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

The Washington State Department of Transportation reopened State Route 160 (Sedgwick Road) in Port Orchard on Saturday evening, restoring a vital South Kitsap commuter link after completing a 25-foot buried bridge over Salmonberry Creek.

Thurston County Superior Court Judge Christine Schaller permanently blocked key mandates of Washington Senate Bill 5974, ruling that state lawmakers cannot impose law enforcement experience requirements or administrative removal on elected county sheriffs.

The U.S. Navy completed a bilateral hull exchange between Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, docking USS Wyoming at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor while sending USS Pennsylvania to Georgia.

Governor Bob Ferguson and Ecology Director Casey Sixkiller push back against Canada's national priority designation for the Pacific Link pipeline, warning 92-million-gallon supertankers threaten the Salish Sea and endangered orcas.

The Washington State Department of Transportation is finalizing its Gorst Area Planning and Environmental Linkages study, evaluating two Sinclair Inlet bridge options and highway widening to fix Kitsap County's worst bottleneck without approved construction money.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown and a 25-member state coalition file a D.C. Circuit petition challenging the repeal of federal carbon standards for coal and gas power plants.

D.R. Horton has submitted conceptual plans to redevelop the vacant 9.48-acre former Harrison Hospital site along Cherry Avenue into 238 townhomes and apartments.

Over 100 Washington residents testified at the Utilities and Transportation Commission hearing in Lacey against Puget Sound Energy's proposed three-year electric and natural gas rate increases.