Residents seeking marriage licenses, passports, name changes and more will officially no longer be able to get those services at the Surrey Downs Courthouse, which has been torn down for a new park and the light rail expansion.
A new Bellevue College course is addressing the next wave in technology: drones.
Though California has long been talked of as the earthquake-prone part of the West Coast, scientists say it is possible that “the big one” is just around the bend for the Puget Sound area, a notion that Bellevue residents say scares them.
Thirteen years after she stood on the airport tarmac in China with her infant daughter, Grace, for whom she realized the sky would be the limit growing up in the U.S. and not an orphanage, Kelye Kneeland returned to China and immersed herself and her daughter in the life Grace narrowly bypassed.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Bellevue broke ground on a new 27,000 square foot clubhouse in Downtown Bellevue on Oct. 8, a project that has been in the works for at least a decade.
Many Bellevue residents received letters this month alerting them to overdue accounts and fines stemming from the city’s much maligned false alarm program – charges that were all false, but which residents have had difficulty remedying.
October 5
Jaywalking, then jail: An officer contacted four subjects for jaywalking. One lied about his name and refused to provide a fingerprint for identification, so he was arrested. During search incident to arrest, the officer learned the suspect’s true identity and that he had a felony warrant for identity theft and violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. He was booked into King County jail.
A 19-year-old Bellevue resident was killed when his car hit a concrete light post and a tree, splitting the car in two and sending the tree crashing on top of a vehicle that had stopped to help.
Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman has reportedly been arrested by Bellevue Police on investigation of vehicular assault and hit and run, and police said there is reason to suspect that drugs or alcohol were involved.
A Sound Transit bus caught fire on I-405 near I-90 early on Oct. 14, delaying early morning traffic but leaving no one injured due to the work of a Bellevue fire inspector onboard.
In the week since the accident that killed a Bellevue toddler, residents have questioned the use the flashing yellow lights, which are becoming increasingly common around the city. But the city maintains that flashing yellow arrows are a safe, effective traffic option.
Bellevue School District students will soon have increased access to King County Library System resources through a new partnership through that will give students special library accounts and access to library materials that they are currently lacking.
A local man has teamed up with the Downtown Action to Save Housing (DASH) to get public feedback and information to help problem-solve the city’s affordable housing issues.
Police reports from Bellevue
Meet ‘Porno Rick’: An officer contacted “Porno Rick” in his van along with some friends/customers. Rick is rumored to sell drugs to addicts near the methadone clinic in Evergreen Plaza, and allegedly has a history of watching such movies in the back of his van. They were issued trespass notices after they were seen acting suspiciously.
A brewpub will soon join the residences and offices planned for the new Spring District development in the Bel-Red corridor.
Andrea and Josh Hall were sent on an emotional rollercoaster on Aug. 21 when Andrea went into labor 11 weeks early, and the Port Angeles residents had to put their premature daughter Kennedy into an airplane alone to receive medical care at Overlake Hospital.
A man featured on “Washington’s Most Wanted” for the beating and shooting of a Monroe man was caught by Nordstrom security at Bellevue Square Mall on Oct. 9.
A distracted driver narrowly avoided injury on Oct. 6 after running a red light on Northeast Eighth Street at 112th Avenue Northeast and driving directly into oncoming traffic.
High school students may get to sleep in a little later next year after the Bellevue School Board voted Oct. 6 to approve a conditional 8:30 a.m. start time for district high schools. The new start time tentatively will begin in fall 2016.
The Bellevue City Council admitted there had been a mistake in a code application relating to parking in Old Bellevue, causing a small parking deficit.