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Rochester Gas and Electric only controls the delivery line item on customer bills, not supply costs—the driver of higher costs this winter.
Harbor House of Rochester, a health care hospitality home, will present an event this weekend in honor of Women’s History Month.
As numbers climb, advocates say Rochester and Monroe County aren’t doing enough.
Wilmot joins an elite group of cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute.
Educational reform nonprofit Rochester Education and Development for Youth helped a group of educators and nonprofit leaders design and launch new education models.
Car insurance rates have never been transparent and often seem to discriminate against the poor and people of color. Will AI tools improve fairness or make inequity even harder to detect?
Students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently partnered with Clarissa Uprooted to quantify lost generational wealth. Their analysis provides an opportunity for others to build on their work.
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2025-26 season aims to please various audiences.
In the Rochester area, most people who apply for jobs as teachers or administrators in public schools are asked before hiring to explain their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, a practice that has come under scrutiny. But under the new administration in Washington, school districts that require DEI statements now could risk the loss of federal funding.
A New York Focus investigation found that half of CIU exonerations in the state involve prosecutorial misconduct, but DAs rarely acknowledge who got it wrong.
The expected exit from receivership of East’s Upper School would mean a loss of $325,000 in funding.
NextCorps and M&T Bank have partnered on a scholarship opportunity to provide 15 to 20 entrepreneurs with business mentoring, education and resources.
The lift truck manufacturer plans to use the site to develop advanced energy solutions. The center will be operational in the spring, creating 40 new jobs.
Through community events, RIT professor Ernest Fokoué hopes to expand public awareness of data’s complexities and its power.
With homelessness rising, and our community’s children increasingly at risk, it’s time for the state to help address this burden.
The performance, inaugurating the 50th anniversary season of classical public radio station WXXI, will feature soprano Kearstin Piper Brown and musicians sponsored by the Black Students’ Union at the Eastman School of Music.
Many discarded or seized firearms are eventually destroyed, but not all. The parts that survive can become the components of new firearms—including “ghost guns” that are difficult for law enforcement agencies to trace.
The governor’s announcement of $50 million in state funds will do nothing to lift Rochester’s children out of the misery of poverty—and news reporters gave her a free pass.
The principle behind the property tax is simple, but the arithmetic gets messy with many properties of varying and changing values—which is why reassessments like the one underway in the city of Rochester are necessary.
A new Police Accountability Board report is a deep dive into policies surrounding juvenile use of force that is insightful but also limited by the scope of data from the Rochester Police Department.
Both proponents and opponents have been busy since the draft proposal was released last fall.
The second album from jazz trio CMD is another collection of new takes on favorite classic songs.
Without another extension, the agreement that established the University of Rochester’s education partnership organization to manage East Lower and Upper Schools will expire next year.
Data from Common Ground Health shows the impact of social disconnection in the Finger Lakes region.