Gabe Salazar enjoys watching bees. He and his family are thinking of raising the insect at home.
So when Gabe, a seventh grader at Prairie Hills Middle School in Hutchinson, heard about the bee club at school, he was on board. So were eight other middle school students at this Buhler School District middle school.
Three years ago, Victor Wilkinson and Shelly Brooks, the seventh and eighth grade science teachers, visited the Kansas State Fair and became interested in bees. They spoke to local beekeepers and brought in speakers.
Soon they applied for a grant from the Kansas Honey Producers Association.
SPECIAL REPORT: Beneath the border
Inside one of the most sophisticated cross-border tunnels in U.S. history. News 11 s Gabe Salazar reports.
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement discovered an unfinished cross-border tunnel in a residential area in San Luis, Ariz., located about 25 miles from Yuma.
This is the sixth cross-border funnel discovered in the desert southwest in a span of 15 years, and authorities have deemed it one of the most sophisticated cross-border tunnels ever found.
Vincent Dulesky, Public Information Officer for the Yuma Sector, says that the tunnel was intended for smuggling and ran from a neighborhood in San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico, to San Luis, Ariz., where it stopped short of reaching the surface.
Local taco shop tries to stay afloat without pandemic loans
News 11 s Gabe Salazar reports how El Señor Tacos de Tijuana continues to serve traditional Mexican cuisine while striving to survive the pandemic
YUMA COUNTY, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - New pandemic relief legislation is being considered by Congress, which could bring cash in the hands of small business owners and families before the end of the year.
Jesus Chavez, the owner of El Señor Tacos de Tijuana, is taking matters into his own hands as he did not receive the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program because even applying for it was difficult.