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New upgrades don't include air conditioning. A former mayor lobbied against the planned aluminum louvers for the windows.

Albany residents stand to get better public Wi-Fi access in 2022 thanks to an Albany City Council decision Wednesday to use federal COVID-19 relief funds to upgrade its wireless network.

JENNIFER MOODY For Mid-Valley Media After the developers left, the property behind Lee and Sue Cutsforth's home on Northwest Ridders Lane was bare and bleak, scraped down to a hollow to provide fill dirt to lift North Pointe homes out of the flood plain. From their back yard, the North Albany couple could see all the way to the businesses across Hickory Street — and that wasn't really the view they had in mind. The Cutsforths gathered cones from the Douglas fir trees in her yard, watered them and kept them in Lee's mothers greenhouse until they sprouted trees big enough to...

The Albany City Council approved a new two-year budget on Wednesday but decided to postpone voting on a city services fee to help make up a $5 million shortfall.