Annual homicides in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and other big U.S. cities far outnumber those recorded here. But in 2021, Rochester had more murders per capita than any of them. A new ...

The senior living community on Baird Road will feature 76 affordable apartments for seniors. (Photo by Paul Ericson) Sometime next fall, a new, affordable senior living community on Baird Road in ...

“Jingle Bells” is one of the most performed and well-known secular holiday songs ever written, not only in the United States, but around the world. It’s the first song to have been broadcast from ...

After the Great Recession began in December 2007, the number of Rochester-area jobs plummeted. Though the recession—the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression—officially ended in summer ...

Lieselle Taylor’s metaphor for the philosophy behind community schools might seem macabre at first, but fitting when discussing children’s futures. “You may have that one young cousin or niece or ...

Through our local industrial development agency, Monroe County politicians have wasted millions of our tax dollars in a largely unsuccessful effort to stimulate more investment, create jobs, and ...

In the Rochester City School District, Edison is one of 17 locations listed as a community school.(Photo by Travis LaCoss) As Bridgitte Griffin gets on the elevator at Edison Career and Technology ...