Sen. Chuck Schumer calling to extend weekly $600 unemployment payment into 2021

It's time for spring cleaning in the home and in the medicine cabinet.

Generation ROC returns to share the amazing things happening in the lives of our local kids. This week, we take a look at a special group of young ladies handpicked to learn how to be future leaders. News 8’s Mikhaela Singleton shares the story.

Just like breathing, a blink is something that almost happens unconsciously hundreds if not thousands of times a day. So much so that it’s estimated that our eyes are closed three to eight percent of the time we’re awake, including blinking.

Stay up to date on the latest headlines in today's Sunrise Smart Start for Thursday, April 25, 2024.

It's a sunny and cold day in Rochester as temperatures are stuck in the 40s. We jump some 40 degrees over the next few days as a surge in warmer air moves in. Your video forecast here.

A house fire in the Town of Ogden is under investigation by the Spencerport Fire District.

Amerks have won 13 of their last 16 games

Drew Wickam who is one of the owners at pick n patch in Stanley, NY at 2205 U-S Rt 20, says the drops in temperature will be a huge determining factor on whether or not we'll be picking apples this summer.

READ MORE: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/pickn-patch-farm-lights-little-fires-to-save-apple-picking-season/

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April has been declared Native Plant Month in the City of Rochester. City leaders and members of the Rochester Garden Club planted a sugar maple tree at the First Street Park Wednesday to mark the occasion.

READ MORE: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/rochester/rochester-celebrates-native-plant-month/

The sunshine and warmer weather is right around the corner for Western New York, which may get some people thinking about the boating season.

A registered sex offender who pleaded guilty to exposing himself to children in 2023 was sentenced to seven years in prison Wednesday.

READ MORE: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/crime/serial-flasher-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-paul-goodrell/