A Magic Season standard in Bellevue has long been playing host to the region’s largest open-air ice skating rink, and John Stewart has seen its magic in action for years now.
The King County Council has directed Public Health to find ways to scale back its proposed increases to permit fees for farmers markets in 2015, after operators and vendors expressed concerns the increase will be their undoing.
With the clock running out for the city to lock down its 2015-16 budget, Bellevue Deputy Mayor Kevin Wallace on Monday provided a revised financial plan that would allow the council once again to avoid a property tax increase. While councilmembers are hopeful, development company Wright Runstad is livid.
Joe Quinlan was back in Bellevue on Wednesday to provide Eastside business and community leaders with an even more optimistic 2015 economic forecast than he predicted for the country in 2014.
Minneapolis Assistant Police Chief Matt Clark says he was up for the job as Bellevue’s next police chief, but withdrew himself from consideration for family and personal reason earlier this month. City Manager Brad Miyake informed city employees by email Monday that none of the five candidates flown in to meet the community and Bellevue officials last month were determined right for the job.
A Bellevue Safeway employee under investigation for the October stabbing of a shoplifter died Tuesday from an apparent suicide, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Bellevue-based Point Inside teamed up with Target to provide its mobile shopping and mapping platform for the retailer’s own mobile application, which is now live and expected to enhance shopping and search capabilities at stores nationwide, just in time for the holidays.
Chef John Howie accepted one of four 2014 Corporations for Communities awards at the Washington Secretary of State’s Office in Olympia on Wednesday, Nov. 12.
Bellevue Police arrested a 33-year-old Bellevue teacher for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student on Nov. 7, following a complaint received the day before.
King County reports the average family throws out about 25 percent of its grocery purchases, and its Food: Too Good to Waste campaign was “a slap in the face” for Bellevue resident Mary Priestley-Fine when she took stock of her losses.
Card Kingdom’s 10,000-square-foot mega-gaming store opens next week in Bellevue with a new namesake the company plans to roll with in the future.
Mere months after bringing Katsu Burger back to Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, owner Stephanie Kang opened the Japanese-style hamburger joint’s second location in Factoria on Tuesday.
In a rapidly expanding downtown construction corridor, Bellevue residents are starting to feel the squeeze. Excavation work on several major projects is causing traffic congestion now, and the city cautions more development is coming.
Responding to residents upset by the number of rambler teardowns in the Northtowne neighborhood being replaced by large, multimillion-dollar homes, Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci on Monday called for increased study and outreach ahead of subarea planning next year.
Sound Transit released its 90-percent design for the south Bellevue light rail station, complete with artistic additions reflective of the neighboring Mercer Slough Nature Park and an updated traffic plan for Bellevue Way Southeast.
An 81-year-old Bellevue woman was unharmed during Thursday’s high-wind storm, which knocked a large tree down on her home on the 300 block of 111th Avenue Southeast, taking her electrical service line with it.
A 60-year-old Bellevue woman was transported to Overlake Medical Center after being struck by a vehicle while crossing Northup Way around 5 p.m. Wednesday. Bellevue Police report the woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
It’s been three years to the day that 2-year-old Sky Metalwala disappeared in Bellevue after his mother reportedly left him alone in her vehicle along the side of a road to find gas.
Bob Jones was ready to serve his country in 1939 and did so for six years, but the Bellevue veteran says that was just a brief tour in his 94 years of life, and not one that defines him now.
Bellevue’s interim police chief Jim Montgomery presented the City Council Monday with a 2015-16 budget proposal with cautious optimism proposed staffing increases will be enough to ensure public safety.
