Beth Adams

The nonprofit, which preserves and protects natural lands and waterways in the eight-county region surrounding Rochester, recently passed the 10,000-acre mark with its latest acquisitions.

Stargazers will be treated to one of the best celestial shows of the year this week.

It's back to school time, and for some students, the beginning of their college career. It's a big life transition for both students and their families.

Seneca Park Zoo has a new female red panda. Rose was transferred to our local zoo from Zoo Atlanta as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' breeding program.

Some of WXXI's broadcast television and radio services will be intermittently interrupted this week, if planned tower maintenance work proceeds as scheduled.

Three upstate New York counties have reported measles cases over the past week.

The state attorney general's office has a new, online guide to help New Yorkers get financial assistance if they cannot afford their hospital bills.

Just two miles south of downtown Rochester, behind the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence on South Plymouth Avenue, is a spacious lawn where neighborhood kids come to play and people connect to a solar-powered Wi-Fi table.

It's not even September, but the leaves on many maple trees across upstate New York have been turning brown and falling.

Following a more than two-year search, the city of Rochester has hired a full-time veterinarian for its Verona Street shelter.