Vyraa — Local News for Bremerton, Kitsap County & Washington State

Preliminary election returns show 60.5 percent of Kitsap County voters rejected KPUD Proposition 1, preserving Puget Sound Energy as the retail electrical provider across the peninsula.

Washington voters delivered a decisive defeat to Initiative 645 in early general election returns, safeguarding a 9.9% surcharge on earnings over $1 million to preserve education and healthcare revenue.

Kitsap Transit estimates it can eliminate $1.6 million in yearly deadhead ferry runs between Bremerton and Southworth once Washington State Ferries completes multi-year terminal rebuilds.

A hospitalized Yakima County resident with underlying conditions has died from H5N1 avian influenza following dairy cow exposure, as state veterinarians manage quarantines across more than thirty infected herds.

A $3 million grant from the Medina Foundation closes the capital campaign for 38 deeply affordable homes, a 47-bed emergency shelter expansion, and a renovated market on North Callow Avenue.

Maintenance crews completed emergency partial expansion joint repairs on the 1950 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, reopening all westbound lanes and the Jackson Avenue on-ramp seven days ahead of schedule.

Washington State Ferries canceled ten Sunday sailings on the Seattle-Bremerton route after pulling the M/V Sealth to cover maintenance and crewing demands, leaving Sinclair Inlet commuters on an extended single-vessel schedule.

A coalition of voting rights groups has filed an emergency federal lawsuit in Seattle against the Trump administration and Department of Justice to block eleventh-hour demands targeting 405 voters on Washington voter rolls.