Bellevue will make a big concession in fees for the development of Kelsey Creek project to ensure that it gets done on time.
Only four days out from groundbreaking of the project designed to revitalize the mostly abandoned shopping center at the corner of 148th Avenue Northeast and Main Street, the City Council on Monday agreed on a resolution that will lead to a savings of nearly $450,000 on transportation impact fees.
Employees of the local branch of online academy Insight Schools will be a casualty of a pending deal between two national Internet education companies.
Attorney General Rob McKenna went back to his roots to announce his plan for the future: candidacy for the governor’s office in 2012.
McKenna told several hundred supporters at his alma mater Sammamish High School Wednesday that he plans to create a more sustainable state government that leads to more jobs, and a greater emphasis on education. He laid out these goals as the starting point of his campaign, but didn’t delve deeply into how to accomplish them.
Bellevue’s biggest residential development is starting to fill up. A significant price cut and a change in ownership has led to a record-setting six months for Bellevue Towers, the two-building development that is the tallest in the city.
Bellevue won’t likely see new helicopter landing pads in the near future.
When the City Council last month allowed Kemper Development to operate a helistop on the top of the Bank of America building downtown, amid protests from a group of influential downtown residents, it became clear to council members that something needed to be changed.
Sound Transit has a message for the Bellevue City Council: It’s time to stop talking about East Link; it’s time to get it done.
Several members of the Sound Transit board showed frustration at the majority of the Bellevue council for continuing to push a light-rail alignment that is too expensive, when even the cheaper routes face a budget shortfall.
People want to keep districts from being split by bodies of water and mountains. They want to see a new 10th Congressional District on the Eastside, or the south Puget Sound. Or anywhere but the Puget Sound area.
Needless to say, the state Redistricting Commission has its work cut out.
The five-person body made a stop in Bellevue on Tuesday night, the fifth of 17 visits the group will make around the state. The members are getting the public’s thoughts on the impending changes that will come to Washington’s congressional and Legislative districts prior to beginning the process of carving out new maps.
County prosecutors have added three more charges to the case of a Bellevue Boys and Girls Club employee who has been accused of child rape and molestation.
Timothy L. Dampier, 37, was arraigned in King County Superior Court on a total of eight charges, five for child molestation, one for sexual exploitation of a minor, one for communication with a minor for immoral purposes, and one count of child rape. Dampier pleaded not guilty to all charges Monday.
One man was taken to Harborview Medical Center after a car crash on Bellevue Way, near the ramps for Interstate 90.
Northbound Bellevue Way Southeast is closed near the South Bellevue Park and Ride, and only one lane is open heading south, police say.
The newest Bellevue high-rise is a step closer to beginning construction.
With a targeted opening date of 2014, representatives of the Tateuchi Center are pushing to fill out the budget with donations.
Customers are showing early reluctance to support a merger between cell phone companies AT&T and T-Mobile, a customer survey showed Tuesday.
The report, compiled by the American Customer Service Satisfaction Index shows a decrease in customer satisfaction (scored between 0 and 100 points) for the merging companies, while customers have shown more faith in competitors Verizon and Sprint.
After more than two years of study, hundreds of pages of hearing examiner decisions and appeals, and multiple public hearings, the Bellevue City Council on Monday approved a permit allowing helicopters to land on a downtown office building.
The council will now look at imposing either a moratorium on new helistop pads, or a targeted code change while the impacts are studied further.
Nestled in between the many skyscrapers and upscale restaurants sits a small pizza joint more reminiscent of a neighborhood shop in New York or New Jersey than downtown Bellevue.
Topolino’s has sat in the same building on the corner of Northeast Eighth Street and 106th Avenue for 10 years, and it isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
No one act can stop world hunger, but Brad Allen and Jeremy Parnell are doing their part.
Along with a group of friends from the Bellevue campus of Mars Hill Church, Parnell and Allen are gearing up for the Eastside Fill and Feed, a fundraiser and volunteer event with the goal of packing enough meals to feed 742 children in the Philippines for an entire year.
A group of Medina citizens is circulating a petition around town to sway the City Council to have recently fired Police Chief Jeffrey Chen reinstated and City Manager Donna Hanson fired.
The petition has been out for a few days, and has more than 100 signatures already, and organizers have created an online version as well.
County prosecutors have filed four charges of child molestation, and one count of child rape, against an employee of the Bellevue Boys and Girls Club, accusing him of engaging in sexual acts with at least four boys since 1999.
Timothy L. Dampier, 37, was arrested by Seattle police following an investigation that began on April 25 when a now 21-year-old former victim told a minister of a Seattle church that he had been molested by Dampier, a recently hired musician at the church. He came forward out of fear for the safety of the other children at the church, Seattle police Det. Donna Stangeland wrote to the court.
Redmond-based Microsoft has reached a deal to buy Internet communications icon Skype, for $8.5 billion in cash, the biggest acquisition in the company’s 31-year history.
The deal, which the two companies announced Tuesday, represents a renewed commitment by Microsoft to compete in online communications against carriers such as Apple and Google, both of which feature video calling features for smartphones and other products.
From her formative years Rozalyn Strong was always involved in politics.
Her mother was a prominent Republican organizer and later an elected official in Georgia. Strong spent her youth on campaign trails and fundraisers. So, it should come as no surprise that she has followed in her mother’s footsteps.
But Strong has blazed her trail thousands of miles from her Georgia home. She was recently elected the first black chair of the Eastside Republican Party, a local group with more than 600 members that encourages Republicans to become involved in the political process. She will share duties with her fellow co-chair, Kristi Brown.
In some encounters, police officers have limited time to decide how to handle a suspect. Depending on the situation things can deteriorate quickly, and use of force may become the only option.
A forum hosted by the Bellevue Police Department on Tuesday sought to educate the public on the department’s policies on when and to what degree force should and can be used by officers.
