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The state’s highest court on Monday rejected Rochester City Council’s argument that the city’s Police Accountability Board should have the power to discipline Rochester Police Department officers.
Monroe County Democrats this week won control of both the executive and legislative branches of county government. Behind their success is a voter enrollment advantage in the suburbs built over the last two decades.
Unofficial results also showed Monroe County Executive Adam Bello’s fellow Democrats winning a majority in the county Legislature.
Patrick Dai faces a federal criminal complaint charging him with posting threats to kill or injure Jewish students on campus.
The County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency approved $63.4 million in tax incentives for the Coca-Cola subsidiary’s planned $660 million milk production facility on Tebor Road in Webster.
At the five-year mark, the Rochester Beacon continues to grow by staying sharply focused on its nonprofit mission. We’d like to thank all who have made it possible.
The latest numbers on the Rochester-area economy show the recovery from the COVID pandemic remains a work in progress.
In metropolitan Rochester, houses continue to sell faster than in any other large metro nationwide. The chief reason: extremely low inventory of available homes for sale.
Ranked by new business applications per 1,000 residents in 2022, Monroe County placed near the top third among the more than 3,100 counties nationwide.
COVID-19 has claimed more than 2,000 lives in Monroe County, but its crisis stage finally appears to be over. As many people move on from the worst pandemic in a century, Commissioner of Public Health Michael Mendoza M.D. reflects on what we’ve learned. “We could have prevented so many of those deaths,” he says.