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As the oldest continually operating business in Seattle, Bonney-Watson has helped a lot of families celebrate the lives of the people they loved. But over those 145 years, the way in which people hold funerals and memorial services has changed.…MORE

For the first time in his tenure, Mayor Mike McGinn has unveiled a $4.4 billion budget that features new expenditures and no cuts.

The news comes at an opportune time. Now he finally gets to unleash a goodybag full of expansions, just in…MORE

Update, Oct. 17

With the end of the government shutdown, the Ballard Locks has reopened to the public today.

The Senate voted yesterday 81-18 and the House voted 285-144 on a measure to avert a U.S. Default.

It should be…MORE

Update, Oct. 2

The owners of the boat, Bill Soderberg and Julie Tallino, are trying to save their tugboat, which is also their home, according to a fundraiser website created to gather support.

Yesterday, the Foss 300, a giant…MORE

Who’s going to live there? Where’s all the traffic going to go? Where are people going to park?

These are all concerns that are being brought up over a controversial new development at 1715 NW 58th St.

The building, which one could…MORE

From U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard is scheduled to close to all marine vessels 7:30-11 a.m., Oct. 2 and to close the large lock 8-11 a.m. Oct. 3, allowing U.S. Navy divers to prepare the Adult Salmon…MORE

An apparent suicide attempt took place in Ballard earlier this morning.

At about 8:30 this morning, multiple medic responses, 14 per rule, arrived at the scene. According to scanner chatter, two people were breathing but unresponsive and…MORE

Prudential Northwest Realty launched their new mobile app at their celebrated launch party on board the Argosy cruise ship in the salty Seattle waterfront of Elliot Bay in Puget Sound.

More than three hundred managers, brokers and staff…MORE

At 10:48 p.m., the Seattle Fire Department responded to a possible fire of a 40 ft. fishing trawler at Fishermen's Terminal (1900 W Nickerson St). A column of smoke could be seen by the Ballard Bridge.

According to scanner chatter, a drop…MORE

At 7:17 p.m., a power outage occurred in Ballard north of 85th, by Golden Gardens. About 117 customers are affected by it, according to Seattle City Light (see map here). SPU expects to restore power by 11:30 p.m.

This is the only area in…MORE