Posted: 9:33 AM SeaWorld Entertainment Inc.'s stock surged in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Updated: 10:46 PM Airbus is continuing to expanding in Wichita, adding space and additional jobs at their Old Town locations.

Updated: 8:21 AM Dish Network is offering to buy Sprint Nextel Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal it values at $25.5 billion, saying its bid is superior to that of Japanese phone company SoftBank.

Posted: 9:20 AM Starbucks is lowering the list price of its bagged coffee to stay competitive as commodity costs ease across the industry.

Posted: 8:55 AM U.S. retail sales fell in March from February by the most in nine months

Posted: 9:14 AM A Garden City company has been acquired by an international diversified metals company.

Posted: 11:47 AM A jury in New Hampshire has found ExxonMobil liable in a long-running lawsuit over groundwater contamination by the gasoline additive MTBE.

Posted: 9:38 AM A worldwide agricultural research company has chosen northeastern Kansas for the headquarters of one of its divisions.

Updated: 9:08 AM The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits jumped by 16,000 last week, the second straight weekly increase. But the longer-term trend in layoffs remained consistent with an improved job market

Updated: 6:50 PM Beechcraft Corporation today announced it will formally protest the U.S. Air Force’s recent award of the Light Air Support contract to its Brazilian competitor, Embraer.

Updated: 1:20 PM The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that the U.S. economy has strengthened after pausing late last year but still needs the Fed's extraordinary support to help lower high unemployment.

Posted: 9:18 AM Olathe officials have approved an agreement that paves the way for Google's super-fast Internet service to be installed in the southern Johnson County community.

Updated: 7:48 PM Wink Hartman is selling the MISL franchise.

Updated: 11:28 AM Larry Lawson, an executive vice president in the business segment of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, has been chosen to replace Jeff Turner.

Posted: 10:59 AM The Kansas Association of Realtors is backing a compromise proposal to phase out all tax deductions as the state Senate prepares to debate a bill to further reduce personal income tax rates.

Posted: 8:39 AM General Motors has begun building a new paint shop at its Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, Kan.

Posted: 3:28 PM The announcement that Hostess plans to sell its Twinkies and other snack cake brands is expected to be good news for Emporia.

Posted: 8:30 AM The price of oil fell slightly Monday after strong jobs growth in the U.S. sparked speculation of an earlier end to the Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy.

Updated: 8:08 AM U.S. employers ramped up hiring in February, adding 236,000 jobs and pushing the unemployment rate down to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in January. Stronger hiring shows businesses are confident about the economy, despite higher taxes and government spending cuts.

Posted: 9:13 AM Kroger's fourth-quarter profit handily beat Wall Street expectations, as the country's largest traditional supermarket chain benefited from an extra week in the period.

Posted: 9:02 AM U.S. stocks are opening higher following a record-setting day for the Dow Jones industrial average.

Updated: 8:16 PM Wichita city leaders are working with police and business owners after a spike in the number of small retail store robberies in town.

Posted: 3:05 PM The U.S. Postal Service says it plans to close its encoding center in Wichita, causing a loss of 380 jobs.

Posted: 2:53 PM A congressional official says Boeing will propose to federal regulators a plan to temporarily fix problems with the 787 Dreamliner's batteries that have kept the planes on the ground for more than a month.