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

Scott Bessent announced sanctions on nearly 60 Iran-linked targets as the rial hit a record low and the six-month U.S.-Israel-Iran war deepened its economic toll.

A windshield sighting in Vancouver led to Washington's first confirmed emerald ash borer detection, triggering a statewide firewood quarantine and a race to protect Puget Sound's ornamental ash trees before the beetle spreads.

Joshua Aviles is more than 250 days into a record deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln when Border Patrol arrested his father in Key West. The Navy has said the carrier is likely bound for Naval Base Kitsap.

BCI Pacific has filed plans for a 102-room Home2 Suites by Hilton at Poulsbo's College Marketplace, opening a public comment period that runs through Sept. 1 as the corridor also builds a $16 million recreation center.

A new Goat Fire triggered Level 3 evacuations in Kittitas County's Cle Elum Valley Sunday, adding a third active wildfire to a stretch of the Cascades already fighting the Three Queens and King fires.

Benjamin Charles Parker, 36, suspected in the deaths of five people and several animals near Forest Grove, Oregon, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound behind a King County grocery store Sunday, pulling in agencies from both states.

Israel opened bidding this week on 1,234 homes in the West Bank's E1 corridor, the first construction step in a plan long called a "red line." At least 22 governments have condemned it; the Trump administration has not.

Two days after trade talks with Canada collapsed and 50% tariffs took effect, Trump broke his silence on Truth Social. Carney had already laid out, in unusually sharp terms, exactly what killed the deal — and Washington state's Patty Murray says Trump owes Canada an apology.