Utilities and Infrastructure

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (358+ words) New York has completed two Long Island highway-renewal projects totaling $31.5 million, resurfacing nearly 100 lane miles and adding pedestrian, drainage and traffic-signal improvements in Nassau and Suffolk counties. The work covered sections of Route 25, the Sunrise Highway service roads, Hempstead Turnpike…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (120+ words) ROCHESTER — Roughly 8,000 customers are without power in Rochester on Wednesday morning, according to Rochester Public Utilities. At 7:07 a.m., 7,970 customers were affected by 59 outages, the RPU Outage map reports, spread around Rochester. RPU has three active crews out and has restored…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (501+ words) New York has awarded more than $18.6 million to 10 downtown Albany projects that are expected to create nearly 300 homes, reuse vacant office space and support historic and community properties. The awards are the first project grants through the state's $400 million Championing…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (276+ words) Updated on: August 17, 2026 / 10:33 AM EDT / CBS New York Amtrak is reopening an East River Tunnel line in New York that underwent major renovations after being damaged by Hurricane Sandy back in 2012. Line 2 will reopen Monday, marking the end of part…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (62+ words) Rochester's former Kodak Hawkeye site is now a Class 2 Superfund site after DEC found contamination in soil, groundwater and vapor. Contamination found at former Kodak Hawkeye site in Rochester The state Department of Environmental Conservation has reclassified the former Kodak…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (569+ words) ALBANY, N.Y. — Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha announced this week that Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed the Public Renewables Transparency Act, which she says will add transparency measures to the New York Power Authority’s buildout of … ALBANY, N.Y. — Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha announced…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (88+ words) The outage impacts the area between Civic Center Drive Northwest, 14th Street Northwest/Northeast and along the Broadway Avenue North corridor. ROCHESTER, Minn. — Rochester Public Utilities crews are responding to a power outage in northwest Rochester affecting about 1,700 customers. The…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (296+ words) (ABC 6 News) — Rochester Public Utilities has lifted the Boil Water Advisory that was issued this week in a portion of NW Rochester. According to RPU, lab tests showed that drinking water was and remains safe for consumption. RPU said customers…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (298+ words) Updated on: May 7, 2026 / 7:07 AM EDT / CBS Detroit A precautionary boil water advisory has been issued for part of Rochester Hills and Oakland Township in Southeast Michigan; with the Great Lakes Water Authority monitoring conditions at a leak on a 42-inch…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (706+ words) ROCHESTER — Area homeowners roamed the hall and gathered around maps and computers, studying squiggly lines that depicted possible electricity transmission line routes around Rochester. The conversations were earnest. Power company officials mingled among them, ready to answer questions. Specifically, these…...