KYLE — After being shut down in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kyle Area Youth Advisory Council (KAYAC) is back. What started years before the pandemic in 2013, KAYAC is a committee of students in grades 9-12 who all live in the Kyle city limits or attend a Hays CISD school. The committee is...

HAYS COUNTY — The fentanyl crisis has hit far too close to home. Since the summer of 2022, Hays CISD has experienced six student deaths related to fentanyl overdoses and poisonings. But it’s not just a local issue — more than 100,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses and poisonings in the 12...

HAYS COUNTY — As spring fades to summer and temperatures soar, Kyle Police Department, Wimberley ISD and Hays CISD officials are taking a proactive approach to idle hands and less adult supervision in order to warn students and parents alike of a dangerous drug — fentanyl. When a suspected overdose ...