With President Trump’s plan to reopen states in place, thousands more filing for unemployment, and a federal program that just ran out of money for small businesses, there is growing urgency to reopen Utah’s economy.
President Donald Trump gave governors a road map Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate approach” to restoring normal activity in places that have strong testing and are seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases.
A South Jordan woman was told there was a problem with her stimulus payment. After becoming suspicious, she called KSL, and consumer investigator Matt Gephardt got on the case.
A teacher at Hunter Junior High School was in the middle of a class lesson when a 4.2 magnitude aftershock struck. Her reaction and the shaking at her home were caught on video.
Utahns have been social distancing for a while now, and new data suggests the time people have spent apart from one another is paying off. Experts said it's not only protecting the general public, but especially those with compromised immune systems.
As emergency needs from the coronavirus pandemic arise, soldiers and airmen with the Utah National Guard have stepped up, tackling critical COVID-19 projects from helping to trace patients with the virus, to making masks.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle delivered meals to L.A. residents in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The couple volunteered through Project Angel Food, a Los Angeles nonprofit that prepares and delivers medically tailored meals to chronically ill people.
The Southeast Utah Public Health Department started taking applications from local businesses, allowing them to reopen. KSL talked to one business owner who said he's excited to reopen.
More than 90% of the U.S. population is currently under a stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order as the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend life as we know it. But worries for the economy — and people's mental health — are raising the question: When will things go back to normal?
Google is giving its workers eight extra weeks of paid leave to take care of their families as the coronavirus outbreak forces schools to remain closed.
Lawmakers struggled Thursday to break a stalemate over President Donald Trump’s $250 billion emergency request for a small-business program, stoking uncertainty about when additional support will be available in a key rescue program now exhausted of funds.
Salt Lake City officials set up a nearly $1 million fund to offer a lifeline to local businesses on the verge of closing, but the money has already run out, according to a news release from the city. The $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program has also exhausted its funds, according to the Small Business Administration.
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New White House guidelines outline a phased approach to restoring normal commerce and services, but only for places with strong testing and seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases.
A tip of a body in a shed led Andover Police to one of New Jersey's largest nursing homes Monday evening where they found 17 bodies in the facility's morgue, one of the responding officers told CNN.
The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the U.S. economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million more people to seek unemployment benefits last week.
Top Chinese officials secretly determined they were likely facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus in mid-January, ordering preparations even as they downplayed it in public.
