Hays

• HaysMed in Hays was awarded state funding from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to install a permanent PET/CT scanner. →
• Discounted advance tickets are now on sale for the 2026 Hays Wild West Festival, taking place in Hays from July 1 to July 4. →
• The Hays City Commission voted 3-1 to sponsor a $300,000 Community Development Block Grant application for a downtown Airbnb project. →
• The Hays City Commission approved the annexation and light-industrial rezoning of a property at 1375 East 41st Street. →
• We've got a mostly sunny and hot Monday ahead in Hays with a high near 90°F, though you might want to keep an eye out for a passing morning shower as there is a slight 20% chance of rain today.

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🌾 Kansas

• Republican Secretary of State Scott Schwab filed for Kansas governor May 29, naming state Rep. Ken Rahjes of Agra as his lieutenant governor running mate ahead of the June 1 filing deadline. →

• Kansas's online voter registration system was down for roughly 24 hours beginning May 30 after a Kansas Department of Revenue outage, disrupting access just before the June 1 party-change deadline for the Aug. 4 primary. →

• Kansas awarded $79.1 million in grants to bolster rural health care infrastructure, with funds split between regional partnerships and rural hospital conversion programs across the state. →

• Federal officials and the aviation industry remain at odds over a $50,000-per-plane ADS-B cockpit fix more than a year after a midair collision near Washington killed 67 people aboard an American Airlines regional jet from Wichita. →

• The 2026 KSHSAA State Track and Field Championships at Wichita State University ran past 10 p.m. May 30 after two lightning delays halted competition for more than three hours. →

🇺🇸 US

• GE Appliances is moving production of a combination washer-dryer from China to a vacant Louisville, Kentucky, plant, where roughly 800 workers will begin manufacturing the appliances next spring as part of the Chinese-owned company's $6.5 billion domestic expansion effort. →

• A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" settlement fund — created to resolve Trump's lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns — pending a June 12 hearing on challenges filed by Democracy Forward and others who say they were politically targeted but will be excluded. →

• A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center to remove President Trump's name from its facade and branding within 14 days, ruling that a 1964 law requires the institution to bear John F. Kennedy's name and blocking a planned closure for renovations. →

• Rapidly rising costs are prompting large companies to ration artificial intelligence usage after some firms exhausted annual AI budgets within three months, with corporate leaders steering workers toward cheaper in-house tools as token prices climb. →

• The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend — with American warplanes hitting Iranian air-defense and drone sites and U.S. fighters downing two Iranian drones — even as both sides negotiated a memorandum of understanding to extend a ceasefire and address Iran's nuclear program. →

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