The Rochester Beacon explores the complex challenges facing Rochester, New York, through narrative journalism, analysis and opinion grounded in facts.

“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 ...

The push to reduce the economy’s dependence on fossil fuels has spurred a drive to electrify sectors from transportation to heating. Although distributed generation—electricity generated from sources ...

Mural of Edgar Santa Cruz and Rosey at Lincoln Library Just before 6 p.m. on Dec. 22, 2022, Edgar Santa Cruz and his dog, Rosey, were struck by a car and killed crossing South Goodman at Park Avenue.

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 ...

Antonio Perez, center, was named CEO of Kodak in 2005, following Daniel Carp’s retirement. At its zenith, Kodak combined technical excellence in chemistry with scale economies in manufacturing to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sharkisha Cummins found herself struggling simultaneously with depression and the difficulty of communicating with her white therapist. “There were just too many ways that I just wasn’t (being) heard ...