Hutchinson

• A Hutchinson City Council member proposed a 10-year moratorium on new data centers following public pushback in Reno County. →
• The Hutchinson City Council awarded a $1.06 million water main replacement contract to Ward Davis Builders, $400,000 under budget. →
• The City of Hutchinson secured a $1.15 million state grant to fully fund repairs for the Sixth Avenue bridge. →
• The Hutchinson City Council voted 4-1 to condemn an unsafe former worm-farm structure at 3405 E. Fourth Ave. →
• Kansas Concrete will apply a polymer epoxy overlay to fix defects on the Woodie Seat bridge at no cost to the City of Hutchinson. →
• The Hutchinson City Council awarded a $437,617 bid to APAC-Kansas Inc. for the resurfacing of northbound lanes on K-61. →
• Get ready for a scorching, windy day in Hutchinson with sunny skies and a high topping out near 99°F, alongside gusty west winds up to 33 mph.

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🌾 Kansas

• The U.S. Department of Education gave four Kansas school districts — Olathe, Shawnee Mission, Topeka and Kansas City, Kansas — until roughly June 21 to comply with Title IX gender policy requirements or risk losing federal funding. →

• Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research opened its 170,000-square-foot Hub for Advanced Manufacturing and Research on June 11, housing more than 500 student intern positions and drawing representatives from Boeing, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. military. →

• Kansas's winter wheat harvest reached 28% completion for the week ending June 14, well ahead of last year's pace, though drought pushed yields to generally 30 to 40 bushels per acre. →

• California-based Deep Fission launched a public stock offering of about 2.5 million shares to raise more than $40 million for its underground nuclear reactor pilot in Parsons, Kansas, with a Nasdaq listing planned under the ticker FISN. →

• Lionel Messi scored a hat trick in Argentina's 3-0 win over Algeria at Arrowhead Stadium on June 16, tying Miroslav Klose's record of 16 men's World Cup goals and becoming the oldest player to record a hat trick in the tournament at age 38. →

🇺🇸 US

• The IEA forecast a potential oil glut emerging next year if the Middle East peace deal holds, as a projected surge to 110 million barrels per day in production would far outpace a 2 million barrel-per-day rise in global demand. →

• Southern Republicans moved to redraw congressional maps in multiple states following a late-April Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the Voting Rights Act, targeting Democratic-held House seats by splitting districts where Black voters hold majorities. →

• Yum Brands announced June 16 it would sell Pizza Hut for $2.7 billion in two deals — $1.5 billion to private-equity firm LongRange Capital for international operations and $1.2 billion to Yum China Holdings — with both transactions expected to close in the third quarter. →

• SpaceX surpassed Amazon in market value June 16 to become the world's fifth-largest public company after signing an all-stock deal to acquire AI developer-tools startup Anysphere, maker of Cursor, in a record $60 billion merger. →

• President Trump pledged at the G7 summit in Évian, France, on June 16 to release the text of his Iran agreement within days, as G7 leaders endorsed the deal opening a 60-day window for negotiations on Iran's enriched uranium stockpile and sanctions relief. →

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JUNE 17, 1976: NBA MERGES WITH ABA

The NBA officially absorbed four ABA franchises—the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, New York (now Brooklyn) Nets and San Antonio Spurs—marking the end of the upstart rival league and a major reshaping of pro basketball. The merger brought the ABA’s up-tempo style, three-point shot and marketable stars into the NBA, helping modernize the game for a wider audience.