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Putting the pandemic behind it, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating its centennial season with an eye toward a future that blends the classics with more experimental programming and ensures the RPO is a force for good in the community.
The annual matching-gift campaign—part of the nation’s largest annual fundraising effort in support of nonprofit news organizations—runs through Dec. 31.
The six-show “Broadway in Brighton” musical series is expanding the company’s offerings and bringing national talent to Rochester.
The six-month training program aims to help build a workforce of no-code software developers.
An upstate consortium that also includes Buffalo and Syracuse is now in a select group of regions competing for billions of dollars in federal funds allocated for semiconductor manufacturing and innovation.
The Ontario battery recycler, which received a $375 million loan commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy earlier this year, plans to conduct a review of the project’s scope and budget.
The deal to buy Philadelphia’s SUMO Heavy brings deep e-commerce knowledge to Rochester-based ITX.
Left-Handed 2nd Baseman’s newest album is experimental, collaborative, and as lyrically deep as always.
The city of Rochester is starting the design phase of the Inner Loop North Transformation Project. The project will fill in a 1.5-mile stretch of the expressway, reconnecting downtown Rochester with the Public Market and the city’s Brown Square, High Falls, Upper Falls and Marketview Heights neighborhoods, and providing land for redevelopment.
The agreement comes three days before the nurses, the first to successfully organize a union in Rochester, planned a five-day strike.
An increased number of adolescents and young adults have suffered psychologically during the pandemic.
The former Rochester franchisee agreed drop his discrimination claim against the fast-food giant after it acquired his Ohio McDonald’s restaurants for $33.5 million.
The Democrats’ caucus picks an all-women leadership team, but Sabrina LaMar’s absence underscores the division that remains in the party.
Reflections on the lasting influence of a 2015 meeting with the archbishop and South Africa’s struggle for racial justice.
The move at Strong Memorial and Highland hospitals comes in response to the COVID-19 surge and nursing shortage.
Hospitals’ nursing shortage is not new, but the pandemic has pushed it to crisis levels. Many RNs have quit long-held jobs—some due to burnout, others to become higher-paid “travelers.”
The Rochester Beacon story on a Brighton elementary school’s decision to drop “Jingle Bells” from its music curriculum has sparked news coverage—and a torrent of online comments—around the nation and across the globe.
The 4,094 new COVID cases Wednesday are up from 754 a week ago, reflecting a holiday surge.
The potential for political violence continues to pose a threat to our democracy, says Gretchen Helmke, a University of Rochester political scientist and a founding member of Bright Line Watch.
Joining forces with Apex Advisors creates a firm with more than $725 million in assets under management.
In his inaugural speech, the city’s new mayor told the community that “together we will chart a path that will build a bridge to Rochester’s future.”
With infections and hospitalizations increasing, the governor says “wider steps” to combat the pandemic may be necessary.
Individual donors gave more than $20,000 during NewsMatch, the nation’s largest grassroots fundraising effort in support of nonprofit news organizations.
