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Starting Friday, New York will ban the sale of flavored e-cigarette liquids, cartridges and devices for 90 days in response to the nationwide outbreak of lung injury and deaths linked to vaping. Gov. Andrew Cuomo cited the health questions about ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a new law Monday that will enable undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. The state Senate passed the bill, which the Assembly passed last week, on Monday and Cuomo quickly signed it into law. ...

The weather forecast may not show any signs of summer, but the festival schedule does. The summer festival season kicks off with the start of the Rochester Lilac Festival on Friday. From now through September, Rochesterians will have dozens of ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NY, visited Rochester on Monday to call for changes in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act after Friendly’s locations across upstate New York closed with almost no notice for employees. The WARN Act ...

In a recent interview with the Rochester Business Journal, JPMorgan Chase’s Jim Glassman, head economist for commercial banking, and Bob McArdle, Western New York executive director for commercial banking, discussed the economy and where it’s heading. In response to a ...

The Trump administration on Monday called for the entire Affordable Care Act to be struck down in a filing with a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The Justice Department, which stopped defending key parts of the law in June, ...

Hart’s Local Grocers announced on Monday that it will be closing on March 24. The grocery store will hold a close-out sale the week of March 18. Hart’s opened in 2014 as the first full-service grocery store downtown in more ...

The New York state Legislature passed legislation Monday that makes it a misdemeanor offense to fail to securely store a rifle, shotgun or other firearm or render it incapable of being fired when a child is in a home. Sponsored ...

As communities across the country deal with measles outbreaks, discussions have increased about whether “philosophical” exemptions to childhood vaccinations should be allowed. In New York, a measure to drop an exemption due to religious beliefs that Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, D-Bronx, ...

Rochester City Council held a public forum Monday on the council draft for a Police Accountability Board that would significantly change how police misconduct is investigated. Plans for a Police Accountability Board have been hotly debated, with the PAB Alliance—an ...

The government shutdown stretched past the one-month mark this week, and it has already had a number of effects. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees have not been paid, though some of them are still working. Limited or no staffing ...

Starting Tuesday, New York City pharmacies will not be allowed to sell cigarettes or other tobacco products. The ban includes businesses that contain pharmacies, such as supermarkets and big-box stores. The new rules follow a ban on electronic cigarette sales ...

A committee created earlier this year to issue a report on increasing pay for New York lawmakers released its final recommendations Monday. The committee recommended significantly increasing the salaries for legislators and other state lawmakers while also drastically limiting stipends ...

State Sen. Kevin Parker, D-Brooklyn, has proposed a bill that would require the police to check the social media activity and online searches of handgun license applicants and deny anyone who has published violent or hateful posts. Handgun applicants would ...

Two of Rochester’s former Big Three manufacturers—Eastman Kodak Co. and Bausch Health Cos. Inc.—announced promising news this week. Kodak announced Monday that it sold its Flexographic Packaging Division for an estimated $390 million. The acquisition is expected to close in ...