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Two fishermen approach the dock as the Port of Seattle cranes are in the distance on Monday, August 20. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)

Health

Washington’s smoky air looks scary, but UW physician says trust your body’s defenses

Washington is experiencing high levels of air pollution, forcing people to stay indoors and vacationers to cancel their trips. But it's not time to panic yet, UW physician says. WATCH

Driver alert: Third Avenue now bus-only from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day Updated 8:13 pm
Seahawks release longtime punter Jon Ryan and kicker Jason Myers
Washington lawmaker on public-records task force calls journalists ‘those dirty, godless, hateful people’ Updated 7:48 pm
Researchers to try to treat ailing orca J50 for worms
Burien teen who shot friend charged with manslaughter Updated 8:38 pm
Deal reached to keep jailed juveniles out of solitary confinement in King County Updated 8:19 pm
Darigold aims to sell more than half of its dairy output abroad despite trade spat Updated 8:16 pm

Seahawks

A beloved punter walks into a bar: How Jon Ryan spent the day of his Seahawks release

After a decade in Seattle, the Seahawks parted ways with punter Jon Ryan on Monday. What did Ryan do next? He stopped at a neighborhood cafe, then stepped into the unknown.

Art Chippendale and Roni Murray, right, help the Backbone Campaign try out their new inflatable Trump Baby at their workspace on Vashon Island Monday August 20 2018. They received the inflatable protest blimp as an “unsolicited donation” and are planning ways to use it. “What I really care about is that we are strategic in its utilization,” said Bill Moyer, co-founder and executive director. “It should weaken his confidence if it is going to be effective.” 207481

Local News

‘Baby Trump’ blimp arrives on Vashon Island

The exact duplicate of the inflatable 20-foot “Baby Trump” that made worldwide news in July during President Donald Trump’s visit to London has arrived on Vashon Island. It passed its test inflation on Monday and now a tour is being planned. Updated 8:17 pm

Chris Petersen goes over the day’s practice plan with linebacker Kyler Manu.

Washington practice at Husky Stadium Tuesday, August 14, 2018. 207323

UW Football

UW Huskies ranked No. 6 in preseason AP poll, highest ranking since 1997

Auburn, UW's first opponent, is ranked No. 9 in the AP poll.

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Fit For Life

Are you up for a new adventure? As in, 200 feet up a Douglas fir?

— ILLUSTRATION MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE – ONLINE OR IN PRINT – BEFORE AUG. 19, 2018. — Dr. Michael Holick, the doctor most responsible for creating a billion-dollar vitamin D juggernaut, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from supplements makers. (Yuta Onoda/The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH VITAMIN D INDUSTRY BY LIZ SZABO FOR AUG. 19, 2018. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. —

Health

The man who sold America on vitamin D — and profited in the process

A cyclist passes by the bike counter on Second Avenue between Madison and Marion Streets in Downtown Seattle Thursday July 12, 2018. 206982

Traffic Lab

What we can learn from Seattle’s bike-counter data

Editorial

Way to go, Bellevue, on thoughtful bike lane pilot program

Local News

Recently completed lidar maps of Glacier Peak strip away the heavy vegetation and reveal the underlying topography, including tracks of past eruptions and lahars.

‘Very high threat’ Snohomish County volcano may get new monitoring stations

Featured Columnist

Joy, peace feed black revolution in artist Natasha Marin’s new West Seattle exhibit

Education Lab

STEM majors way up, humanities down, among Washington college students, new data show

Guest essay: Teaching For Black Lives book presents ideas for empowering marginalized students

Watch with us: Tomorrow, state officials may approve a second for-profit private school in King County

Blaming state lawmakers, Seattle school officials forecast years of financial doom and gloom

Business & Tech

Stan Ryan, president and CEO at Darigold, stands in front of a photo of cows in a barn in Darigold’s offices in Seattle Tuesday, August 14, 2018. Darigold marks 100 years and is ramping up its export business under Ryanís leadership. He was hired 2.5 years ago.

Darigold aims to sell more than half of its dairy output abroad despite trade spat

Featured Columnist

How Seattle’s Showbox might have a valuable second act

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Hawaii

Winter getaway: Stay and play in Kaanapali, Maui

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Fashion & Style

Move over fedora, the bucket hat is back VIEW

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Children's Health

It’s time to think about back-to-school vaccinations

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Home Improvement

Choose fixture colors that match your environment

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Nation & World

FILE – In this Aug. 7, 2018 file photo, firefighters monitor a backfire while battling the Ranch Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex Fire near Ladoga, Calif. The years with the most acres burned by wildfires have some of the hottest temperatures, an Associated Press analysis of fire and weather data found. As human-caused climate change has warmed the world over the past 35 years, the land consumed in flames has more than doubled. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) NY694 NY694

Firefighter died after retardant drop on massive California blaze VIEW

Photography

From left, Michael Hart, 20, Kelsey Kua, 19, and Alaina Kwan, 23, perform with Taiko Kai at the University of Washington at BAAMFest, the Rainier Beach Arts and Music Festival at the Rainier Beach Community Center in Seattle Sunday August 19, 2018. Taiko Kai was started in 2013 at the University of Washington by the Matsudaira sisters. They perform a North American style of taiko and drum kumi-daiko, or as a group.

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Rainier Beach’s BAAMFest features everything from belly dancing to Buffalo Soldiers VIEW

during the 20th annual BrasilFest at Seattle Center, August 19, 2018.

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BrasilFest celebrates Brazilian culture at Seattle Center VIEW

Kalieyah Johnson, 13, center, and Lakelle Bridges, 13, right, perform with the ensemble in the opening number for the final dress rehearsal for the 2018 Teen Summer Musical, ‘Cinderella, A Love Story with the Sound of Motown,’ at Benaroya Hall Thursday August 16, 2018. The production opens Thursday evening and runs through Sunday August 19th. The Teen Summer Musical is a production of the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, with 60 students working with professional artists over eight weeks in the summer to create the show.

