Cars cruise over the 1st Ave. bridge in front of a backdrop of a hazy Seattle skyline Wednesday, September 21, 2022. Smoke is making the air quality in downtown and North Seattle unhealthy for everyone, according to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. 221628
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Air quality plummets as smoke pours into the Seattle area

The smoke is predicted to stay in the Puget Sound area at least through Thursday, when wind from the coast is expected to start clearing it out.

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FILE – J.R. Majewski, Republican candidate for U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, speaks at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio., Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar, File) WX101 WX101

Ohio GOP House candidate has misrepresented military service

Opinion

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Local News

Angel Casillas (right), a freshman from Yakima, WA, gets help from student volunteer Angel Lee (left) and his family as he moves into the McMahon Hall at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA on September 21, 2022. Around 10,000 students are expected to move into campus housing throughout the week. Fall quarter classes start on September 28th. 221621

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Business & Tech

Homes are seen between Seattle’s Central District and Judkins Park neighborhoods, Sunday, April 10, 2022, as viewed looking east from north Beacon Hill. 220091

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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.

In the Central District, step into the new Moishe House Jewish co-living space

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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At Bush Point, anglers spend a sunny day seeking hatchery coho salmon VIEW

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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