About 2,100 Rochester Gas and Electric customers lost power when thunderstorms swept across the region early this morning. The largest group of them were in Henrietta, where some 1,100 outages were reported. Other large outages were in Penfield, Irondequoit and Gates. RG&E says it had all but a couple of hundred reconnected by 7:00 a.m. […]
Even though a deal has been reached with the state to keep the Ginna Nuclear Power Plant running, Rochester Gas and Electric says it’s getting ready just in case the plant’s owners decide to shut it down in the future. To do that, RG&E says it’s going to have to dig up streets in and […]
A gas main leak in the Town of Ogden forced police to close Big Ridge Road from Ridge Meadows to Gillett Road near Spencerport. Police said gas could be heard gushing out for a considerable distance away. They said a construction crew working with a backhoe hit the main. Rochester Gas and Electric is shutting […]