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CBS Sports will feature the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra during its coverage of the 2023 PGA Championship finals on Sunday, the Hickey Freeman brand of clothing will no longer be made in Rochester, and a group that advocates for people who are blind and visually impaired has legislative priorities it wants New York state lawmakers to address before their session ends next month.

The city of Buffalo paused to mark one year since a white supremacist gunman killed 10 Black people and wounded three victims at a supermarket, repair work is scheduled to begin today on an historic bridge in Brockport, and the University of Rochester has been awarded a million dollar federal grant to begin developing the next generation of lasers.

A childcare center in West Irondequoit is set to close by next summer unless the owner can find a new location for it, CBS sports announcer Jim Nantz is the first broadcaster to be added to Oak Hill’s “Hill of Fame” in advance of the PGA, and a limousine service manager was convicted of manslaughter in connection with a crash that killed 20 people in a rural part of New York's Capitol region.

Monroe County elections officials say delays in reporting results in 2022 won't happen again, an RIT professor who survived a mass school shooting 30 years ago says he has lost hope that gun violence will improve, and excitement is building at Oak Hill Country Club as the world's greatest golfers arrive for their practice rounds ahead of the PGA Championship this weekend.

Journalists at the Democrat and Chronicle will join their colleagues across the country in a walkout on Monday, a memorial service will be held this weekend for a pioneering Rochester conductor, and officials at the Strong Museum of Play say they are on track to hold their grand re-opening on June 30th.

Cannabis is expected to soon be sold legally in Rochester and the rest of the Finger Lakes region after months of litigation, the University of Rochester will no longer require COVID-19 vaccinations for students and staff, and we take a ride along the Genesee River to Lake Ontario to make the unofficial start of summer.

Most Rochester police recruits couldn’t pass the physical fitness test last year, New York's fertility rate has been on a mostly steady decline over the last two decades, and Open Theater puts on a production of the lesser-known Les Misérables non-musical play.

Supporters of the New York Heat Act are making a final push to get it passed, Nazareth College is now officially Nazareth University, and climate action advocates are calling on New York State to work with private land owners to grow more trees.

A local high school student has used her voice to improve safety procedures for people with disabilities in her school district, the University of Rochester is investigating a cybersecurity attack, and more planning is going on behind the scenes in advance of next year’s total solar eclipse.

Eastman Opera Theatre has a new artistic director at the helm, Rochester Cocktail Revival kicks off with a session exploring Deaf accessibility, and officials announce the new Buffalo Bills stadium will keep the Orchard Park name at a ceremonial groundbreaking.