When the Yakima City Council meets on Tuesday council members will be talking about a major crisis hitting Yakima and many other cities, the overdose crisis.

APPROVING A PROCLAMATION

Council members are expected to read and approve a proclamation which designates August 29 as Overdose Awareness Day, a time to recognize the many people who have died of overdoses in the community. So far 67 people have died of overdoses in Yakima County. A record 144 people died of overdoses in 2024.

THE OPEN BORDER

Yakima County Coroner Marshal Slight says the increase in drugs coming into the America and the valley over the last 4 years through the open border caused an increase in overdoses not only in Yakima but all around America.

Now with the border fully closed Slight says he expects to see a dec

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