The sticking points in Albany, a city of about 58,000 people in the Willamette Valley that sits just off Interstate 5 south of Salem and east of Corvallis, are virtually the same as they were in Portland,

Public schools are closed throughout Albany after teachers in the Greater Albany Public School District went on strike Tuesday after the teachers union and the district failed to reach an agreement over resource funding,

Hundreds of teachers from Greater Albany Public Schools are going on strike Tuesday morning after failed negotiations overnight.

Hundreds of Greater Albany Public School teachers will begin picketing outside all of the 21 schools in the district on Tuesday morning, starting at 7:45 a.m.