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

A sudden wave of 23 engine room sick-calls tied up 13 of 18 Washington State Ferries vessels on Monday, reducing the Bremerton route to single-boat service and suspending Bainbridge travel.

Washington wildlife managers ordered an emergency monthlong closure of the Snohomish River after critically low coho returns and drought conditions threatened spawning escapement.

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.