Gov. Sam Brownback's administration appears ready to ask Kansas legislators to repeal state laws that restrict the involvement of corporations in farming.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer and the nation's largest private employer, is making a pledge to hire every veteran who wants a job.

Penn National Gaming is proposing a $7.25 million settlement with Cherokee County in a dispute over a casino that was never built.

A new owner plans to reopen an ethanol plant in Pratt that's been closed since 2008.

Hostess says it is selling most of its bread business, including the Wonder and Nature's Pride brands, to Flowers Foods Inc. for $390 million.

A Hutchinson recycling company plans an expansion that will end the need to transfer some of the region's recycling waste to a separate facility.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says a record number of new businesses filed paperwork with his office last year.

Nestle Purina PetCare is taking Waggin' Train and Canyon Creek Ranch brand dog treats off the market because the products may contain trace amounts of a poultry antibiotic that isn't approved in the U.S.

Government and railroad officials will take a special train ride this week along the deteriorating track that Amtrak's Southwest Chief uses in western Kansas.

Payless ShoeSource says it will lay off 45 people from its headquarters in Topeka.

Boeing officials say they will begin actively marketing the company's Wichita defense facilities by the end of January.

Today in Money matters --- maybe your new year's resolution was to get out of debt in 2013 and that is a worthy goal.

Gas prices dropped to $2.99 last night.

A longtime Wichita staple is closing its doors after more than 70 years in business.

Ten major banks and mortgage companies have agreed to pay $8.5 billion to settle complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in their homes.

Bank of America says it will spend more than $10 billion to settle mortgage claims resulting from the housing meltdown.

The Kansas Department of Transportation is joining Wichita's efforts to persuade Amtrak to run a passenger route through the city.

A group that wants Kansans to be able to buy liquor at grocery stores and convenience stores says it will try again to persuade state lawmakers to change state law.

U.S. antitrust regulators say they have found no evidence to claims that Google unfairly favors its own services in search results.

The Justice Department is nearing a $1.4 billion settlement with Transocean Ltd., the owner of the drilling rig that sank after an explosion killed 11 workers and spawned the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Flint Ridge 2 has 294 wind turbines on 66,000 acres in parts of Harper, Barber, Kingman and Sumner counties.

Federal investigators say Exxon Mobil Corp.'s delayed response to a pipeline break beneath Montana's Yellowstone River made the spill far worse than it otherwise would have been.

Stocks are opening sharply higher on Wall Street after lawmakers averted sweeping cuts in government spending and with a last-minute budget deal.

The price of oil jumped by over a dollar on Wednesday, to above $93 a barrel, after U.S. lawmakers passed legislation to avoid a "fiscal cliff" that could have pushed the world's biggest economy into recession.