During a contentious meeting on May 3, the Bellevue School Board issued a resolution acknowledging the “evidence of misconduct and insufficient oversight” found by WIAA investigators and indicated that long-time coach Butch Goncharoff could be banned from the program for two years.
A Bellevue firefighter stands in front of a home on Northeast 35th Street on May 3 after extinguishing a structure fire. A women was rescued from the home, and no injuries were reported.
The first case of Zika virus infection — which has been linked to prominent birth defects in newborns — has been diagnosed in King County, health officials said Wednesday.
A Renton man and his girlfriend are facing multiple felony charges after allegedly robbing four escorts at gunpoint in Bellevue over the past month.
After a tumultuous year, Bellevue High School is experiencing some administrative changes.
A former Bellevue High School football player has filed a lawsuit against the school district alleging that they did not following state laws and district policies when he suffered not one, but two concussions in the span of a week, leaving him with long-term injuries.
A Bellevue massage therapist is facing multiple charges after three clients allege he groped them, spoke about having sex with them and in one case, purposefully rubbed a client’s arm against his genitals.
Residents handed over more than 670 pounds of unwanted medications this weekend, more than double the amount they normally do during their semi-annual drug take-back.
A note to our readers: We’ve heard your concerns about the Bellevue Police Blotter, which has not run since April 1. Fear not! The blotter is taking a short hiatus while the police department updates its procedures, and will return soon.
Residents flocked to Bellevue’s annual sheep shearing event at Kelsey Creek Park on April 30, 2016
Bellevue is bustling with parks, movie theaters, fine dining, bars and shopping. The streets are stuffed with coffee shops, food trucks, a museum and — in a few weeks — multiple farmers markets.
Siegfried Semrau was director of the Bellevue Parks Department for 16 year, from 1961 until 1977.
A fact-finding investigation into the Bellevue High School football program uncovered various “significant and long-standing violations of Washington Interscholastic Activities Association rules,” including some that were identified, but went unreported last spring — charges that the school district says it is taking very seriously, but about which it has reservations.
More than 1,600 marijuana plants from two residential, illegal pot growing operations were uncovered by the Eastside Narcotics Task Force and Bellevue Police Department on April 20.
Records released by the city of Bellevue on Tuesday reveal that the demotion of the longtime deputy chief of police came after months of unacceptable performance and a tension-filled exchange regarding the city’s False Alarm Reduction Program and criticism of a city council member.
It was 9 p.m. in Downtown Bellevue and I was scouring parking stalls with one of Bellevue’s finest, searching for a grey sedan that a 68-year-old resident had reportedly driven to an optometrist appointment, parked and then was unable to locate afterwards.
The Frederick W. Winters House was built in 1929 by Frederick and Cecilia Winters.
The Bellevue Fire Department’s Public Educator Heather Wong, right, reads a book about Emery the emergency penguin to young children at Bellevue Library on April 19. The event was part of an ongoing series by King County 911 to teach children how and when to dial 911 in emergencies. The event was inspired by Austin Holdt, a nine-year-old King County resident who dialed 911 when his grandmother fell unconscious in 2015, and was able to calmly relay information to the 911 call-taker.
As police search for the suspects who drove their car into the West Coast Armory in Bellevue last weekend and stole an undisclosed number of weapons, other gun stores are reviewing their security measures.
