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The first returns for the Nov. 5 general elections have been posted to King County Elections website. We've posted a few highlights of local interest below (full local results can be found here and statewide ballot measure results are found here…MORE

While mayoral and city council hopefuls engage in a final day blitz of campaigning and phone banking, a frenzy has been happening at the ballot dropbox outside the Ballard Branch Library.

First, we have the picture above, which shows a van…MORE

All ballots for the general elections most be returned today.

Ballots can be returned by mail or simply be dropped off in one of the drop boxes around town.

By mail, ballots must have a first class postage and be postmarked by Nov.…MORE

From Ballard High School

For the ninth straight year, students from the Ballard High School Video Production Program are winners in Fresh Film Northwest. This competitive regional festival is coordinated by the Northwest Film Center in…MORE

Mars Hill is attempting to move their headquarters out of Ballard and to Bellevue, where they say they have been seeing unexpected growth and where the church has grown to 2,500 worshippers and four Sunday services.

The move isn't without…MORE

There's no sight quite like that of Ballard on Halloween, when Pirates and Elvises and monsters of all shapes and sizes swarm our quaint, humble streets.

Ballard News-Tribune's Shane Harms took a few photos of Ballard's finest. To view…MORE

On Nov. 3, local heroes from Ballard and throughout Seattle are lacing up their running shoes to help kids at Camp Korey, a Washington camp for kids living with serious and life threatening illnesses. They will be attempting to do the NYC…MORE

From Seattle Police Department

A female suspect is seen on video entering the victim’s garage. This morning just shortly after 3:00 a.m., residents were asleep in their home in the 8300 block of 9th NW when a noise woke them up. Upon…MORE

With one fell swoop, in the timespan of a few years, 24th Ave NW has gotten a complete facelift. Ballard mainstays have fallen off one by one (or, maybe more accurately, two by two) and have been replaced by newer, fresher, more upscale places.…MORE

The Seattle Fire Department are responding to a Hazmat situation at the Ballard Bank of America according to their Twitter feed (See above). Firefighters evacuated 10 people from the building at 2010 NW Market St due to a suspicious powder in an…MORE