A 20-year effort to re-establish the sturgeon in Lake Ontario led to the release of 1,000 young fish into the Genesee River today; one group out of 4,000 being released along the lake this week. DEC and US Fish and Wildlife Service officials say the sturgeon were nearly wiped out in the Great Lakes […]
No arrest has been made yet in the murder of Shaquan McMillan, now identified as the young Rochester man shot dead outside Ontario Beach Park in Charlotte early Sunday morning. Rochester Police were called to the area and found the victim lying in the road on Beach Avenue. He’d been shot in a nearby parking […]
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will complete a massive dredging project at the Port of Rochester and Irondequoit Bay this week, getting both federal waterways dug out to their authorized depth for the first time in years. With this year’s high water it’s not as much of an issue, but […]