Garden City Business Sold To International Company
Posted: 9:14 AM A Garden City company has been acquired by an international diversified metals company.
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: 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.
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.
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.
Updated: 8:28 PM The new company plans to focus on its piston, turboprop, defense and special mission aircraft.
Posted: 9:05 AM A Kansas House committee will hear more testimony on legislation to restrict where strip clubs can operate and what activities are permitted inside.
Posted: 3:22 PM Rising and falling stocks were evenly split on the New York Stock Exchange.
Updated: 8:31 AM The Kansas Association of Realtors plans to have dozens of members at the Statehouse to push lawmakers to preserve two popular income tax breaks for homeowners.
Updated: 7:46 PM Thieves have stolen thousands of dollars in batteries from train locomotives in the Kansas and Oklahoma train yard in southwest Wichita.
Updated: 11:15 AM The General Aviation Manufacturers Association says shipments of general aviation airplanes last year were up slightly at the same time billings decreased a bit.
