Jeremy Moule

The $1.5 billion budget for 2025 will also lower the county property tax rate.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed legislation that will let families applying for child care assistance receive the subsidies while their eligibility is under review.

But the full Legislature will consider the appointment of clinical psychologist Emma Forbes-Jones at its January meeting. Democrats provided the votes needed to move the recommendation to appoint her out of committee.

Throughout the holidays, your lush, tinseled, and decked tree has served as a festive centerpiece. But soon its needles will begin falling and it won't look so merry.

Monroe County and the town of Perinton have been awarded state grant money to help recruit lifeguards.

Rochester Gas and Electric will use the money to begin upgrading a substation and increasing its capacity.

While an effort to increase the electricity supply in Henrietta made headlines this week, even higher-priced projects are in the offing to address supply bottlenecks in Brighton and Penfield.

A new team will review overdose fatalities and use its findings to recommend approaches to the ongoing crisis.

The GOP caucus in the Monroe County Legislature objected to the backgrounds of both candidates, one of whom provides care to trans and nonbinary adults, adolescents, and children. Democrats, who are in the majority, provided the votes to approve the appointments.

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect and analyze a sample from the asteroid Bennu.