Preliminary sketch plans were released in August for a new building at 107 Cook St., the site of the May 6 fire that killed Brian Lo ’11 and destroyed the original house on that lot.

Tom Parsons ’82 was promoted to Ithaca Fire Chief on Sunday after previously serving as deputy fire chief and fire marshal. 

After the fire on Cook Street that resulted in the death of Brian Lo '11, officials at a Collegetown Neighborhood Association meeting Tuesday discussed how to prevent future tragedies.

Brian Lo '11 died in a house fire on Cook Street early Friday morning. The house's other residents escaped.

A Shortline Bus returning to Ithaca from New York City burst into flames Sunday morning in Brooktondale, N.Y., eight miles outside Ithaca, after the driver accidentally drove up a hill on a flat tire.

Earthquakes are avalanches. So are crackling fires, Rice Krispies in a bowl of milk and crumpling pieces of paper. The sounds we hear as crackling are a result of avalanche behavior. Avalanches, as physicists understand them, aren’t made of snow: they are responses to stress.

A fire at Prize Diner, on the 100 block of West State Street, caused significant damage on Monday night.

Joe Jacoby, a building coordinator at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, lost his home in a fire last Sunday. 

Local and campus authorities are investigating two small fires that started early Sunday morning in two separate locations in the DKE house.

After months of deliberation, the University Assembly passed a resolution this October to remove a clause from the Campus Code of Conduct designed to prevent special-interest student organizations from discriminating against certain groups in their criteria for membership.