The Bellevue City Council held its first public hearing on the 2011-2012 budget Monday, with the recent national recession still taking its toll on city revenues.
The city anticipates a deficit of $8 million to $10 million for the operating budget.
The Bellevue schools superintendent this week recommended closing Robinswood Middle and High School following the school’s ranking as one of the lowest-performing in the state and its recent failure to qualify for federal funding.
The Bellevue School Board at its May 18 meeting selected Betsy Johnson to fill the seat vacated by long-time board member Judy Bushnell.
Johnson is a former Microsoft marketing executive who now serves as president of the Bellevue Schools Foundation and as a member of the Medina Elementary PTSA board of directors.
Belleuve police on June 10 will begin ticketing motorists who use their cell phones while driving.
Such infractions have been secondary violations since July 2008, meaning officers had to witness a different traffic offense before making a traffic stop.
But the state recently made the infractions a primary violation, which means texting or talking on a cell phone is now reason enough for a traffic stop.
King County prosecutors have charged a former Chinook Middle School PTSA treasurer with felony theft for allegedly stealing over $63,000 from an account he managed for the group.
Charging papers say PTSA board members contacted police in January to request charges against Clyde Hill resident James “David” Glass, who became the group’s treasurer in July 2008.
Bellevue filmmakers Ilona Rossman Ho and Shannon Hart-Reed might want to start thinking about acceptance speeches.
The Northwest Regional Emmy Awards are coming, and the two women have been nominated for an award in the special event-coverage category for the short film “Kites Over Washington.”
Hart-Reed directed the film and Ho produced it.
“Kites Over Washington” documents a temporary art installation of 131 long-tail kites that flew over Gasworks Park as a sort of promotional stunt for Credit Unions of Washington.
Bellevue-based Guidant Financial held it’s fifth annual Guidant Olympics this week, taking an hour out of each day Monday through Friday for the event.
This year’s games included jousting, tricycle races, a “binder toss” to celebrate the company’s move toward electronic data-keeping, and a contest to see who could build the tallest structure out of spaghetti and marshmallows.
A Bellevue SWAT team surrounded the Extended Stay America at 11400 Main Street this afternoon after a woman claimed she was robbed by a man considered armed and dangerous and wanted on an escape warrant.
Police say the woman was robbed Wednesday while trying to purchase narcotics at the hotel.
The Bellevue City Council on Monday extended its contract to keep misdemeanant inmates at King County Jail through 2016, buying more time to develop a permanent plan.
Karlene Selset, featured in the March 7, 2009 Bellevue Reporter story “Cancer battle gets a helping hand at Overlake Hospital,” died April 14 at the age of 42 after a long struggle against a rare form of lymphoma.
State Route 520 is ready for light rail, but light rail isn’t ready for 520.
Those were the words of Gov. Christine Gregoire Thursday as she and a group of state transportation leaders unveiled the state’s preferred alternative for replacing the 520 bridge.
Gregoire said the state has done its best to answer concerns from Seattle neighborhood groups and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, who want to limit impacts of the project and pave the way for future rapid-transit plans along the corridor.
Longtime Bellevue resident Paul Vander Hoek died April 21 at age 94. He was a fixture in Bellevue politics, development and business.
Vander Hoek’s influence remains evident in places like Old Bellevue – the city’s quaint and charming holdout amid the towering downtown skyscrapers – through the trail of Eastside businesses he helped spawn, and with every block of zoning that turned the city into an economic powerhouse.
Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 20-year-old convicted rapist for allegedly forcing a teen into prostitution at two Bellevue hotels and possessing pornographic photos of another girl.
Bellevue police returned precious heirlooms to a pair of burglary victims Wednesday, adding more joy to the department’s bust of an Eastside crime ring earlier this month.
Sound Transit’s board of directors voted unanimously on Thursday to name routes C9T, C11A, and B2M as its preferred options for light rail through Bellevue.
The decision gives Bellevue hope for a downtown tunnel with C9T, but it contradicts the city council’s own South Bellevue routing preference.
The Kirkland woman who accused David Copperfield of raping her during a trip to his private island dropped her federal lawsuit against the superstar magician Tuesday.
The Bellevue School Board adopted a traditionalist-favored math curriculum last week, and the superintendent revealed her final budget-cutting recommendations on Tuesday, making April a pivotal month for the school district.
The Bellevue City Council voted 4-3 on Monday to approve general terms for providing up to $150 million toward a tunnel for downtown light rail.
The state Department of Transportation broke ground Wednesday on a project that will open a new eastbound HOV lane on I-90 between Bellevue and Mercer Island in preparation for East Link light rail.
The $31-million project will free existing center express lanes for eventual light rail use.
The center lanes – which operate westbound in the morning and eastbound at night – will remain open to express HOV traffic until construction begins on the East Link light-rail line.
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