Veronica Volk

A Great Lakes conference hopes to bridge gaps between different people working in climate adaptation.

Dr. Daniel Wildcat is a professor at Haskall Indian Nations University, who recently wrote a book about the importance of including the knowledge of indigenous peoples in the fight against climate change.

"Before any of us in this room thought in boxes, before any of working in silos, before any of us did research that was prescribed, and detailed in our disciplines and methodologies of choice we employ, our ancestors learned, worked, thought, researched out of doors."

Six local school districts are partnering with the University of Rochester's Warner School to bring classrooms into the digital future.

The National Science Foundation had awarded the partners $3 million for a project to help train teachers to provide digitally-rich instruction. That means teaching in a classroom where students use mainly laptops and tablets to learn material and complete assignments.

Across the Great Lakes, thousands of people are expected to descend on beaches this weekend -- but not to swim.

Jennifer Caddick is a spokesperson for the Great Lakes Alliance. She says every year, in September, they help organize hundreds of beach clean ups across the Great Lakes. Volunteers collect, and categorize the trash they find, more than 85 percent of which is plastic.

Just hours after the owner of the Rochester Knighthawks lacrosse team announced he was moving the team to Halifax, Nova Scotia, the owners of the Buffalo Sabres are stepping in to keep a team here in Rochester.

Terry and Kim Pegula have announced they have been awarded a franchise in the National Lacrosse League. Their company, Pegula Sports and Entertainment, is also making a significant investment in the arena, which will help pay for a new center-hung electronic score board that is currently being installed.

People are catching record-breaking salmon in Lake Ontario this year. A report from the Department of Environmental Conservation says veteran anglers are reporting some of the best fishing in decades.

Steve LePan is a section head with the DEC for Great Lakes Fisheries.

"It's not just chinook salmon. There are a number of salmon species in the lake that we stock, and so fishing overall for all trout and salmon is also at a record-high level."

LePan credits favorable conditions for the high catch rates.

According to the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, nine people drowned in the Great Lakes over Labor Day weekend, including one unidentified man found in Lake Ontario near Wilson, NY.

Dave Benjamin is the co-founder of the GLSRP. They’ve been tracking drowning deaths since 2010, and he says this was the deadliest Labor Day Weekend they’ve recorded.

"People don’t look at drowning as a public health issue," he said. "They look at it as a recreational issue."

Two Rochester Police Department officers accused of excessive force have been suspended without pay, according to city officials.

The Monroe County District Attorney's office is also looking into possible criminal charges.

Mayor Lovely Warren says she was angered by the incident.