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Plans for a business improvement district in downtown Rochester are moving into a new phase of community outreach, but winning over BID foes could be difficult.
Seen as a tipping point for artificial intelligence, the trained large language model interacts with users through conversation. The Beacon posed four questions to see what ChatGPT would tell us about our community.
With a $1 million gift from alumnus John Traver, the university’s Transforming RIT: The Campaign for Greatness campaign surpassed its goal.
A new FBI report shows a rise in hate crimes across the nation, but Monroe County may be an exception. Still, this region is not immune to the threat.
The governor’s proposal to fund and require high-impact tutoring in schools is a needed investment that would benefit New York’s most vulnerable kids.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester’s plan in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy ushers abuse survivors into the final stretch.
Shaun Nelms, superintendent of the East Educational Partnership Organization, will become vice president of community partnerships.
Florence Dore, an unabashed rock ’n’ roll fan and scholar, comes to Rochester next week.
A group called ROC Teachers in Action is fielding candidates including Audrey Sowell, a School No. 17 teacher who will challenge the longtime RTA president.
A judge will decide whether primary-care doctor Sudipt Deshmukh caused one patient’s overdose death and fueled another’s addiction by recklessly prescribing opioids.
Cressida Dixon, a partner in Bond, Schoeneck & King’s Rochester office, started Jan. 1. Her first few months on the job have included responding to requests from the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s office to track down relatives of individuals who died alone.
The $240 million project will be housed at the Marketplace Mall in Henrietta. It will be three times the size of UR Medicine’s orthopaedic outpatient clinic at Clinton Crossings.
In many metros nationwide, the pandemic has forced landlords to drop their rents to retain and attract residential tenants. Not in Rochester.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine was approved last weekend. Though less effective at preventing all types of infections than the two other options, it protects just as well against COVID’s most severe effects, experts say.
The alternative energy technology provider plans to construct a $290 million green hydrogen fuel production facility at the site at STAMP in Genesee County.
Rochester Regional Health and the University of Rochester Medical Center are among only four institutions nationally conducting a new clinical trial of a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Rochester last year experienced the highest year-over-year increase in its homicide rate in a decade.
Amazon’s plan for 3 million square feet of new construction and more than 1,000 jobs in Gates looks like a big win for Monroe County. But is a mammoth fulfillment center a net gain for the local economy?
Attorney General Letitia James announced the decision in Rochester, saying that “the criminal justice system has frustrated efforts to hold law enforcement officers accountable for the unjustified killing of unarmed African Americans.”
Ibram Kendi’s speech, the university’s 20th Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address, will be a free online event.
Since its move to downtown Rochester’s Innovation Zone in early 2018, the entrepreneurship and innovation catalyst has nurtured 106 startups.
Hyzon Motors, established here in 2020, plans to create 100 jobs at the former GM facility in Honeoye Falls. The news follows Plug Power’s decision to create an innovation center in Rochester.
For small financial institutions in the Rochester region, 2020 was a surprisingly good year, with strong demand for residential mortgages and PPP loans to small businesses.
Herb Washington, a champion sprinter and Oakland A’s baseball player who launched his business career here, became the fast-food giant’s largest U.S. Black franchise operator. Now, he alleges that McDonald’s systemically discriminated against him and other Black franchisees.