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  Rochester’s health care providers believe they can more than double the number of available hospital beds within existing facilities to more than 4,000 should there be a wave of serious COVID-19 cases due to the coronavirus pandemic. But doctors ...

Common Cause New York says a logical solution exists to ensure all registered voters in the state can participate in the upcoming primaries as well as make voting easier in future elections. Common Cause believes the coronavirus pandemic has made ...

HUNT Real Estate ERA was the top-ranked family owned realty firm headquartered in New York based on 2019 sales data compiled by REAL Trends. REAL Trends ranked the top 500 firms in the country in transactions and sales volume. Buffalo-based ...

Fred Corsi was supposed to be sending criminals to prison; that was his intention leaving law school and why the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office in downtown Pittsburgh had a job waiting for him upon graduation from the University of ...

A small-business emergency loan program has been created by Monroe County that aims to provide up to $10,000 in no-interest funding within seven days. The program, approved Wednesday by the Monroe County Industrial Development Corp., offers zero-interest loans of up ...

The four Department of Motor Vehicles locations in Monroe County (Greece, Irondequoit, Henrietta and Rochester) will be closed indefinitely for all in-person transactions. There was an automatic extension of validity on driver’s licenses and non-driver identification cards that expired on ...

Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach is taking its 40th anniversary celebration online on Saturday evening, highlighted by an online fundraising auction. Home Leasing has committed to match up to $40,000 in auction proceeds. Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach is a ministry of ...

Monroe County has created a job portal to connect essential businesses that are looking to hire during the coronavirus crisis with healthy individuals who are looking for work. The hope is that a single employment platform will streamline the hiring process ...

Anticipated approval of $2 trillion in emergency legislation means small businesses can continue to pay employees, laid-off workers will receive full pay for four months and local governments and health care providers can continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “This ...

One business deemed essential, a commercial glass company in Wyoming County, is helping another essential firm keep employees a little safer during this coronavirus emergency. Robb’s Glass in Warsaw was commissioned by a regional bank to create an acrylic counter ...

In normal times, M3Dimensions would be bettering the surgical process for veterinarians and providing veterinary students with 3D models to enhance learning. But during this global coronavirus pandemic, the Rochester-based medical device company is instead creating lightweight, protective face shields ...

After more than 100 years as the home to Lawyers Cooperative and the legal publishing firm’s recent iteration, Thomson Reuters, the Aqueduct Building has been sold. The downtown landmark, identifiable by a 21-foot statue of Mercury that sits high atop ...

An abundance of room and event cancellations has prompted the Holiday Inn Rochester Downtown to shutter operations until May 1. General Manager Paul Kremp said in a news release that there had already been thousands of dollars in room and ...

Taxpayers in Monroe County and the city of Rochester now have an extra month to pay property taxes. County Executive Adam Bello has signed an executive order, extending the due date for the third installment of town and county real ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all workers for “non-essential” businesses to stay home and threatened civil fines or mandatory closure to those employers who don’t comply. The edict goes in effect at 8 p.m. Sunday. He also said all public gatherings ...