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The LCS Independence will remain in the Navy's reserve fleet until such time it is dismantled or called back into service.

View Comments The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, one of 11 in the nation's fleet, will set course for Sinclair Inlet in mid-July, its commander, Capt. Eric J. Anduze, told the Kitsap Sun in an interview.  "We're all eager to come and explore the Pacific Northwest," said Anduze, who previously served as executive officer of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier that departed Bremerton last summer following a similar shipyard overhaul to the one awaiting the Roosevelt.   Many of the 3,000 or so sailors that are stationed aboard the "TR" are already arriving on the Kitsap Peninsula, movi...

Former Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier leaves dry dock in Bremerton BREMERTON — Its hull needed to be scraped so the old flattop could be scrapped.  The former USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, decommissioned in 2009 following nearly a half-century of service, will soon head for its dismantling. But before that could happen, the Navy placed the 1,062-foot-long warship into a dry dock at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to remove marine growth from its hull.  The brief dry dock period went more quickly than the Navy anticipated. The ship, once called the "Battle Cat," entered Dry Dock 6 at th...

BANGOR — A powerful and incessant tsunami generated by the next Cascadia megaquake would crest Navy piers and wharves, flood critical state highways in Kitsap County and inundate other lowland areas of Puget Sound, according to new modeling released Tuesday by the state's Department of Natural Resources.  In Hood Canal, the 9.0 quake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone off Washington's coast would slosh water back and forth like in a bathtub, topping the Navy's submarine piers and pushing waves as high as 14 feet onto the shore at Belfair. In Sinclair Inlet, the waves would be small...

Upward of 85,000 trips along the Gorst corridor are made by folks in our region. Everyone who uses that road can attest to the frustrating and problematic slow-down guaranteed at this bottleneck. We know. We use that road ourselves as we visit loved ones, go to community events, head to Olympia, make trips to the doctor. A solution cannot wait, and this is the year to get this done, as we look to recover and rebuild after this pandemic. But we can’t do it without bipartisan and cross-region collaboration. That is why we have prioritized our involvement with the Gorst Coalition over the past...