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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an Air Quality Alert until midnight for Rochester the rest of the state, this year’s Pride festivities in Rochester drew thousands with a parade along Park Avenue followed by a festival in Cobb’s Hill Park over the weekend, Worker shortages in public sector jobs is the focus of a nationwide bus tour kicking off today in Rochester.

The quarter honoring Oswego native Dr. Mary Edwards Walker now has an official face, an extended-stay hotel is being proposed along Elmwood Avenue in Rochester, and after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s heart stopped on the field last season many people in Western New York are still interested in learning how to administer CPR.

Rochester Mayor Malik Evans and Police Chief David Smith say there will be extra police presence in parts of the Jefferson Avenue neighborhood on the southwest side in the coming days, federal help is on the way to parts of New York affected by flooding earlier this month, and small team of city ambassadors or guides could begin fanning out across downtown Rochester by early fall.

The first of four major environmental cleanups for a proposed High Falls State Park is underway, artificial intelligence robots are the newest companions for older New Yorkers, and the Environmental Protection Agency has scheduled a virtual public hearing this week as it seeks public input on a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

The state’s new ethics commission is debating the language proposed in its code of conduct, the governor says she’s working on a strategy to deal with recent car thefts, and the State Senate’s first public hearing on the rollout of recreational cannabis is scheduled to take place the end of October.

Renovations of a significant building on West Main Street in Rochester are finally underway, a new tool aims to use data to create a more equitable prosecutors office, and recent labor victories were a theme at this year’s Labor Day parade in Rochester.

A rise in car thefts this summer has sparked debate about how to deal with young teenagers who are accused of crimes; the Rochester City School District is facing another teacher shortage, particularly in the area of bilingual education; AAA and local law enforcement are sharing the same message this week — school will open soon, so drive carefully; the city of Rochester is seeking to make its last standing cobblestone house a historical landmark; and as of Friday, New York state’s cigarette tax is the highest in the nation.

Mayor Malik Evans is cracking down on landlords renting properties without a certificate of occupancy, the Rochester City School District and Monroe 2 Orleans BOCES are in line for millions of dollars in funding under the Empire State Teacher Residency Program, and a downtown Rochester ambassador program could be moving forward with money from City Hall.

A SUNY-ESF expert says recent “unprecedented” weather trends like air pollution and flash flooding are our new normal, there are places people in Rochester can go to get some relief from the heat, and the University of Rochester are offering an update on a cybersecurity attack that was first reported in early June.

A local philanthropist with deep ties to Rochester is now being celebrated in a new biography on her life and legacy, Stefon Diggs is reassuring but short on specifics in saying he and the Buffalo Bills are back on the same page as training camp opened in Pittsford yesterday, and the new executive director of the Father Tracy Advocacy Center in Rochester is working on a plan to reduce drug dealing on North Clinton Avenue.