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A local photographer hopes her take on the holiday popularized by the TV show “Parks and Recreation” can encourage body positivity among women.
The UR Nursing Scholars Program will reimburse all tuition costs annually for 33 Accelerated Bachelor’s in Nursing students at the university.
The complexity of the 2021 Cannabis Law is reflected in the delayed implementation. But this much is clear: New York’s legalization is bedeviled by conflicting objectives.
The gift from Eastman alumnus Susan Ain and her husband, Aron, establishes a newly endowed violin professorship. It comes during the school’s centennial campaign.
Executive Director Ann Costello has spent 23 years at the helm of the foundation that Paychex founder Tom Golisano established in 1985 to help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The Pre-Seed and Seed Matching Fund Program will offer eligible businesses $50,000 to $250,000 in growth assistance.
Firearm homicides and property crime rose, but overall crime rates are lower than a decade ago.
Individual donors contributed nearly $25,000 to the Beacon during NewsMatch, the nation’s largest grassroots fundraising effort in support of nonprofit news organizations.
Dramatic declines in circulation and newsroom staff, along with financial woes at parent company Gannett, have taken a toll on Rochester’s daily newspaper.
Rochester Institute of Technology is slated to receive federal funds to update and expand its Semiconductor Fabrication Lab.
The Department of Music has been named for alumnus Arthur Satz, whose donation will fund a minimum of five humanities professorships in the the School of Arts and Sciences.
Serology tests that focus on the immune system’s response to COVID can identify who has had the virus and might help answer key questions about survivors’ immunity against reinfection. But for someone who tests positive, much uncertainty remains.
Democratic incumbent Jamie Romeo and Republican challenger Karla Boyce agree on the need to improve the way the clerk’s office functions—but not on how to do it.
There are questions we all should be asking ourselves in relation to police policies and conduct
Morelle has a big monetary lead over Republican George Mitris, his challenger in the 25th Congressional District race.
As director of press communications for Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, the Rochester native has a high-pressure job that at times puts her in direct touch with the president.
The world of music performance has been disrupted by COVID-19. With their traditional score ripped apart, musicians from the RPO and other groups have responded with creativity and imagination.
In a Rochester Beacon online forum, renowned political journalists Tom Hamburger and John Harris discussed the challenges of producing in-depth reporting in an era of hyper-partisanship and news cycles driven by social media.
Starting a career in education during a pandemic is not ideal, but it’s still possible to build vital relationships with students.
A string of rusty, peeling fire hydrants in Fairport have undergone brightly whimsical, multicolored transformations. They are the creations of a village resident for whom the pandemic had brought societal decay into sharper relief.
Rochester’s mayor and two others were indicted by a grand jury for campaign finance violations allegedly committed during the last city mayoral race.
Marc Badain, president of the NFL’s Las Vegas franchise, leads the team he rooted for while growing up in Bills country.
The death of Daniel Prude has caused a deep breach between Rochester police and the people they serve. Does another divide—on how to respond—separate elders and younger members of the Black community?
C-SPAN’s Steve Scully worked as an on-air reporter at WHEC-TV 10 in the late 1980s.