AMHERST — The Town Council is permanently shelving zoning changes that would limit development of housing geared toward college students and conversions of existing homes into student rentals, along ...

AMHERST — A group of citizens are proposing a pair of zoning amendments designed to maintain traditional neighborhoods and to protect downtown as places for year-round residents. One of the citizen ...

Editor’s note: Read an updated story about the fire here. A three-alarm fire ripped through an off-campus apartment complex near the University of Massachusetts Amherst late Friday night, according to ...

Firefighters from around western Massachusetts are still on the scene of a three-alarm fire that began Friday night in the town of Amherst, destroying a building that provided off-campus housing to ...

Over 220 University of Massachusetts students are without permanent housing after a three-alarm fire destroyed off-campus housing at Olympia Place. At 8:19 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 7, the Amherst Fire ...