The Chatalas brothers quietly opened the doors to Tavern Hall at Bellevue Square last week, and have been pleased to find their restaurant attracting customers without actively seeking exposure.
Bellevue’s first recreational marijuana shop, Green-Theory, opened its doors at noon Monday after several months coordinating with the city and state liquor control board.
The Bellevue Police Department is recommending the King County Prosecutor’s Office file a felony hit-and-run charge against a 58-year-old Bellevue woman suspected of being the second driver to strike a pedestrian in a crosswalk at Forest Drive Southeast and Coal Creek Parkway on Sept. 10.
The Bellevue City Attorney’s Office charged the 31-year-old woman alleged to have made falsely accused Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch on assaulting her back in August with misdemeanor false statement to a public servant.
A robbery suspect who struck the Chase Bank on the 1900 block of 156th Avenue Northeast Thursday afternoon is believed to be the Rent Money Bandit, named so by the FBI due to his habit of striking banks during the first few day of the month.
The King County Council is postponing a vote on additional cuts to Metro bus service in February for further discussion during the fall budget process.
Bellevue Police are investigating whether a downtown Safeway employee who reportedly stabbed an alleged shoplifter after chasing him out of the store acted in self-defense during a second altercation outside.
Bellevue and Redmond councilmembers agreed Tuesday to bolstering collaboration among the two cities to tackle regional challenges and opportunities to grow responsibly. They also agreed to check in more than every seven years.
At 57 years old, Miss Belle is in fairly good condition, considering she’s spent the past decade living outside. She still has all her old parts, but Bellevue Fire Lt. Rich Burke says it will take more work still before she’s moving on her own.
Dave Rheins says the economics behind Washington’s growing marijuana industry are promising, but 2015 is the year that will define the new market’s strength. The hundreds who attended Saturday’s Marijuana Business Association job fair in Bellevue were those looking to fill just a small portion of the 30,000 positions cannabis is expected to create over the next year.
Former city employee Heather Christoff received leniency during her sentencing Friday in King County Superior Court for embezzling more than $117,000 from the city during her time with the parks department, receiving a 90-day jail sentence rather than the 17 months recommended by the prosecutor’s office.
Bellevue-based firm Desh International Law was honored last week with the World Trade Center Tacoma’s Globe Award for Service Provider of the Year, and former diplomat and managing partner Pradnya Desh says her workload continues to grow.
Bellevue and Redmond city councilmembers will join Tuesday for their first joint meeting in seven years to discuss local and regional issues of mutual concern.
A Seattle contractor who underbid government and private construction projects by hiring undocumented workers, falsely reporting the wages he was paying and turning over those in his employ who complained about their compensation to immigration officials, was sentenced to three months in jail under work release and fined $10,000 on Sept. 19.
Carl Vander Hoek returned to the City Council on Monday with a proposal for a public-private partnership to construct underground parking at Downtown Park to meet future demand there and in adjacent Old Bellevue.
Outerwall CEO Scott di Valerio committed his company to diverting at least two million pounds of electronic waste from landfills through expansion of its ecoATM kiosks Tuesday at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York.
Bellevue Police on Wednesday arrested a 41-year-old Seattle man believed to have committed at least six burglaries at office buildings on the Eastside after receiving a Crimestoppers tip from a Washington’s Most Wanted viewer who recognized the man from broadcasted security footage.
Bellevue councilmembers want the city and Sound Transit to get more creative with their timeline for traffic closures ahead of East Link light rail construction, particularly along Bellevue Way when the South Bellevue Park and Ride closes for up to five years.
Property values across King County are on the rise, and Assessor Lloyd Hara is once again calming concerns those increases will match Eastside residents’ tax bills.
Bellevue College will spend up to $200,000 in design improvements to keep King County Metro’s Route 271 running through its campus.
