While parking solutions are needed for Old Bellevue, the city council on Monday agreed the problem won’t be resolved by delaying a July start for Downtown Park upgrades.
A Bellevue park with a controversial title should be renamed before the end of May, and the city parks department has already received more than 40 proposals.
Last week’s opening of a Chick-fil-A in Bellevue has been causing major congestion near the new restaurant, which Bellevue Police are tackling today with a new traffic management plan.
A Bellevue resident found what police believe was a live grenade from World War II while going through their deceased father’s attic on Monday.
The Greater Seattle area is well known for having some of the worst commuter traffic in the country, but a study by online consumer company NerdWallet finds those destined for Bellevue suffer less than most.
Newport High School student Greg Chu will screen a short film he made last summer with fellow members of Reel Queer Youth’s video production training camp for LGBTQ youth and allies during the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle this month.
The Bellevue City Council begrudgingly adopted a resolution on April 6 that complies with new Federal Communications Commission rules that allow wireless facilities to expand to heights and widths City Attorney Lori Riordan cautioned could change the city’s landscape but would be worse if the council did nothing.
Bill Pace has been selling fruit since 1968, having first bought an orchard in Yakima from his father when the bank came calling. He would take his peaches to Bellevue — a three-hour drive — after finishing his day job, later adding apples and nectarines. When the city needed someone to operate and market its blueberry farm on Bellevue Way, Pace took it over in 2000, only stopping last year when the rent became too high. About three years ago he opened Bill Pace Fresh Fruit and Produce in the Newport Hills Shopping Center.
A small group of Civil War reenactors with the Washington Civil War Association, representing Company C of the 4th United States Infantry, came together at Wildwood Park in Bellevue on Thursday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House.
The North Sound Metro SWAT Team arrested three people this morning at the Woodridge Apartments in Factoria, who are suspected of burglarizing several self-storage lockers in Kirkland last month and using stolen personal and financial information to create fake IDs, acquire credit cards and make numerous purchases at stores around the region.
Bellevue College is taking its first steps to creating student housing on campus, with plans of opening a 350-room dormitory in the fall of 2018.
The Bellevue Police Department is asking the public’s help in finding a missing 33-year-old woman who may be confused about where she is since last being seen Monday near her sister’s home on the 200 block of 152nd Place Southeast.
New Bellevue Police Chief Steve Mylett said Monday he expects his first 90 days leading the department to be a lot of listening to his staff and the community, adding he is excited about the law enforcement agency’s future.
King County Executive Dow Constantine and Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci joined together over the Interstate 90 bridge on Monday to announce a tentative agreement with Sound Transit for East Link light rail service that will save the city of Bellevue $60 million in contingency costs following construction of a downtown tunnel.
The 30-year-old Newcastle man alleged to have stabbed a Bellevue woman to death inside her downtown apartment on March 31 has been extradited from California and booked into jail in King County. Song Wang is scheduled for arraignment at 8:30 a.m. April 30 in King County Superior Court. His bail is set at $5 million.
Puget Sound Energy will begin work to relocate a gas line beneath 120th Avenue Northeast near where Northeast Fourth Street will be extended between Best Buy and Home Depot on Monday, causing lane closures for up to 10 working days.
The city of Bellevue received the American Public Works Association — Washington State Chapter’s 2015 Project of the Year award in the environmental category on Thursday for the new bridge it constructed on Coal Creek Parkway that allowed for the removal of a small culvert that had been preventing migrating salmon from passing under the roadway.
Bellevue residents opposed to Puget Sound Energy’s Energize Eastside project asked city councilmembers Monday to put the brakes on an environmental impact statement process until a delayed independent study of the city’s future electrical needs is completed.
The estate of a 30-year-old Renton man gunned down inside the now-defunct Munchbar nightclub in Bellevue on Christmas Eve 2012 was awarded $3.7 million by a jury presiding over a civil suit filed by the family of DeShawn Milliken against Brewhaha Bellevue.
The Bellevue-based Ellison Foundation has made the largest donation for Alzheimer’s disease research and treatment development in the University of Washington’s history, putting its research center $6 million closer to its $20 million goal.
