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

Washington insurance regulators approve an average 22.2 percent rate hike for 2027 individual health plans, impacting 281,055 residents as expired federal subsidies destabilize risk pools.

Attorney General Nick Brown is co-leading two federal lawsuits challenging Trump administration rules that strip habitat protections from the 1973 law, with southern resident orcas and salmon at the center of the state's case.

A late-night altercation two blocks from Bremerton High School left three young men wounded and multiple homes and vehicles damaged by gunfire, prompting Bremerton Police to appeal for neighborhood security video.

More than 550 Washington National Guard soldiers and airmen have completed a six-week wildfire mobilization across six major complexes, logging 474 flight hours and dropping nearly two million gallons of water.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan completed post-maintenance sea trials following an 18-month overhaul at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton.

Sound Transit and WSDOT are investigating the deaths of approximately 2,000 fish in Lake Washington after an impressed current cathodic protection system on the I-90 floating bridge created localized electrical fields near the lakebed.

Following a $30,000 shortfall and the absence of military jet headliners, organizers and Port of Bremerton commissioners are weighing whether to move the annual air show to an every-other-year format.

Kitsap County emergency officials have downgraded the peninsula wildfire ban from Stage 2 to Stage 1, allowing small recreational campfires while keeping general burn permits frozen.