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The judge ruled, however, that the Department of Environmental Conservation has the authority to deny the renewal application for the power plant used for bitcoin mining and sent the matter back to the agency for further proceedings.
Nearly 60 percent of Monroe County voters cast their ballots for Democrat Kamala Harris, but surrounding counties—and the nation as a whole—chose Republican Donald Trump for president. The outcome of the 2024 election shocked and dismayed many Rochester Beacon readers. (AP Photo)
While former President Donald Trump was leading Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential contest late Tuesday, area Democrats posted strong showings.
The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Gannett papers are part of an accelerating trend. When a newspaper stops endorsing presidential candidates, is it “a principled decision” or “cowardice, with democracy as its casualty”?
Launched on Oct. 18, 2018, the Rochester Beacon beat the odds and continues to grow. By the end of the month, total website pageviews will top 2 million.
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.