Weddings are back in a big way. Central Texas wedding-related businesses are seeing a boom in business as more people are vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Christ Episcopal Church in Temple is set to hold a “packing party” Saturday for Honduras Good Works — a charitable organization that actively supports villagers in the El Paraiso District of Honduras through its annual medical brigade.
Gov. Greg Abbott has been saying for months that Texas is no longer restricted by the coronavirus pandemic. Face mask mandates are gone, and people are crowding back into businesses and public places.
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Jobless Texans who refuse work offers because they feel like the job isn’t safe during the pandemic won’t be able to receive unemployment benefits as of June 26, the Texas Workforce Commission announced this week.
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer
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Milam County has only seen about 50 children receive the COVID-19 vaccination, but residents now have a monetary incentive to get their youngsters inoculated.
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Baylor Scott & White hospitals and clinics are replacing employee manned screening stations with self-screening monitors, a spokesman said.
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People who are fully vaccinated are 91 percent less likely to become infected by COVID-19, according a new study by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
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Texas businesses that require customers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be denied state contracts and could lose their licenses or operating permits under legislation Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law on Monday.
Volunteers Travis Kastner of Temple, left, and James Shook of Austin load boxes of food into a vehicle Saturday during the Central Texas Food Bank distribution at Temple College.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will donate 75% of its unused COVID-19 vaccines to the U.N.-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing program, President Joe Biden announced Thursday as more Americans have been vaccinated and global inequities have become more glaring.
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Bell County Judge David Blackburn on Tuesday officially ended the local disaster declaration issued during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A community meal is planned from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Feed My Sheep, 116 W. Ave. G in Temple.
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Two food distributions are planned in June in Central Texas.
Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12, a step that could put the shot on track to become the second option for that age group in the U.S.
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The Belton Independent School District will lift its mask requirement in schools on Tuesday — a board-approved motion that followed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order forbidding governmental entities from imposing mandates.
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Based on the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a growing number of stores, churches and other businesses are welcoming uncovered faces.
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Gov. Greg Abbott told lawmakers Thursday evening that he would place the allocation of nearly $16 billion in federal funds for COVID-19 recovery on their plate during a special session in the fall.
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Since she lost her job as a customer service coordinator at a department store, Mary Baker has cut down on everything she can to make ends meet while she searches for a new job. The San Antonio resident has unsubscribed from cable, stopped paying for some of her medications and cut down sign…
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — A steady crowd of people flowed into the New England Patriots’ stadium for their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine this week in Massachusetts, which is nearing its goal of vaccinating more than 4 million and plans to close its biggest clinics in little more than a month.
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Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Tuesday banning government entities in Texas — like cities and counties — from requiring masks to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The order also says that after June 4, public schools will no longer be able to mandate masks on their campuses.
