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Few business sectors have been hit as hard by the pandemic as restaurants. In fact, the industry is down $65 billion from 2019’s pre-pandemic levels. Shila Morris, the co-owner of the Squeeze In eateries in Nevada and California, had to close some locations for good, but her family business has fought to keep most of them afloat.
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Coming off the surge of the omicron variant, Nevada is now stepping into the third year of the pandemic. KUNR’s Gustavo Sagrero spoke with Diana Lara from the Nevada Resilience Project on the work done to help communities wade their way through this pandemic.
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What’s it like opening a restaurant during the pandemic? Rice Box Kitchen in Midtown Reno did just that. KUNR Youth Media’s Avery Thunder stopped at the restaurant to learn more.
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The world is approaching the second anniversary of a cluster of cases of respiratory illness traced to the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, in…
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The pandemic has done a number on us, in too many ways to count. Our bodies are responding with feelings of fatigue and lack of focus, experts say. Here are some tips to help you feel better.
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The runaway pandemic put more pressure on the U.S. job market last month. Employers shed 140,000 jobs as the unemployment rate held steady at 6.7%.
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Staff say lines are normal, that people get an early start so they can head to work afterward. Still, the need is stunning. "We have literally doubled the number of individuals we're serving in this drive-up distribution between March and November," says food bank head Amy Pezzani.
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The news of a promising COVID-19 vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the German company BioNTech is generating optimism this week.But in the…
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Two states in the Mountain West have some of the country’s highest unemployment rates, including Nevada, which tops the nation. Nevada’s unemployment rate…
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Nationally, the domestic abuse hotline has seen an uptick in calls since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and that trend is reflected across the...