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View MoreLaid-off Amazon engineer sells $219 Seattle transit boards
A laid-off Amazon engineer turned a birthday gift for his wife into Seattle Transit Live, a $219 LED circuit board that tracks the region's trains, ferries and water taxi in real time, with September orders already sold out.
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View MoreKing County commute costs $10,381 a year, study finds
A new analysis of Census data finds King County workers lose $10,381 a year in unpaid commute time, the steepest in Washington, as Sound Transit pursues billions in new financing and I-5 construction squeezes Ship Canal Bridge traffic.
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View MoreSeattle approves We Heart Seattle for volunteer day amid probe
Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods approved We Heart Seattle to host an encampment cleanup at the city's Show Up, Seattle! volunteer day on Sept. 26, even as the nonprofit faces two open state investigations into unsafe needle handling and its co-founder pleaded guilty to identity theft in 2025.
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View MoreFishermen's Fall Festival returns to Interbay Oct. 3
The free Fishermen's Fall Festival returns to Fishermen's Terminal in Interbay on Saturday, Oct. 3, with boat tours, survival suit races, live music, seafood and kids' activities benefiting the Seattle Fishermen's Memorial Foundation.
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View MoreBallard's Town & Country Markets celebrates 40 years Sept. 19
Town & Country Markets Ballard marks 40 years at 1400 NW 56th St. with a free community celebration Sept. 19 featuring a pickled herring contest, '80s music, and a prime rib fundraiser lunch for the Ballard Senior Center.
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View MoreQueen Anne retirement home pairs toddlers with seniors
Bayview retirement community at the base of Queen Anne Hill runs a licensed daycare for 42 children alongside 200 adult residents, one of only about a dozen such intergenerational programs in Washington state.
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View MoreBallard muralist paints Jimothy raccoon into new Salmon Bay mural
Muralist Andrew Miller is painting a new work on the Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel building in downtown Ballard, featuring hummingbirds, a fishing boat, mountains and a hidden Jimothy the raccoon — a project the property owners and Ballard Alliance organized to reduce tagging and add public art to the neighborhood.
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View MoreSeattle Black Nerd Festival doubles in size
The Seattle Black Nerd Festival returns to the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in the Central District for a free, three-day celebration of cosplay, comics, anime and gaming, with more than 1,400 registered attendees — more than double last year's inaugural crowd.
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View More6-year-old male gorilla Kitoko leaves zoo after baby gorilla delivered by C-section
A team of Providence Swedish First Hill doctors performed the first-ever gorilla cesarean section at Woodland Park Zoo in May, delivering a 5.4-pound male named Oku in one of fewer than a dozen such procedures recorded worldwide.
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View MoreFive nights of queer Nordic cinema coming to Ballard
The SEA-Nordic Film Festival runs Sept. 15–19 at Ballard's National Nordic Museum, screening a century of LGBTQ+ Nordic cinema with UW faculty-led discussions and tickets starting at $12.
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View MoreBlack & Loud Fest lands on Capitol Hill this Saturday
Black & Loud Fest, a five-year-old celebration of alternative Black artists co-founded by King Youngblood's Cameron Lavi-Jones, moves to Capitol Hill's Neumos complex on Saturday, Aug. 29, with headliner Iniko, Cyril Neville and a deep regional lineup.
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View MoreNew Pioneer Square festival fills gap left by Ballard's Freakout
Baba Obscura, a four-day, six-stage music festival organized by Baba Yaga owner Ryan Granger and Desert Daze's Phil Pirrone, brings The Black Angels, Mdou Moctar and The Gories to Pioneer Square Nov. 5–8, filling the void left by Ballard's beloved Freakout Festival.
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View MoreQueen Anne runner killed by rockfall on Mount Rainier
Bryan Digel, who met his wife Daihong Chen while running on Queen Anne Hill, recounts performing CPR for 90 minutes after a boulder struck her during a July 19 summit attempt on Mount Rainier's Disappointment Cleaver route.
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View MoreAging bolts caused Link derailment; board member demands better alerts
Two 20-year-old construction bolts shearing off a track switch caused the Aug. 1 light rail derailment at the International District/Chinatown station, Sound Transit told its board, while a board member pressed for upgraded rider communication after a 14-hour outage left passengers struggling to find shuttle buses.
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View MoreBallard and Magnolia get 6 waterfront events before Halloween
The Shilshole marina community has posted a packed calendar of free and low-cost waterfront events running from a liveaboard BBQ on Saturday, Aug. 29, through a Halloween trick-or-treat at the docks, including the free Fishermen's Fall Festival at Fishermen's Terminal on Oct. 3.
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