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Adam Bergeron is looking forward to reopening the Balboa Theater, the independent movie theater in San Francisco he owns and operates.

As more and more of the United States population gets vaccinated against COVID-19, many are wondering when will enough people be vaccinated for life to return to normal?

Boat sales have increased during the pandemic. Owner of Boats Incorporated in Niantic said that he has never seen the demand so high.

Dr. J. Craig Allen, Vice President of Addiction Services at Hartford HealthCare Behavioral Health Network, explains.

A Connecticut middle school teacher who raised thousands of dollars to buy groceries for local families impacted by COVID-19 got some good news. “I got a tremendous amount of support in the past few days. About $13,000 has been sent in from all around the country,” Louis Goffinet said. With no charity or fundraising background, Goffinet started an online fundraiser…

In the early weeks of the pandemic, one thing became clear to Louis Goffinet: he needed to help. “As a teacher I was able to see pretty closely how COVID was impacting families,” said Goffinet, who teaches in a Connecticut middle school. With no charity or fundraising background, Goffinet started an online fundraiser to help his Mansfield neighbors buy groceries….

A Connecticut teacher trying to give back during the pandemic raised more than $40,000, and now he’s finding that he’s expected to pay around $16,000 in taxes on that money.

On Thursday during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on safely ending the pandemic, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan pushed Dr. Anthony Fauci to be more specific about when Americans will “get their freedom back.” Fauci responded that Jordan was making this a personal thing. “I look at it as a public health measure to prevent people from dying and going to...

With the end of the pandemic in sight, we’re all beginning to contemplate what it will be like to return to our normal lives. But it’s not going to be easy for everyone. For many people, social anxiety may keep them on the sidelines, even after the danger of the coronavirus has passed. NBCLX storyteller Eric Rodriguez explores life after...

After mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado, people claimed shootings had “slowed” during the pandemic. Why were spikes in homicides and gun injuries overlooked?

A new survey found many people are concerned about their future finances in the wake of the pandemic.

The pandemic has made 2020 the nation’s deadliest year ever for drug overdoses with a record 81,000 people overdosing during the lockdown.

The very idea of not wanting to return to “normal” would have been unthinkable a year ago. But today many have been rewired into a “new normal.” So what happens when you’re suddenly called upon to snap back to reality… the one where you have to shed the sweatpants for actual office attire?

About half of college students screened in a recent Boston University study were found to have depression or anxiety. It’s a sign of the toll the pandemic is taking on millions cut off from human connections and, for many, their goals and aspirations. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway looks from college campuses to social platforms like TikTok at the impact social...

Vaccinated fans will soon have their own sections at Miami Heat games.

Royal Caribbean cruises will soon set sail again, but only for those who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

A University of San Diego law professor is under fire for what even the school is calling disparaging and biased language used in a blog post about the suspected origin of the coronavirus, a conspiracy the Chinese government denies. Because the investigation into these remarks is just starting, NBC 7 is not naming the tenured professor or his blog page….

Seniors in the state of Connecticut are speaking out about the physical and mental toll placed on their lives by the pandemic. NBC Connecticut spoke with seniors over the over the age of 70 who say they and many of their friends have dealt with the struggle to maintain their physical health with ailments they were dealing with prior to...

A year ago, the Grand Princess captured the world’s attention when it became clear the coronavirus pandemic had arrived on the shore of California, making the virus real to millions in the United States.

Coronavirus has changed just about everything in our world, including the words and phrases we know and how we use them. As stress increased in 2020, our vocabulary changed. These linguists and sociologists explain why.