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More than two and a half years into the pandemic, many businesses have had to curb their hours of operations or services as they continue to grapple with labor shortages.

There is a hearing scheduled at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Tuesday to “evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the state’s teacher workforce.”

The Texas House of Representatives Public Education Committee will be meeting to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the state’s teacher workforce, and current practices to improve the recruitment, preparation, andretention of high-quality educators.

The Denton County Homeless Coalition is set to provide a report on Thursday that will paint the clearest picture yet of just how many people are experiencing homelessness in that community.

Climate change can make diseases stronger, or weaken humans and their ability to fight infections, researchers say. And another consequence of climate change, the melting Arctic permafrost, released ancient frozen bacteria that were frozen for thousands of years. Erik Franklin, professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, joins LX News.

Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.

The World Health Organization, WHO, on Saturday declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. The designation puts Monkeypox on the same list as other other outbreaks such as, COVID-19, Zika, H1N1 Flu, Polio, and Ebola

The Pfizer pill, Paxlovid, is intended for people with COVID-19 who are more likely to become seriously ill. Previously only doctors could prescribe the drug

China has attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie. The response came after the World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is needed into whether a lab accident may be to blame. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson also rejected accusations...

White House officials say orders have been coming in for COVID-19 vaccine doses for small children. Federal authorization of shots for U.S. kids under 5 is possible next week. The government last week began allowing pharmacies and states to place orders, with 5 million doses initially available. So far, about 1.45 million of the 2.5 million available doses of Pfizer...

A Dallas restaurant that vowed to reopen after being shut down during the pandemic is finally doing just that – more than 800 days after it closed.

Three prominent North Texas school leaders spoke at length this week about their feelings on each of those controversial issues like critical race theory, pulling books from school libraries, and remote learning during the pandemic.

Three prominent North Texas school leaders spoke at length this week about their feelings on each of those controversial issues like critical race theory, pulling books from school libraries, and remote learning during the pandemic.

The U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool says that nearly three dozen companies worldwide will soon start making generic versions of Pfizer’s coronavirus pill

New research out this week confirms what many doctors had feared; cancer screenings dropped significantly during the pandemic and as Bianca Castro reports, the fear now is that cancer is going undetected in thousands of North Texans.

I showed up to meet Marcus Robinson and his girlfriend, Brittney Price, on a weekday afternoon in Los Angeles. They invited me into their home, where they had just signed the lease. They told me it was a challenge to land this place just a few blocks from downtown. Robinson and Price are both freelance artists. Like many, the pandemic…

In 2021, rent rose about 14% across the country, the biggest surge in over two years. Of the 10 U.S. cities with the highest average rent, six, including Los Angeles, are in California. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadways talks to one couple, both artists, who were hit hard by the rent spike and explores potential solutions.

Friday marks two years since Texas reported its first confirmed case of COVID-19, and a lot has changed since then — from testing sites, to vaccines to how businesses operate.

Marin Wolf with The Dallas Morning News joins NBC 5 to discuss the wave of grief caused by loss during the coronavirus pandemic.

Canada’s trucker protest, which grew until it closed a handful of Canada-U.S. border posts and shut down key parts of the capital city for weeks, could echo for years in Canadian politics and perhaps south of the border