Pacific Northwest Ballet executive director D. David Brown has confirmed Bellevue’s Francia Russell Center will be demolished to make way for Sound Transit’s East Link route. Finding a viable option for relocation, he said, depends on an agreement for just compensation.
Group Health and Bartell Drugs are launching their second retail health clinic at the store’s Crossroads location Thursday with the promise of affordable care and quality customer service — a model that could soon expand across the Puget Sound region.
A little mud isn’t hindering construction of a new visitors center at the Bellevue Botanical Garden, which is slated to open in June.
The 8,500-square-foot visitors center is at 75 percent completion, said Glenn Kost, city park planning and development manager, adding planting for new gardens could start later this month.
At a crossroads between continuing suburban life or promoting greater economic vitality, the city of Bellevue was looking for direction in 1974 as it worked toward a comprehensive plan for the future.
Bellevue councilmembers agree the city is in need of a performing arts center, but are hesitant to commit to a public-private partnership to erect the Tateuchi Center downtown until more due diligence is done.
Bellevue Police Chief Linda Pillo will retire April 15, which happens to be her 28th anniversary with the police department.
Best Buy is seeking construction permits from the city of Bellevue to remodel its storefront on 120th Avenue Northeast to make way for a city project to extend Northeast Fourth Street and recover lost retail and parking space.
The Bellevue Police Department announced today it anticipates completion next month of an internal investigation into a former officer alleged to have been drunk driving in November and the coworker who let him off the hook.
A Bellevue man who pleaded guilty in October to charges he conspired with his brother to send out more than 240 shipments of firearm components to Thailand, along with numerous co-conspirators, until their arrests in June, was sentenced two years in prison and three years of supervised release today in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
Puget Sound Energy is working to reduce the potential for cable failure that would affect Bellevue residents with one replacement project underway and another ready for permitting.
Signs are up along Coal Creek Parkway directing traffic to the Newport Hills Neighborhood Shopping District. But it’s going to take more planning to ensure the community’s retail success.
Barrier Motors had to wait nearly 30 years, but partner Michael Vena says the timing now is perfect for constructing a new, expanded Porsche dealership and service center in Bellevue.
Attendees of a Jan. 16 meeting with the city of Bellevue to form a downtown residents association received the latest update on a number of projects that the group eventually will be scrutinizing – many for years to come.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued an opinion Jan. 16 that local governments are not prohibited from regulating or banning recreational marijuana businesses. Ferguson issued the opinion at the request of Sharon Foster, chair of the Washington State Liquor Control Board.
Getting membership for a Downtown Bellevue Residents Association won’t be a problem as Thursday’s kick-off meeting included a packed crowd with plenty of ideas on how to make downtown a better place to live.
A pedestrian was hospitalized Wednesday night after being struck by a vehicle while in a crosswalk at the intersection of Forest Drive and Southeast 60th Street in Bellevue.
Port of Seattle Commissioner Stephanie Bowman teased audience members at Thursday’s Bellevue Chamber of Commerce luncheon with an announcement to be made Friday regarding a cooperative agreement with the Port of Tacoma.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued an opinion today that local governments are not not prohibited from regulating or banning recreational marijuana businesses. Ferguson issued the opinion at the request of Sharon Foster, chair of the Washington State Liquor Control Board.
This is Week Two of a 12-week training academy being held at the city’s Public Safety Training Center where prospective firefighters from Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond and Northshore are attending. The academy is staffed by Eastside firefighters volunteering to share their expertise in various areas of the job and brings in recruits from multiple agencies in an effort to build consistency of service and communication among them.
A road-rage incident Wednesday night, with two cars repeatedly crashing into one another as the drivers sped westbound on I-90, left both drivers injured and one of them booked into King County Jail.
