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The city's law firm K&L Gates issued a letter to the Washington State Department of Transportation that urged the state to consider alternatives for motorists headed to Mercer Island
The Washington State Patrol held a physical tryout and written test at Bellevue College over the weekend. WSP hopes to boost applications by holding local tests in the various districts.
Three recipes by Austin Zimmerman of Stopsky's, a Mercer Island delicatessen, are featured in the March 2013 edition of Bon Appetit magazine.
Anti-tolling group starts petition asking the state legislature look at ways to pay for roads other than tolling.
A Seattle group has proposed an initiative to ban tolling on interstates, which would include Interstate 90 and Interstate 405.
In the aftermath of a meteorite that exploded over Russia and a separate asteroid passing near earth on Friday, Bellevue asteroid mining company Planetary Resources describes how its technology might help protect Earth in the future.
A project that will add a trail along the west side of West Lake Sammamish Parkway means there will be road detours on southbound West Lake Sammamish Parkway at Southeast 34th Street.
As well as affecting staff, a toll might also make it hard for residents to pass school bonds and levies, the Mercer Island School District writes to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
In the aftermath of a meteorite that exploded over Russia and a separate asteroid passing near earth on Friday, Bellevue asteroid mining company Planetary Resources describes how its technology might help protect Earth in the future.
An Island Crest Way home sold earlier this month for $1.1 million, according to AOL Real Estate.
Fourteen homes were sold in Bellevue in the past week, including a $1.05 million condo in Bellevue Towers.
Bellevue Police asked people to avoid the area around 100th Avenue and NE 8th Wednesday evening during the evening commute as they investigated a pipe thrown out of a vehicle
A woman shoplifted more than $300 in liquor from QFC Friday night, according to Mercer Island Police.
Four incidents were added recently to the Bellevue Police crime map, according to CrimeMapping.com, including an attempted robbery at a downtown business.
Football players Isaac Dotson, Newport High School quarterback, Sean Constantine, Bellevue High School tight end, and others signed to Division I colleges today.
According to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 45 University Place students were reported homeless in the 2011-12 school year, a number lower than the year before.
The number of homeless students in Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula in 2011-12 was the highest among 1st, 2nd, 6th and 8th graders, according to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
About 1 percent of the students in the Bellevue School District are considered to be homeless, according to figures available from the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Opponents of tolling on Interstate 90 have taken to the web, with a website and a Facebook page organized late last month to oppose the proposal.
Bellevue Police say that members of the bowling team called "Who Cares" could be helpful in the investigation of the 1980 murder of Susan Lowe. Michael Allan Halgren, 56, was charged with her murder after police say his DNA matched the evidenc
