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

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 ...

As the three-year mark approaches in a court battle with ex-newspaper carriers claiming to have been sexually abused by a Democrat and Chronicle circulation department district supervisor, Gannett Co.