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...

BUDA — The Hays CISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved a seat belt plan at its April 15 meeting, which will equip the district with a fleet of buses fitted with seat belts at the earliest possible date. On March 22, a Tom Green Elementary School bus was returning from a field trip to the Capita...

BASTROP COUNTY — On Friday, March 29, Jerry Hernandez, 42, of Bastrop, was charged with criminally negligent homicide after the bus accident that took the lives of a Hays CISD student and a man from Bastrop. At approximately 2 p.m. on Friday, March 22, Hernandez was driving a cement truck on Highway...

BUDA — Following the school bus accident that left more than 50 injured and an adult and a student deceased, Hays CISD Superintendent Eric Wright provided a status update on the aftermath of the incident. At approximately 2:17 p.m. on Friday, March 22, a Tom Green Elementary School bus was returning...

Following the bus accident that claimed the lives of an adult male and Tom Green Elementary School student on Friday, March 22, Hays CISD and the Tom Green principal have provided updates. According to principal Jennifer Hanna, there are three staff members and two students known to still be in the ...

This story has been updated at 6:03 p.m. MUSTANG RIDGE — At approximately 2:17 p.m., on Friday, March 22, Austin-Travis EMS responded to a crash near Caldwell Road in Dale, Texas, involving a rolled over school bus, a concrete truck and a passenger vehicle. According to Hays CISD Chief Communication...

HAYS COUNTY  — At its March 12 meeting, the Hays County Commissioners Court approved an interlocal agreement for a sixth Tax Increment Investment Zone (TIRZ) in the city of Kyle. This comes more than two months after another agreement, effective through Dec. 21, 2048, was approved for the city’s fif...

BUDA — Joni Perez has been named Johnson High School’s newest director of bands after Joey Lucita announced his retirement in December 2023. Perez has more than 20 years of experience in music education, but she began her musical journey early in life. While growing up, it seemed as though music enc...

KYLE — The theatre organizations from each of the Hays CISD high schools are partnering together for a fundraiser to send students to the International Thespian Event in Bloomington, Indiana in June. Initially, students competed in the Texas Thespian Festival in the Fall of 2023, then found out in N...

SUGAR LAND — A year-long, collaborative Hays CISD campaign that helped spread awareness of the dangers of fentanyl use has generated additional statewide praise for its effort in keeping students safe. On Feb. 28, Hays CISD was named a Crystal Commendation Award winner in the marketing category at t...