Homelessness remains a problem in Auburn and throughout King County.
But people who try to do something about it every day sounded an upbeat note for the City Council recently.
Prosecutors on Thursday charged an Auburn man with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of 48-year-old Thomas J….
The King County Medical Examiners office has identified the man fatally shot early Tuesday in the parking lot of the north end Top Foods at 1702 Auburn Way N. as Thomas J. Bennett, 48, of Auburn.
With some parts of the state suffering a 30-percent high school dropout rate, the Washington Council for High School and College Relations recently decided to do something about it.
King County Prosecutors last week charged three alleged gang members with conspiracy to commit murder for a plot to kill three members of a rival gang who had allegedly assaulted them March 15 at a bus stop in Auburn.
A man was shot to death in front of his son early Tuesday morning after a dispute in the parking lot of the Auburn Top Foods store at 1702 Auburn Way N.
Gov. Chris Gregoire returned to her hometown Monday to sign a package of education reform bills into law and a bill to protect Green River Valley businesses from catastrophic flood losses.
Now that the City departments of Public Works, Planning and Finance have moved across North Division Street to the new 1 Main Street Professional Center, empty space abounds at City Hall.
Firefighters from the Valley Regional Fire Authority fought a fire in a vacant, single-story wood frame house at 1027 12th St. NE in Auburn last Saturday.
The back fence and garbage cans of one Harvey Road business have been tagged repeatedly with graffiti — in this case, clearly the mark of gang wannabes hot and eager to prove their mettle.
There were smiles a plenty to go around at the Auburn Food Bank at the tallying of the totals for the fourth annual Auburn School District all-school food drive.
To move forward with the proposed $6 million South Division Street Promenade project, the City of Auburn is seeking proposals from qualified consulting firms to provide professional services for design and construction engineering.
The King County Library System will expand the 10-year-old Auburn Library in the Les Gove Park campus.
Students in Auburn and throughout Washington state sat for the High School Proficiency Exam for the first time this week.
A reluctant Auburn City Council on Nov. 17, 2008 slapped a six-month moratorium on all construction in flood plains within the city’s boundaries, as identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s 100-year floodplain.
Making a go of a small business is always tough.
But in this battered and battering economy, tough doesn’t begin to tell the tale. Start ups come and go with sad regularity.
But Colleen Barry, owner, chief cook and bottle washer of the Kitsch-en at 401 A Place in downtown Auburn, is making it work.
On Wednesday, Barry, her customers and staff whooped it up for the one-year anniversary of the popular downtown eatery just north of Safeway.
The woman stepped onto the bus and tried to explain what the affordable housing and programs offered by the Federal Way-based Multi-Service Center have done for her, how far she’s come – but deep emotion checked her.
Cheryl Creson only has to look out the window of her barbershop at East Main toward the parking lot between the street and Safeway to get upset.
I just caught the latest installment of “Am I Really Sorry?,” that whacky new form of entertainment that’s sweeping the nation.
Funding of the Barrier Free Playground at Les Gove Park is more than two-thirds of the way home.
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