Ballard - News

By Shane Harms

Thursday, Oct. 4, at approximately 3:30 p.m., at the intersection of 17th Ave NW and NW Market St in Ballard a car crashed into the the building residing on the south side of Market street between a vacant store and Beverly…MORE

Haven't had a chance to say goodbye to Mark Hendricks or Kim Brandenburg yet? Next week is your chance.

The Ballard Boys and Girls Club is hosting the 8th annual barbecue and auction fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 12. The main purpose of the…MORE

Want to create a park? Or, at least, improve or maintain an existing one?

Thanks to a new microgrant program through Groundswell NW, which is funded by an anonymous donor, people can do just that, according to a press release.

The…MORE

By Val Gilmore, UW News Lab

Andrew Lee, manager of Seattle Public Utilities, told a public meeting Tuesday night that his agency did not involve the community enough in last year’s rain-garden project. “Shame on us,” Lee said. “We were in…MORE

By Elizabeth Wang

Though there wasn’t a cloud in sight, Trinity United Methodist Church celebrated the installation of its new rain garden, the largest, non-residential one of its kind, on Sept. 30.

Armed with scissors, a group of…MORE

Last Wednesday, Sept. 26, the U.S. Postal Service announced that it will not make the scheduled payment of $5.6 billion to prefund retiree health benefits, which was due Sunday, Sept. 30.

The payment was mandated by Congress under a 2006…MORE

Each year, tens of millions of gallons of untreated water from combined sewer overflow (CSO) gushes into Salmon Bay. In 2011, the number totaled 43,700,000 gallons of water, according to a report from the Washington State Department of Ecology.…MORE

The 2013-14 city of Seattle budget -- and all of the benefits and ramifications it could bring -- doesn’t end with the mayor’s proposal.

Now that the mayor has set forth his ideas, it is time for the city council to do their own…MORE

You’ve seen the new fancy-schmancy red and yellow bus. You’ve met the LED-sunglass-and-cape-wearing RapidRide man. And you’ve heard both the boasting and the mocking of what the new bus line will do (or not do) for the Ballard neighborhood.

As the BNT reported last week, King County Metro has decided to move ahead with reducing the number of stops Route 44 takes along NW Market St in order to make bus service faster and more reliable.

Officials from King County Metro have…MORE