Regionwide burn ban is lifted with wet weather

Effective at 10 a..m. Saturday, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is lifting the air quality burn bans issued for King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish counties.

Effective at 10 a..m. Saturday, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is lifting the air quality burn bans issued for King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish counties.

Agency forecasters were tracking a new weather system expected to arrive last night.  Winds from that system are now dispersing the air pollution that built up across the Puget Sound over the past week.