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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.
After almost a half century of constant use, Howard Hanson Recital Hall has been renovated and modernized.
As Fairport prepares to update zoning regulations to meet goals outlined in its 2021 Comprehensive Plan, residents debate whether a broader range of housing options is needed in a village where most residences are single-family homes.
Parties in the case say they need time to revise the reorganization plan approved by abuse survivors to accommodate a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
A $1 million donation from alumnae and business leaders Peter and Kathleen Landers will support the hospital’s ongoing expansion project.
In the leadup to the 2024 presidential election, Rochester company Second Avenue Learning has a tool for students to learn about the political process.
Nelson Leenhouts, 88, with his twin brother, Norman, built Home Properties, one of the nation’s largest apartment companies, and later launched Home Leasing with his daughter.
Bleak House Books, a family-owned bookshop founded in Hong Kong in 2017, is striving to build a new community for bibliophiles here.
The University of Rochester Medical Center, whose UR Medicine system is the region’s largest health care provider, is trying to rein in skyrocketing labor costs.
The funds, for the first large-scale, head-to-head comparison of two heart failure drugs, brings to $54 million the total received by the URMC cardiac research team in four months.
La Madonna Della Strada, an organization started by Sister Grace Miller and her supporters, seeks to create a new center for unhoused services.
New research sheds some light on questions like these: Are e-cigarettes better or worse than cigarettes and should we tax or subsidize them?
The “math rock/post-punk” band releases its first album, “Beggar’s Pitch,” through Sad Cactus Records today.
Plans for two religious sites on the University of Rochester campus, in the works since 2015, are opposed by some students who have raised questions of exclusion, land use and urgent housing needs.
A new study says the hospital spends far less on charity care and community investment than the value it gains from its nonprofit tax exemption. Hospital officials strongly disagree with the study’s methodology.
John “Dutch” Summers Jr., who died April 7 at 84, built a business empire and became a leading Rochester philanthropist, but he did so out of the spotlight.
The latest gift from alumnus and trustee Evans Lam will expand resources for undergraduate students and address other needs at the university.
“The Jukebox: Radio Archive” gives a glimpse into the late 1990s and early 2000s.
As a journalist, Amy Bach exposed inequities in the criminal justice system—but that wasn’t enough. In 2011, she founded Measures for Justice, a Rochester-based nonprofit that provides data tools and services to help communities change the system.
In a reader poll, 80 percent supported the indictment of Donald Trump, the first former or sitting U.S. president to face criminal charges.
Four months after the cases were sent to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board for a ruling, no action has been taken or scheduled—prompting an abuse survivor’s plea to Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The $550,201 allocated to Rochester is part of $3.2 million in grants from Living Cities, which aims to address the root causes of systemic inequity in U.S. cities.
In the Rochester-Finger Lakes region, only Ontario County gained residents from April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2022.
Classes have been revamped and reopened for performers of all levels.