Bellevue Police say a 59-year-old woman was transported to Harborview Medical Center for what appears to have been a self-inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday after witnesses reported hearing the gunshot and finding her next to a car in the Wade’s Eastside Guns parking lot.
Proposition 1, the special election measure to fund the recently formed King County Transportation Benefit District, is currently failing at 55 percent as of Tuesday night’s ballot count. Nearly 364,000 ballots for a currently 31 percent turnout have been counted. King County is anticipating a 38 percent turnout this election.
Bellevue city councilmembers plan to approve an updated transit master plan this summer to identify project priorities in order to handle a significant increase in ridership projected by 2030.
Bellevue has undergone multiple spurts of growth and change over the years, and Mayor Claudia Balducci says the city will work diligently this year to further facilitate its growing success as a community and economic hub of the Eastside.
Two residents in an apartment on the 16200 block of 13th Place Northeast were uninjured this morning when a 43-year-old man confused the accelerator for the brake of his 2003 Toyota RAV 4, driving it through their first-floor unit.
Details are set to be released next week detailing brothers Bret and Marc Chatalas’ vision for what Tavern Hall is going to be as it replaces the shuttered Munchbar in downtown’s Bellevue Square.
One of Linda Pillo’s final acts as Bellevue police chief was to fire an officer on Wednesday following an internal investigation into his conduct during a November traffic stop where he let a fellow officer off the hook for allegedly driving under the influence.
All the world is a stage and, in the business world, Christina Marie Kimball and Jenni Butz believe getting the right part is all about a good performance.
As Puget Sound Energy continues community engagement for its Energize Eastside project, running 18 miles of transmission lines from Redmond to Renton, a group in the Somerset neighborhood of Bellevue isn’t buying the company’s claim that it’s for the betterment of the people.
When Bellevue Police Chief Linda Pillo started her 35-year career in law enforcement as an officer in Mercer Island in 1979, it was still odd for people to see a woman on the force — there wasn’t even a women’s locker room.
The Bellevue City Council put its best offer on the table Monday night to acquire contentious property rights needed to extend Northeast Fourth Street to 120th Avenue Northeast. Mayor Claudia Balducci opposed the offer in order to send a message that she feels the offer goes “too far” after Best Buy and another property owner repeatedly demanded more money from the city.
David Yunger knows his HUB 400 Zero Clients might not be a hit with computer manufacturers, but he isn’t hearing many complaints from customers who are saving money by using his USB over Ethernet device to operate multiple workstations through a single computer.
The King County Prosecutor’s Office filed a second-degree murder with a deadly weapon charge against a 53-year-old Bellevue man Wednesday, three days after his aunt was found dead inside an apartment they shared in downtown.
Kemper Development Company has opted to place its request to use single-engine helicopters at its downtown Bellevue landing pad on hold to address safety concerns brought forth by the city following last month’s fatal crash in Seattle.
Former Bellevue Police Chief Jim Montgomery will come out of retirement to replace Chief Linda Pillo following her own retirement from the city next week following a 35-year career in law enforcement.
A King County Sheriff’s deputy has allegedly tested positive for multiple prescription drugs following his New Year’s Eve arrest in Newcastle, according to Bellevue Police, who conducted the investigation after the deputy was found in the Starbuck’s parking slumped over the wheel of his patrol vehicle.
Bellevue Police are asking the King County Prosecutor to charge a 31-year-old marijuana dispensary operator with second-degree manslaughter following an explosion and fire at the Hampton Greens apartment complex last November that resulted in the death of well-known Bellevue resident Nan Campbell. The explosion was determined to have been caused by a hash oil manufacturing operation he is alleged to have started in a nearby apartment unit in which he was also staying.
Brad Miyake will continue his responsibilities as Bellevue city manager after a City Council vote tonight that follows a lengthy nationwide search.
A 3-year-old Bellevue boy died in a duplex fire at 141st Place Southeast off Southeast Eighth Street early Monday morning after firefighters pulled him from a bedroom on the second floor of the burning building.
Munchbar has been closed for more than a year now after a steady history of drunken violence, the last straw being the shooting death of DeShawn Milliken on Christmas Eve 2012. The 30-year-old Renton man was shot multiple times inside the packed nightclub, his sister and another patron also being struck during the shooting.
