Now that the state Washington general has put the option on the table, Bellevue councilmembers are considering whether to ban recreational marijuana businesses ahead of state-issued licenses.
The matter came up Monday when the council met to expand an emergency ordinance regulating zoning for retail, processing and producing marijuana in Bellevue for another six months past the April 21 expiration date.
Bellevue Downtown Park will be bursting with colors and good cheer Saturday during CRY Seattle’s sixth annual Holi festival and fundraiser to aid children in India.
Traffic enforcement cameras were authorized by the City Council in 2009, with two school speed zone cameras at Stevenson and Lake Hills elementary schools and red-light cameras at the north and southbound intersections of 148th Avenue Northeast and Bel-Red Road and southbound 148th Avenue Northeast and Main Street.
Two years ago Eileen Foley and Michelle Devaney tested the waters at the Issaquah Farmers Market to see if there was any demand for the Irish cuisine they’d brought with them from their homeland and improved upon since when they were children.
“I think both of us came out of there saying, ‘Yes, absolutely,’ “ said Foley, who emigrated from Ireland to Bellevue five years ago. She found the Irish population here was greater than expected. “It’s massive here. It’s actually getting really big here.”
Puget Sound Energy is reporting an unknown issue at its substation near downtown Bellevue caused a power outage shortly before 9 a.m. Friday that is still in effect.
A flag waves atop the Bellevue Youth Theatre under construction near the Crossroads Community Center. It’s tradition to put something at the high point of a project, said Steve Kathman, project superintendent for Pease Construction — much like a climber on a summit. And in his 29 years in the business, Kathman says the 12,000-square-foot theater is his most challenging venture yet
Bellevue city councilmembers emphasized the importance of a strong public process Monday as they move through a series of presentations on the planning commission’s update to shoreline management regulations over the next four months.
Seattle Seahawks Richard Sherman came out to the Bellevue Microsoft store Monday, March 10, for its Titanfall launch party.
Fast food may prove a bad decision for a suspect alleged to have robbed a store clerk at gunpoint in Factoria last month, leaving behind a McDonald’s receipt police hope will identify the woman who made off with $71 and cigarettes.
Big Bawarchi, an Indian restaurant on the 1400 block of 156th Avenue Northeast, reopened Tuesday after being shut down the day before by King County Public Health for safety violations.
A Bellevue-based aerospace and defense technology company has reached a settlement for $20 million in civil penalties against it for inadequate oversight that resulted in the provision of defense articles and technical information to foreign company’s without the U.S. government’s authorization.
A six-member jury found members of the Bellevue SWAT team who shot a Seattle man to death in March 2013 were justified in their actions at the conclusion of a four-day inquest on Thursday.
Bellevue city councilmembers received their first update Monday on the progress being made by a citizen advisory committee exploring how to enhance living downtown while also bracing for substantial population growth by 2030.
Bellevue Police claim the city’s former recreation program coordinator admitted to embezzling more than $100,000 in government funds that were documented for children’s sports T-shirts, but were actually used to resolve debt brought on by an addiction to gambling.
Bellevue-based Outerwall announced Tuesday its award of more than $250,000 in general operating grants in the Seattle and Chicago areas and its collaboration with grantees to provide company employees with volunteer opportunities
It took nearly two years for the Munchbar in Bellevue Square to be undone by its own notoriety as a place where police officers were constantly responding to drunken assaults, disorderly conduct and finally a fatal shooting that was its death knell.
Ben Lee has made his living in the high-tech world working for companies like IBM and Microsoft, but now he’s focused on being his own boss. The Bellevue man is one of two franchisees in King County for TapSnap, offering clients an interactive photo booth for their social events.
Bellevue and Renton Police caught up with and arrested Wendell Downs on Feb. 28, a month after his escape from custody at the Bellevue District Courthouse.
Bellevue Police Chief Linda Pillo defended her decision Thursday to remove one of her officers from the city’s bomb squad as discipline for the 22-year veteran of the force’s decision to drink while on-call and drive his department-assigned vehicle.
Bellevue Police believe drugs or alcohol were a factor in an early morning collision near the Redmond border on the 3100 block of 148th Avenue Northeast involving two vehicles where both drivers were arrested for vehicular assault.
