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Creating a vibrant and equitable Monroe County as a great place to live, work and raise a family can be achieved through focus on pillars of stability: economic and workforce development, public safety, public health and wellness and infrastructure. That ...

  The proposed city of Rochester budget includes a 9.6 percent increase in spending — with public safety, neighborhoods and economic empowerment among the priorities — but no change in the tax levy. Mayor Malik Evans unveiled on Friday morning ...

Rochester Mayor Malik Evans and New York State’s Regional Director of Empire State Development Vinnie Esposito announced the start of the Aqueduct Reimagined project.

Rochester is on its way to becoming a national hub for technology innovation. Experts predict that it has the highest potential of any city in America for developing high-tech, high-income jobs. It’s incredible news for the region’s economic development. Area ...

Kevin Schulte doesn’t mince words when it comes to whether a business should consider solar energy options. “Right now, in 2022, is the greatest opportunity to invest in clean energy and clean energy technologies than there has been in the ...

AT&T customers and First Net subscribers in Monroe, Genesee and Livingston counties recently got a boost in wireless connectivity with new cell sites to enhance the area’s mobile broadband coverage and help give residents and first responders faster, more reliable ...

Just In Time (JIT) is a production method pioneered in the 1930s by Toyota Motor Corporation as a means to reduce overproduction — the time a product spends going through production — and excess inventory. It became highly popular in ...

State lawmakers representing the Rochester region will push Gov. Kathy Hochul to bump funding by an additional $10 million so the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transit Authority (RTS) can expand and upgrade services. RTS has asked for a 36 percent increase in ...

The first in-person Plan Forward public workshop for shaping Monroe County’s comprehensive plan will take place from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on March 30 at the Roger Robach Community Center (180 Beach Ave. in Rochester). County leaders want public ...

La Fermière will establish its U.S. production operations in Genesee County.   The company has committed to constructing a 45,000 square-foot yogurt and dairy desserts production facility at Genesee Valley Agri-Business Park in Batavia, with plans for future, additional expansion. ...

The $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package passed by Congress includes $9 million in funding for projects in the Finger Lakes. “This funding mean jobs, new businesses, feeding the hungry, bridging the digital divide and better serving the public,” U.S. Sen. ...

Buoyed by more than $200 million in private investment along the site of the former Inner Loop East, city officials are ready to convert what remains of the sunken roadway.

Controlling interest in Greenlight Networks is being acquired by Oak Hill Capital.

The U.S. government's cybersecurity experts are warning owners of businesses, large and small, to step up precautionary measures as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues.

The future of Monroe County will be the focus of a series of virtual and in-person sessions as leaders create the first update to the county’s comprehensive plan in 40 years. The first Plan Forward community workshop will be from ...