The sun shines through a thick smoky haze in Shoreline Wednesday morning, Sept. 21, as a plume of smoke from the Bolt Creek fire has returned to the Seattle area, resulting in unhealthy air quality. (Travis Ness / The Seattle Times)
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Smoke pours into Seattle area, air quality plummets

The smoke is predicted to be in the Puget Sound region at least through Thursday, when wind from the coast is expected to start clearing it out, according to the National Weather Service. Updated

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President Joe Biden addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, at the U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) NYEV403 NYEV403

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Local News

Interim Police Chief Adrian Diaz is all smiles as Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell introduces him as Seattleís new police chief at a press conference held at City Hall Tuesday, September 20, 2022. 221618

Mayor Bruce Harrell appoints Adrian Diaz permanent Seattle police chief

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Boeing employees work on the 737 MAX on the final assembly line at Boeing’s Renton plant Wednesday, June 15, 2022. 220682

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In this file photo, a homeless man who asked to not be named tries to stay cool near a misting station in Lents Park during an extreme heat wave in Aug. 13, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images/TNS)

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The Black Velvet” is simple—a one-to-one combination of dark stout (Guinness, anyone) and Champagne. It’s fans argue over the order of pours, whether the beer goes on the bottom or top, but the drink tastes the same either way. Credit: Tantri Wija

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Arts & Life

From left: housemates Madison Holt, 22; Ari Rosenthal, 24; and Clara Prizont, 24, with Holt’s dog Leo in the backyard of Moishe House, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 in Seattle.

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Photography

Joe Zante, right, gets ready to cast again after catching a coho hatchery salmon netted by his wife Lourdas, at Bush Point where more than a dozen licensed anglers are allowed to catch two hatchery fish off Whidbey Island, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Hatchery coho have a clipped small adipose fin near the tail. The married couple are from Bothell.
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Quanadre Diggs can’t complete the interception in the end zone on the pass intended for San Francisco’s Danny Gray in the second quarter. 221601
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Agnes Cabullos, a volunteer from Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance, cuts trawling netting so it can be rolled into piles and then lifted into huge bags and then recycled at Terminal 91 in Seattle Tuesday, September 6, 2022. The insurance company is the insurance broker for American Seafoods. American Seafoods partner with a local, woman-owned start up, Net Your Problem, and many volunteers at Terminal 91 Tuesday for the first time to recycle midwater trawling nets. All of the recovered materials are kept out of landfills and are given new life. A former North Pacific fisheries observer and current UW research scientist, Nicole Baker, launched Net Your Problem to divert plastic waste and nets from the fishing industry out of ocean and landfills. The nets are about four to five years old and can no longer be used to catch pollock. Old nets are often just stored and sometimes sent to Europe to be recycled. This is the first year American Seafoods is doing the recycling work themselves. They recovered 19,000 lbs. of plastics, all of which will go on to additional products/uses. A rough breakdown of the plastics they recovered is polypropylene (60%), nylon (19%), high density polyethylene (HDPE, 8%), mixed materials (13%). The material will be given to someone who will turn all of the former nets into different products. Tim Fitzgerald, chief sustainability officer and public affairs with American Seafoods, said that the company could either pay to store the trawling nets, throw them away or recycle them. They chose to recycle. 221513
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American Seafoods works with Net Your Problem to recycle fishing gear VIEW

Seattle Seahawks special teamers swarm under Denver Broncos’ Montrell Washington on a kick return during the first quarter Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in Seattle. 221558
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