auburn's grand old men — community minded to the fingertips, good…

City and business leaders joined Walmart officials in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new store.

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Auburn welcomes new Walmart superstore

To speeches, fanfare and balloons, and with smiles lighting up the faces of 250 newly employed people, the…

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Auburn Police and Green River Community College team up to deter thieves

Eight members of the Auburn Police Department — two patrol officers, five detectives and one commander — converged…