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Fairy tale with a soulful twist VIEW

Laila Vieira, 11, goes sideways in her jet while testing out a new flight simulator at the Renton/Skyway Boys & Girls Club Tuesday August 7, 2018. Volunteer Austin McHenry, 23, watches and helps her along. McHenry is home on his summer break from his fifth year at the Rochester Institute for Technology, studying electrical/mechanical engineering technology. “I pretty much grew up here,” he said about the Renton/Skyway Boys & Girls Club, and has volunteered with them on and off since high school. He went to Raisbeck Aviation High School and has flown a plane a few times. “I think it’s really cool for the kids being able to experience these things here,” he said. “These technologies aren’t going away anytime soon.”

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Boys & Girls Club visitors feel the thrill of learning to fly VIEW

Entertainment

Alice in Chains release “Rainier Fog,” their first album in five years, on Aug. 24.

Alice in Chains to perform atop Space Needle among string of Seattle events

Featured Columnist

A botanist, a pope and a princess: Three new biographies

Editorials & Opinion

Way to go, Bellevue, on thoughtful bike lane pilot program | Editorial

Featured Columnist

As Florida chokes on red tide, governor denies environmental malpractice

This week in cartoons

Trump's erratic behavior, Catholic church scandal and RIP Aretha Franklin

Sports

Chris Petersen goes over the day’s practice plan with linebacker Kyler Manu.

Washington practice at Husky Stadium Tuesday, August 14, 2018. 207323

UW Huskies ranked No. 6 in preseason AP poll, highest ranking since 1997

Featured Columnist

Seahawks release longtime punter Jon Ryan and kicker Jason Myers

Featured Video Stories

After Juan Lopez arrived in the United States, he wasn’t thinking about the future. Now he has a wife and children. “To see them crying… it just hurts me now.” (Corinne Chin, Ramon Dompor & Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

'It's going to be hard to leave': The Lopez family's tough... (8:41)

Recent Chief Sealth graduate Juan Old Chief Betancourt has learned a lot from his great grandmother. He wanted to honor her the best way he knew how, by taking her to his high school prom. (Lauren Frohne & Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Family always comes first: A prom story (5:09)

Stand up paddle boarding is making its Special Olympics USA Games debut, and 21-year-old Devon Adelman is up for the challenge of this new sport. (Lauren Frohne, Bettina Hansen & Emily M. Eng / The Seattle Times)

Paddling for Special Olympics gold (5:01)

"History matters because it shows our values," says Jeffrey Coopersmith, a Seattle attorney who has collected historical artifacts for the past four decades. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

Artifacts of Injustice (2:38)

South Park has seen a recent escalation in youth violence, but programs like the Duwamish Valley Youth Corps work to keep kids active, safe and engaged with the community. (Lauren Frohne & Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

Nurture with nature (5:35)

Glass sculpture artist Martin Blank closes his hot shop in South Lake Union after serving Seattle's art scene for 17 years. (Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

Hot Shop: One of Seattle's glass studios closes for developing (2:30)

Vishavjit Singh, dressed as Sikh Captain America, uses his superhero alter ego to initiate conversations he would not normally have with others while wearing his civilian clothes. (Ramon Dompor & Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

A Sikh man dresses as a superhero to challenge what it means to... (3:41)

Kellie Sevier and Tommi Tate of Spokane visit Seattle's last sanctioned lot for vehicle dwellers. Their daughter Sabrina Tate, 27, died in her RV. "It changed how I view homelessness," Sevier said. (Bettina Hansen & Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

A death in the RV safe zone (2:58)

Life

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Are you up for a new adventure? As in, 200 feet up a Douglas fir? | Fit for Life

Pacific NW Magazine

Scenery Fans: Offshore pinnacles and rocks appeared out of the morning fog as Justice Douglas led hikers along the beach on their way from Lake Ozette to Rialto Beach, near La Push. Seventy-one hikers, heavily laden with packs made the trip. Hiking was considerably tougher when high tides and the rugged terrain forced the party from the beach.
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Protest hikers of the Olympic Peninsula’s rugged coast line were back in their homes today – comfortable or footsore according to their training and experience convinced at least that they had had a good time, if nothing else.
Their purpose was to dramatize a protest against a proposed Coast highway, which would reduce the already small number of natural coastline miles in the United States.
Mrs. Lincoln Morse, 202 E. ***** Said today she had ***** fine trip, and so did other members of the party. Mrs. Morse said women made up almost 25 percent of the group. She represented the Washington Alpine Club.
Country Is Rugged
“I’m not a politician and I ***** know what good we ***** have done in the way of preserving the Coastline beauty,” said Mrs. Morse, ” but I think everyone had a good time in spite of heavy ***** Lots of people learned ***** lot of things from this hike. had no idea the country was ***** rugged.”
Mrs. Morse said representative of outdoor organizations managed the walk better than those with less hiking experience.
“And all of us agreed that the country up there is worth keeping as it is,” said Mrs. Morse, “Whether it’s for scientific or scenic reasons.”
Mrs. Morse said justice Douglas now will spend some time on his ranch near Goldendale.
Two welcomers appeared at the hike’s end, protesting against the protesters, and with signs gave a warm greeting to the un welcoming committee of two.
In a masterly stroke of diplomacy (which some hikers said, could be used to advantage in the State Department) Justice Douglas told the Venables:
” Sorry you couldn’t be with us on the hike.”
Highway Need

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was not just a legal giant, but also a powerful environmentalist

Travel

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