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Recently passed legislation will provide $304 million to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for lead-based paint hazard remediation. The funding, pushed for by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is an increase of $49 million from fiscal year 2018. There ...

St. Ann’s Community has partnered with the Diocese of Rochester Catholic schools to provide family tuition assistance to nursing employees. Starting on a four-year trial run, the program will provide reimbursement to nursing staff whose children’s schools are in the ...

Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, will be the university’s commencement speaker May 19. Strickland now teaches physics at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, but was recognized by the Nobel ...

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Rochester Regional Health System has settled a false claims lawsuit with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, although details of the resolution have not been disclosed. The case involves millions of dollars in improper Medicare and Medicaid payments between January 2010 and ...

Mixed-use developments are trending in urban areas across the country as people seek to live in and around downtown areas where jobs and leisure activities are plentiful, but financial experts say a tendency to look at mixed-use developments as a ...

Visit Rochester will welcome 2,300 high school students this week for the annual DECA State Career Conference. The best and brightest high school students from across the state will visit the region as part of the Distributive Education Clubs of ...

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A group opposing the Whole Foods grocery store project on Monroe Avenue has filed a new suit against the Town of Brighton over a document request it says was improperly handled. The suit, filed Friday in Monroe County Supreme Court, ...

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Cause + Effect Strategy and Marketing announced growth of 83 percent for 2018, another stellar year for the data insight and analytics firm. Founded in 2015 by John Loury and Mike Sutton, the Henrietta-based agency added 10 clients, including Monro ...

Roc the Future, an alliance of more than 60 leading Rochester institutions, on Monday launched a new initiative to transform the Rochester City School District. Our Children, Our Future is a community partnership committed to working with the state’s Education ...

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The U.S. manufacturing sector continued to expand in February, but at a slower pace than in several previous months. The monthly IHS Markit U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) shows a softer, but still solid, improvement in operating conditions across ...

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The Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance in May will celebrate its 100th anniversary at a gala honoring the nonprofit organization’s past, present and future. The May 4 event will be presented by CK Cellars and will be held at the Ramada ...

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Local banks say the Rochester-area market for commercial real estate (CRE) loans is in good shape. “In terms of loan originations and loan production, we’re really as busy as we have ever been,” says Richard Mueller, group manager of commercial ...

Students at the Northeast College High School in Rochester got a taste of computer coding this week with the launch of a program aimed at bringing this hot job skill to city students. The program is a joint effort between ...

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The 19th Ward, two areas in Northeast Rochester and a section of Greece were among the most profitable spots for home-flippers in Monroe County in 2018. The highest average gross return on investment, percentage wise, for flipped houses occurred in ...

The fast-food industry has a game-changer in town. Sisu Eats, which has been open for about six months, is the brainchild of John Klein. Klein, 28, has been sitting on the idea for a healthy fast-food restaurant for a while. ...