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“Your seat’s ready for you.”

These are likely the words you’ll here upon entering Bad Albert’s if you were an old regular. Until last year, the neighborhood bar and grill settled the spot on the corner of 5100 Ballard Ave for 17 years,…MORE

For the 9th year now the Seafair Clowns have conducted their School Supply Giveaway and Friday September 6th was the day for students from White Center's Roxhill Elementary.

The 450 students at the school got a visit not just from the…MORE

A high flying trapeze emporium is the setting for the fundraiser for WestSide Baby on Sept. 27. Emerald City Trapeze Arts at 2702 6th Ave. South is a new venue for the organization's fund raising efforts and this event will feature live music…MORE

Friday, Sept. 6

Ballard High School's first game of football

What: Ballard High School kicks off the season in the same fashion as it did last year, playing against crosstown rival Bishop Blanchet.

Where: Bishop Blanchet…MORE

Ballard's brewery boom seems to just keep booming. As we await the arrivals of Stoup Brewing and Bad Jimmy's, KUOW gives a shoutout to our bustling "Brewery District."

KUOW's Joshua McNichol's, a Ballard resident who has contributed a few…MORE

Jordan Adams got her dog Harold 10 years ago as a stray (he's about 13 now). He's a Great Pyrenees mix she said and she found him in South Dakota on the Pineridge Indian Reservation where she was doing small construction work. She was 15 years…MORE

In late August the King County Prosecutor’s Office proclaimed “For the first time in decades, King County is experiencing a surplus in jail beds,” with an estimated daily population of 1700 inmates in 2013, down from an average of 2900 in 2000…MORE

After lots of talking, scouting, planning, designing, more talking, debate, some controversy and a summer's worth of construction, the NW 58th St Ballard Greenway will have it's grand opening on Saturday, Sept. 7, from 2 to 5 p.m.

Jennifer…MORE

By Maggie Nicholson

In 1934, twins were born to a Swedish couple named Axel and Anna. Anna died in childbirth, and Axel gave the boy and girl up for adoption. They were taken in by Dietrich and Peggy Schmitz. The process was different in…MORE

By Clay Eals A dozen years later, Dean Keppler reels at the memory. His eyes well up. His voice chokes as he talks haltingly, reverently and, in the end, almost dazedly in trying to describe the indescribable. “It all just happened,” he says,…MORE