Kitsap

Former Bremerton School District Superintendent James Crawford is threatening a massive lawsuit, claiming district agents provided negative job references in breach of his contract.

A new economic analysis places the Kitsap County region at the bottom of the state for five-year business survival, raising questions about local commercial viability.

The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Northwest has finalized a $517 million structural retrofit of Dry Dock 4 in Bremerton, increasing seismic resilience for critical naval operations.

Ken Dickinson assumes the role of interim Kitsap County Sheriff following the sudden retirement of John Gese and multiple command staff members.

Washington's SNAP Market Match dropped from $25 to $10 this year. Bremerton kept its full match through a giving-circle donation; Port Orchard is fundraising to get back there. A look at how four Kitsap markets are handling the same cut four different ways.

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.

The Bremerton City Council voted 5-2 to raise its vehicle license fee from $20 to $40 for the first time since 2009, aiming to close a street and sidewalk repair funding gap that has been eating into the city's general fund.

A Poulsbo man with a prior fatal DUI conviction was sentenced to 136 months after pleading guilty to killing his girlfriend in her Bremerton home, then fleeing into a Highway 3 crash spree.

A first-of-its-kind state model shows an Alaska megaquake's tsunami reaching the Navy's Bangor submarine base within hours, while a separate earlier study already flagged Bremerton's shipyard.

A new 7.31-acre park at Koura and Miller roads preserves the history of the family who ran Bainbridge Island's largest strawberry farm before being forced from their homes in 1942.

Washington's Legislative Ethics Board found Rep. Tarra Simmons, D-Bremerton, personally benefited from a $1 million grant that helped fund her $120,000 nonprofit salary, and that she retaliated against the employee who complained. She denies wrongdoing and will appeal.

DNR and Kitsap County scrapped 27 aging boats in a Port Orchard event this month, a year after two Sinclair Inlet sinkings spilled thousands of gallons of oil into the same water.

A blue-green fireball lit up skies from Chimacum to Spokane just before 1 a.m. Friday. NASA's tracking data shows a 170-pound object breaking apart with the force of 10 tons of TNT — and says it wasn't even part of the Perseids.

The carrier is coming home after a 266-day deployment marked by a mental-health crisis the Navy spent months denying. Separately, its own admiral says its next homeport will likely be Bremerton.

The Washington Department of Commerce denied Bainbridge Island's request for more time on a state housing mandate, forcing an emergency zoning vote by Aug. 25 or risking the Builder's Remedy, which lets developers bypass city zoning outright.

Burglaries, car thefts and robberies all dropped double digits in Kitsap County's new 2025 crime report. The Sheriff's Office says one number worries them more than any that fell.

Assessor Phil Cook and Prosecutor Chad Enright are both trailing after the Aug. 4 primary, while county commissioners must name an interim sheriff by the end of August regardless of what November decides.

A Kitsap County Sheriff's Office detective in training posed online as a 13-year-old girl. A 29-year-old Seattle man arranged to meet her, and deputies arrested him instead. The case is the first public result of a new KCSO push to train detectives to hunt online predators proactively.

A 47-year-old man is jailed on suspicion of first-degree arson and second-degree assault after investigators say he rode a golf cart onto a stranger's driveway and torched the garage, causing roughly $200,000 in damage.

A National Weather Service alert covers Kitsap and four other Puget Sound counties from noon Monday through Wednesday evening as smoke from Eastern Washington and British Columbia fires arrives alongside a genuine heat spike.

A man in his mid-20s died when an illegal M-80, a device banned as an explosive since 1966, detonated in a Manette garage Sunday, Bremerton Fire says.

Port of Bremerton commissioners extended Circuit of the Northwest's lease another year, the sixth extension since 2011, as the motorsports park still awaits financing.

Bremerton High's Jalen Davis, the nation's No. 3 combo guard in the 2027 class, will visit Gonzaga November 7 for the Zags' season opener, the final stop on a five-school official visit tour.

The Kitsap Public Utility District board placed a Nov. 3 ballot measure asking voters for legal authority to provide electric service, after months of rate pressure under Puget Sound Energy. Approval would enable a feasibility study, not an immediate takeover.