Students at Bellevue’s Open Window School are hoping they’ve got the right stuff to send a scientific experiment out of this world.
Bellevue Police are currently searching for three male suspects who allegedly robbed a Rite-Aid pharmacy at gunpoint on Sept. 28, and may be related to a string of other pharmacy robberies.
Police reports from Bellevue.
September 21
Piggyback bandit pounces: Officers responded to The Lodge at Bellevue Square after the suspect, nicknamed the “Piggyback Bandit,” refused to leave Red Robin. He was detained when it was learned he had a couple warrants. Reportedly, he has a habit of yelling “piggyback ride” and then jumping onto the backs of random strangers. None of the warrants were extraditable, so he was issued a notice of trespass and released.
Despite some community opposition, the Open Window School is applying to expand the enrollment cap set 13 years ago after continuously bumping that ceiling.
A toddler in a stroller was struck and killed in a crash involving three or four vehicles on 140th Ave N.E. and Bel-Red Road, police reported on Sept. 29.
A Washington State Department of Health investigation reportedly found lapses in competency training and oversight of the cleaning and sterilization processes at the Seattle Children’s Hospital clinic in Bellevue, which revealed an issue with tool cleaning last month that may have put 12,500 patients at risk for hepatitis B, C and HIV.
Canadian firm Bosa Development purchased two lots in downtown Bellevue earlier this month for $22.8 million for a planned 21-story residential tower.
After a year’s worth of work examining and improving their practices, Eastgate Public Health’s Family Planning Program received a the highest possible ranking of quality from a national organization.
The Bellevue School District announced plans recently for a new elementary school on Wilburton Hill that will serve the area’s growing number of young children.
Citizens from around Puget Sound have filled local blood donations centers in the wake of the duck boat crash, causing hour-long waits and a doubling of newly registered donors at the Bellevue location of Bloodworks Northwest.
Kicking off Bellevue Fashion Week’s tenth anniversary, designer Phuong Minh Nguyen won the top prize at the Independent Designers Runway Show. But for the first time this year, audience members also voted and chose Varsha Agarwal as their favorite independent designer.
Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril poses with a fan while “working” at the Starbucks on Northeast Eighth Street in Bellevue on Sept. 22.
The new Zara and Uniqlo retail locations at Bellevue Square will open in November and a Vince Camuto store will join the mall soon, representatives confirmed.
The Medina City Council voted to strip councilmember David Lee of the title of deputy mayor by a 4-3 vote Sept. 14. The council voted that same night to make Councilman J. Decker the deputy mayor.
Embroidered shirts, patchwork pants, beaded dresses galore fill the exhibit space for ‘Counter Couture’, a new exhibit at the Bellevue Arts Museum that is meant to capture the energy and character of the 1960s and 1970s through fashion.
Car prowls are on the rise in Bellevue, with numbers climbing through the summer and into September.
The city of Bellevue has reopened the Newcastle Beach Park swimming area after it was closed on Sept. 12 due to high bacteria levels in the water. Newcastle Beach Park is located at 4400 Lake Washington Blvd. S.E.
The state attorney general has asked the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider its Sept. 4 ruling on charter school legislation that would bring the constitutionality of popular programs like Running Start into question.
Kemper Development will receive a $526 million loan to help finance its 1.5 million-square-foot expansion of the Bellevue Collection in downtown Bellevue.
Two former federal prosecutors will conduct the fact-finding investigation into the Bellevue High School football program, the WIAA announced on Sept. 15.