The heavy downpour early last week that besieged the state did not spare Ballard as a mudslide collapsed the freshly-paved Golden Gardens Drive Northwest, the winding wooded road between Northwest 85th Street and Golden Gardens Park.
The…MORE
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It's not a Highline Christmas without ChoralSounds
Tue, 12/11/07
We all know Christmas is for kids-and the kid in all of us.
And we also suspect that it would not really be Christmas in Highline without the annual ChoralSounds Northwest holiday concert.
This year, young people from KidSounds…MORE
ZONING UPDATE: Change would cut back on number of parking spaces
Sat, 12/08/07
Mayor Greg Nickels has proposed an update and rezone to the city's multi-family code, which includes eliminating parking requirements in urban centers and incentive zoning to bring in more affordable homes and rentals.
The changes are…MORE
Mayor challenges council on affordable housing legislation
Wed, 12/05/07
Mayor Greg Nickels has urged the Seattle City Council to take action by the end of the year on legislation he says could create hundreds of new, affordable homes for working families.
Nickels proposed the "Seattle Homes Within Reach"…MORE
Homeless camp expected here in March and April
Wed, 12/05/07
Members of Our Redeemer's Lutheran Church voted in favor of hosting Tent City 3 during a meeting on Sunday and the roving camp for the homeless is expected in Ballard during March and April next year.
Pastor Steve Grumm attended a meeting…MORE
Swedish to build outpatient center
Wed, 12/05/07
Swedish Medical Center's Ballard campus has a long history in the community and that tradition apparently will continue to grow with the hospital's Board of Directors approval of a $31.5 million project to build a new outpatient center and…MORE
Homeless numbers growing
Wed, 12/05/07
With a hood over his head and mittens to ward off the cold, Terry Cunningham sells the homeless newspaper Real Change in front of the Bartell Drugs store in Ballard and the money he earns helps him survive.
Cunningham is fortunate, after…MORE
Home Slides on Shorewood Drive
Wed, 12/05/07
A home on Cove Point Road in North Burien was struck by a massive earth slide mid-morning Tuesday following record rainfall previous day. Resident Barbara Bull was at home when a wall of mud slammed into the back of her house located below an…MORE
20 residents in Shorewood forced to move by slides
Wed, 12/05/07
About 20 residents of the Shorewood neighborhood in North Burien were forced from their home Tuesday morning after a landslide pushed a wall of mud onto the street that provides access to their property. Eight homes were evacuated. According to…MORE
