Washington Realtors are backing a proposal by Rep. Ross Hunter (D-Medina) to boost statewide funding of basic education through a levy swap that would aim to reduce the dependency of school districts on voter-approved levies.
Serena Liu of Bellevue graduated Sunday as one of five valedictorians in Dartmouth College’s class of 2014.
Eastside Heritage Center’s Bellevue Strawberry Festival is accepting applications for its Classic Auto Show, to be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 29, the second day of the two-day festival.
Outdoor dining returns becomes a popular Bellevue pastime as summer-like weather returns.
Serena Liu earned a 4.0 grade point average in pursuit of her bachelor of arts. She majored in biology and minored in economics. A Goldwater Scholarship and Kaminsky Family Fund Award financed her honors thesis in biology.
The second annual Strollin’ to Fight SIDS had raised about $12,500 by the start of the 5-K walk June 7 at the Newport High School track course. Funds raised go to the CJ Foundation for SIDS.
The hunt by police agencies in King County looking for unbuckled drivers and passengers, and cell phone using texters and talkers found plenty of those – and more.
The owner of a children’s therapy clinic in the Bel-Red corridor testified before Sound Transit Thursday, stating that one of the possible sites for the organization’s Operations and Maintenance Satellite Facility would be “devastating” to their ability to work with developmentally challenged children. Development on the site along Northeast 20th Street would displace MOSAIC Children’s Therapy Clinic and 100 other businesses.
Bellevue residents and business owners told Sound Transit on Thursday that a 25-acre maintenance facility in the city’s Bel-Red Corridor could remove them from the map permanently, and urged its board to look somewhere else — anywhere else.
Constituents protest vague wording on state-required policy for use of isolation and restraint devices on special needs students in schools.
Downtown Bellevue has a lot of room to grow, and there’s no doubt it will. Residents speaking in one of several work groups at a downtown livability open house advocated that growth not squeeze out open spaces there and finding incentives for developers to do so.
Opponents of Puget Sound Energy’s proposed Energize Eastside project spilled out of council chambers Wednesday during a Bellevue City Hall forum, which is just one part of the city’s growing involvement in the controversial undertaking.
Bellevue councilmembers say Sound Transit has been full of surprises lately, and that’s not been a good thing.Bellevue councilmembers say Sound Transit has been full of surprises lately, and that’s not been a good thing.
Baylor University student Connor Warme, originally from Bellevue, has made the dean’s academic honor list for the 2014 spring semester. Warme studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Students from Bellevue, Interlake, Newport and Sammamish high schools have been selected for the Museum of Flight’s summer residency program, where they will collaborate on a plan for a manned mission to Mars.
The Historic Flight Foundation will commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied Forces invaded Normandy, by putting veteran aircraft in the sky and over western Washington on Friday.
Warm temperatures on Monday brought kids and adults out to Bellevue’s Crossroads Park to sit on the grass and play in the water park. The water feature shoots jets of water from a variety of locations in a nautical setting including a whale. The whale, with water spouting from its blow hole, makes for a popular slide for children.
Transit ridership in Bellevue has increased 144 percent over the past decade, but Deputy Mayor Kevin Wallace found himself Monday still struggling with a master plan that calls for dedicating traffic lanes for buses.
KidsQuest is about a third of the way toward its $12.7 million fundraising goal to move its children’s museum out of Factoria and into downtown, keeping its schedule to open by fall 2015.
Bellevue councilmembers on Monday approved a compensation program for newly appointed City Manager Brad Miyake, who officially accepted the position in April after performing those responsibilities for nearly a year.