HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Further falling prices at the gas pumps mean Kansas motorists continue to get good news when they fill up their tanks. At $1.93 per gallon, the state’s average gas price is now 31 cents lower than the national average, and the ninth cheapest in the U.S.

Kansas’ average gas price, which has fallen steadily for about the past three months, is now 15 percent lower than this time last year according to Triple-A Kansas.

Here in the Hutchinson area, nearly all of the stations have a price of $1.85 per gallon for regular unleaded.

According to Triple-A Kansas, this week’s Kansas gas price extremes are in Elkhart in Morton County with the highest price at $2.50 per gallon, while Galena in Cherokee County had the lowest at $1.72 per gallon.