ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Every five years, the Lake Guardian comes to Lake Ontario. The largest research vessel in the great lakes, the roughly 40-person craft spends a year in each Great Lake ...

Upstate New York has tons of opportunities for outdoor fun, including in the Adirondacks and Thousand Islands. This city is a ...

Partly cloudy skies this morning are a sign of what is to come as cooler air pours over the region from Canada. The cold air ...

Rochester, NY (WHAM) - What an interesting site over Lake Ontario Wednesday morning. We had nearly ideal weather conditions for a waterspout to form on the lake. If you weren't lucky enough to ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) - New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was in town Tuesday morning, touring waterfront flood damage along Lake Ontario.Heastie (D-83) visited Silk O'Loughlin's ...

Rochester, Buffalo and other communities along the southern and eastern sides of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie are known for getting hit by huge amounts of snow. But what, exactly, is lake effect snow?

Unless the water recedes, Durand-Eastman beach in Rochester will remain closed indefinitely, according to reports. The swimming beach was scheduled to open for the season June 14, according to the ...

Nearly unimaginable snowfalls have occurred in New York thanks to lake effect snow: The tiny town of Montague, downwind from Lake Ontario, holds the "unofficial" world record 24-hour snowfall ...

Two years after historic flooding devastated the Lake Ontario shoreline, people are starting to fret again about high water.

Rochester police recovered a male body from Lake Ontario near the Charlotte pier on Wednesday morning, Rochester police confirmed.