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The Heron Habitat Helpers are conducting a survey to see if people would want cameras installed to view herons in their natural habitat.

Cameras were installed in what is now a former heron habitat at the Kiwanis Ravine. Last spring the…MORE

Seattle Police are looking for a man who robbed a bank on the 8700 Block of Holman Rd about an hour ago. According to their Twitter, he escaped in a green 2005 Nissan Sentra. The suspect may have a child in the vehicle.

It was implied the…MORE

Today's disturbing news comes via the SPD Blotter:

Seattle police were called to a warehouse in the 2600 block of NW Market Street just after noon on Friday after a worker called 911 and said he had found a leg on the roof of the building…MORE

We're not sure what happened, but yesterday BNT Columnist Peggy Sturdivant spotted this car with its side bashed in over by the Market St Taco Time.

All we know is that it's a terrible reminder of when three Ballard High School graduates…MORE

From SDOT Blog

Street Maintenance staff are chip sealing many streets in Greenwood and Crown Hill this month. Chip sealing is a preventative treatment to maintain residential streets so they don’t deteriorate into expensive reconstruction…MORE

While riding to Ballard via the Ship Canal Trail, I had to stop at the Ballard Bridge when a construction vehicle was blocking the way. He was just pulling out, and it's not a big deal for bicyclists usually, but it gave me a little bit of time…MORE

From King County

To protect public health and the environment, King County is continuing to build a new 85-inch siphon pipe under Salmon Bay between the Ballard and Interbay areas of Seattle. The project will prevent sewer overflows into…MORE

Last year, PARK(ing) Day landed on kind of a drizzly day, but it didn't stop the Ballard News-Tribune from playing Battleship with quirky local Marcia Wiley on 22nd Ave NW outside of the Ballard Starbucks.

But besides the Battleship/snack…MORE

A reader reported to us that a suspicious woman was seen at around 10:45 a.m., Aug. 15, casing houses on 7th Ave NW and NW 70th St. The reader, who we happen to know isn't the bashful sort, confronted her after she exited a neighbor's driveway.…MORE

By Mayor Mike McGinn

Editor's note: Central Ballard has been included as one of the first 14 neighborhoods that will be connected to fiber broadband via Gigabit Squared, which will bring speeds up to 1 gigabit per second for $80 a month.…MORE