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Houses for sale in metro Rochester stayed on the market longer in July compared with a year earlier, but they still sold more quickly here than in any other large metro nationwide.
Facing an order to shut down its Finger Lakes power plant by Sept. 9, Greenidge Generation has filed suit against the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
From April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2023, Rochester’s population dropped by 4,040, or 1.9 percent, and Monroe County lost 1.4 percent of its residents.
A new analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Research and Statistics Group offers an explanation why Rochester and most of the upstate region have not regained all of the jobs lost in the pandemic downturn.
After a nearly three-week walkout, unionized Democrat and Chronicle newsroom staffers have returned to work without a new contract. For Gannett, the newspaper’s owner, mounting losses as it pursues a “digital transformation” might be a factor in its hard negotiating line.
In a video, Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley apologized for her conduct toward a Webster police officer who attempted to stop her for a speeding violation a week ago.
In his new book “And the Children Shall Lead Us,” Barry Childs recounts the roots of Africa Bridge and shares the nonprofit’s model for eradicating extreme poverty.
All participants in a new Rochester Beacon reader survey agree: Americans are polarized politically. Views vary, however, on why that’s so and what can be done about it.
Data from Common Ground Health shows the impact of social disconnection in the Finger Lakes region.
At the start of the fifth year since COVID struck, the Rochester regional economy is continuing to recover, but the rate of growth has slowed. And by several key measures, it lags New York and the nation as a whole—but is that a useful yardstick anymore?