Rochester NY

A man was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation after a tense standoff with police on Park Avenue near Rowley Street.

Rochester, N.Y. — Highland Hospital confirmed that Marlowe is the first baby born in the Rochester area in 2026. Marlowe's parents, Sydney and Tim Provo, said their daughter arrived just three minutes after midnight on New Year's Day. Marlowe weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces at birth. Marlowe joins an...

Masks are making a comeback inside Finger Lakes hospitals as flu and respiratory illnesses spike to record levels across New York. Health systems in Cayuga County and the Rochester region have rolled out new masking rules for staff, citing a surge in flu, COVID-19, and RSV cases and growing pressure on hospitals...

Rochester is mourning the loss of Bishop Jerry McCullough Sr., the founder of Faith Temple Apostolic Church Ministries, who died this week.

Rochester Police are trying to determine where a woman was shot after she showed up at Rochester General Hospital for treatment on Friday morning.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — On December 15, the Rochester City Council voted to increase its salary to $50,000, a 25% increase. Today, January 2, they’ve voted to reverse this decision due to public concern. In the December vote, a 5-4 vote ruled to increase their pay. The original proposed salary increase was 3%, but...

Eleven-year-old Isaac Pompili of Spencerport has his NASA Apollo Saturn V LEGO® build on display at the Rochester Museum & Science Center in conjunction with its Astronaut exhibit. It was Isaac’s father, Joe, an RMSC member since 2019, who reached out to the museum in August 2025 to offer a loan of his son’s rocket...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A Rochester teenager accused of killing his father Monday was in court Friday on murder and weapons charges. Devin McBride Jr., 17, appeared briefly in court wearing shackles and a mask. He is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection...

The list includes tackling financial challenges, rewriting Rochester's zoning codes and addressing homelessness and affordability.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The GoodPhone Project celebrated the expansion of free communication access in Rochester with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, unveiling three new citywide phone installations. The new installations will allow residents to make calls across the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico...