Deb Wilke and her husband spent last Sunday helping residents of the Jungle, Ithaca’s homeless encampment, prepare to move. Aware of recent spike of the coronavirus in Tompkins County, Wilke wore a ...

Fri, 13 Dec 2013 22:07:17 GMT — Following the death of a homeless man whose tent caught fire, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick says it's time to "clear the jungle." Myrick is referring to an encampment of ...

Public safety officials are investigating two fires that have occurred at a homeless camp over the past two weeks. A structure similar to a shed built in the area behind Walmart and Harbor Freight ...

Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:07:27 GMT — The homeless Ithaca man that was severely burned in Wednesday's fire has died. Ithaca Police say 53-year-old Richard Sherman died Thursday afternoon due to ...

The Jungle — a narrow strip of land between the railroad tracks and the inlet of Cayuga Lake behind Wegman’s where Ithaca’s homeless find community — has been brought to the attention of local media ...

Ithaca firefighters extinguished a large blaze on Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Ithaca's homeless encampment off of Fulton St. Yahoo Sports ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Tompkins County announced Tuesday, Nov. 26, its plans to buy a one-acre property on Cherry Street to build a 100-bed shelter less than a mile away from a vast homeless ...

A 53-year-old resident of The Jungle, a homeless encampment in the City of Ithaca, was left in critical condition after his tent caught on fire Wednesday afternoon. At around 2:55 p.m., Tompkins ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- An Ithaca man was sent to jail this weekend after he allegedly threatened to stab a woman and fired a shotgun at a homeless encampment, police said. Terrance Jones, 30, was charged ...

When he was homeless in Los Angeles, Mark Horvath had a storage unit, a pet iguana and one collect phone call home every day. In the storage unit were remnants of his former life, artifacts of a drug- ...

Ithaca, N.Y. -- A Wednesday night fire in Ithaca burned down a homeless encampment and was deemed suspicious, according to the Ithaca Police Department. Officers responded to the fire on Southwest ...