Auburn News

The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 193 requests for service between Nov. 25 and Dec. 1, including the following: Car fire: 8:30 a.m., .

Theft: 10:50 a.m., 901 Auburn Way N. Bad persons stole cash from the purses of two patients of a local medical facility while said purses were unattended in an exam room.

The Auburn City Council on Monday approved a request to put the proposed joint American-Vietnamese veterans war memorial in Les Gove Park.

Firefighters from the Valley Regional Fire Authority responded just after 5 o'clock this morning to a report of smoke and flames in one unit of a duplex at 121 T Street Southeast in Auburn.

As part of a statewide initiative to preserve federally subsidized rental housing, the King County Housing Authority completed the purchase on Dec. 2 of four Section 8 "expiring use" properties in King County, including Northwood Square, a 24-unit complex that houses low-income families with children in Auburn, 529 8th St NE.

More than 2A1 2 years after his teenage son was slain in front of him, an Auburn man who starting shooting in that moment of rage will soon be headed home.

Pioneer Elementary School students gather in front of the school on Tuesday, urging residents to support Pioneer's bid to win a grant in a national online competition.

Three men are now charged in what's been dubbed the "My Gun's Bigger" robbery attempt at Highland Park's Morning Star Market .

Antonio F. Castro pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Monday to shooting and seriously wounding two men on Nov. 16 in the parking lot of the Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn.

Page 1 of 2 OCZ, a pioneering SSD maker that has fallen on hard times over the past couple of years, has signed a deal to be acquired by Toshiba.

Proceeds benefitted the Auburn Food Bank. "We had almost 60 people attend and raised $1,260 and two barrels of food," said Ruth Stover, owner and operator of Corestar Pilates.

Mayor Pete Lewis and Mayor-elect Nancy Backus have worked together to combine the Planning and Public Works departments to create "greater efficiencies in the community development and engineering infrastructure."

Celebrate the holidays with a free Auburn tradition, The Red, White and Blue Holiday Concert, set for 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8 at the Auburn Performing Arts Center.

Benjamin Gran of Auburn pleaded guilty in September to receiving and possessing child pornography based an investigation that began four years ago in the Netherlands.

Funny money: 2:58 p.m., 1201 Auburn Way N. An employee of a local electronics store complained that a customer had just paid for some goods with a fake $100 bill, a discovery the employee made only after the customer left the store.

With the help of a grant from The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's education department, the Auburn Actors' Guild brings Shakespeare to Auburn High School for a special appearance.

But it was enough to declare Backus the official mayor-elect of Auburn and the first woman ever to win that position.

Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis was honored as Member Emeritus during the November Sound Cities Association Annual Meeting and Dinner.

Hundreds of independent bookstores throughout the country hosting local authors on Small Business Saturday this weekend, thanks to a movement called Indies First.

Auburn's red light photo-enforcement program has worked so well at slicing the number of traffic violations in the seven years that have elapsed since it began that today it is running at a deficit.