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For years, advocates for farmworkers have lobbied to end exemptions to labor laws that exist on farms but with little success. Since Democrats took control of the state Senate last fall, however, a new effort concerning farm interests introduced by ...

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If you were an early investor in a Robert Morgan real estate fund, you probably made out quite well. You received your promised 11 percent rate of return from the Note Fund, and it arrived on time. Hopefully you didn’t ...

BUFFALO — Robert Morgan’s real estate empire may be on the verge of crumbling following today’s 114-count superseding indictment by federal authorities that charges him with wire and bank fraud in an alleged $500 million mortgage fraud scheme. Morgan, founder and ...

Housing developments in LeRoy, Sweden, Canandaigua and Seneca Falls will share in $14 million of state funding, helping to create or preserve 256 affordable homes. The funding is part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s five-year, $20 billion Housing Plan and made ...

Mayor Lovely Warren’s proposed $552 million spending plan for fiscal year 2019-20 will cost the typical Rochester homeowner $49.56 more a year but closes to zero the $38.7 million gap faced when the budgeting process began. The city also said ...

Two groups have come together at the Rochester City Public Market to make sure tons of food waste are used for animal feed or turned into compost instead of being trucked to a landfill. The joint efforts of Flower City ...

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Louise M. Slaughter’s congressional papers are being donated to the University of Rochester. The late congresswoman, who died in 2018 while still in Congress, represented the Rochester area for 31 years and 16 terms. The university announced the donation from ...

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As New York’s legislature moves closer to making sports betting a legal reality at the state’s four full casinos, del Lago Resort & Casino has begun construction on its DraftKings Sportsbook. The 6,000-square-foot-plus lounge will be built in the space ...

With a continuing acute shortage of workers in the skilled trades, Monroe County and The Builders Exchange of Rochester are joining forces on the recruiting trail. Construction Career Day will educate students on available jobs in the skilled trades. The ...

Monroe County is suing Normal Communications and the advertising agency’s principal partner, claiming there is a past-due balance of $564,000 from ad sales at the Greater Rochester International Airport. The papers were filed Monday morning in state Supreme Court in ...

Gone is the camping stove. In its place, a shiny new commercial grade range and oven. Food demonstrations at the Rochester City Public Market just got a huge upgrade with the opening Thursday morning of the new Public Market Nutrition ...

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Bergmann’s waterways experts will provide statewide flood protection services to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Water Program. The state Office of General Services has awarded a five-year contract to Bergmann for assistance with coastal management, ...

T-Mobile plans to bring up to 1,300 jobs to Henrietta with a newly created customer experience center (CEC), although the company said it can’t provide any timetable for hiring or opening because the Justice Department still hasn’t approved a proposed ...

A Holley contractor was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $600,000 in restitution for defrauding the New York State and United States transportation departments. Nathaniel P. Lorenz, 47, also must serve a two-year supervised release ...

While 350 new jobs were tied to a 2015 Frontier Communications expansion project that received a tax break from Monroe County, there was no requirement that any or all of those employees be retained for any specified length of time. ...