British composer Karl Jenkins’ globally popular “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” will have its Rochester premiere this Sunday at the Finger Lakes Choral Festival.

Little Button Craft, which this year marks a decade in business, is conducting a fundraiser to help it remain a space for vibrant acceptance and artistic accessibility.

Chris Hastings, who became WXXI’s top executive last November, has a plan to help the public media nonprofit weather the shock of lost federal funding.

New York is moving certain elections to even-numbered years in a bid to increase democratic engagement. It’s a good step, but ...

The $30,000 funding loss for SummerWrite, a storytelling program for children, represents a quarter of the program’s total budget.

Excell Technology Ventures, a Rochester-based venture capital fund investing in high-growth, high-tech startups across Upstate New York, at year-end 2024 had more than $80 million under management ...

The Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Sierra Club have filed a lawsuit challenging the Genesee County Economic Development Center’s approval of a $6.3 billion data center at the Science and Technology ...

I called my doctor’s office the other day to renew a prescription. During the brief conversation, a young staffer showered me with high praise. I gave my name. Peter Lovenheim “Perfect,” she said.

- The Rochester Beacon explores the complex challenges facing Rochester, New York, through narrative journalism, analysis and opinion grounded in facts. New York is moving certain elections to ...