AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – A student from UMass Amherst is expected to face criminal charges after a fire was started inside a dorm room, which prompted a building evacuation. The town of Amherst states ...

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 spent days on the scene fire that destroyed an Amherst apartment complex that provided off-campus housing to many University of Massachusetts students.

A devastating fire Friday night, November 7, burned down Olympia Place, a large off-campus housing complex mainly used by students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst).

A Umass Amherst student is expected to face criminal charges after a fire caused damage to the dorm room and the building had to be evacuated. A 911 call from a person passing by the McNamara ...

AMHERST, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- A UMass Amherst student will be heading to court after a fire in a university dorm room. Amherst Fire Chief Lindsay Stromgren said that a passerby called 911 to report smoke ...