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The FBI Safe Streets Task Force is expected to be in operation early next year throughout Yakima County.

The meeting on zoom is set for 5:00 p.m. Tuesday. You can watch it live or get involved at yakimawa.gov.

Police say the two victim gang members are reluctant to talk with police as the investigation continues Today.

Police say both teens were involved with local gangs.

But this year police say gang crime is down and gang shootings so far this summer have been limited to two drive by shootings.

Sgt. David Cortez says currently about 700 gang members live in Yakima who belong to either Norteno and Soregno gangs

Authorities have arrested a suspect in Monday's killing of 14-year-old Kabin Smith of Yakima. According to a Yakima Police news release issued late Friday afternoon by Capt. Jeff Schneider, YPD and members of the Yakima County Violent Offenders Task force took the suspect, 23-year-old Luiz Barrera of Yakima, into custody at about 3:30 Friday afternoon...

Yakima, you need to sit down. It's time for a family meeting. Things are not going very well in our city. Say what you want about elections, but no one has been getting this problem right in Yakima for awhile. A lot of what ails our community can be summed up by this one map made with Google Maps: This map reminded me of a sex offender map many cities provide parents...

It's been a tough week or so concerning continued gang violence in Yakima, and it's got many of us uneasy and a bit scared. Now a new Google Map plots out the turf of some of Yakima's gangs. I know violence can strike anywhere, but some areas of Yakima might be best avoided if you don't need to go that way.

Before I moved to Yakima I heard how violent and nasty it was. Once I moved here I found that it was actually quite pleasant and, with all the rolling hills and trees, more attractive than I had been led to believe. I was also told that the violence has subsided greatly from what it was 15-20 years ago...