Ithaca News

Enjoy your dining experience knowing that you are making good nutritional decisions by using these healthy guidelines when eating out.

An article by Sooke historian Elida Peers presents a long history of logging and fishing.

March isn't ready to turn into a lamb yet. After several days of arguing about the expected severity of a mid-week storm, forecasters are all agreeing a major winter storm will sweep across Western and Central New York on Wednesday.

The Ithaca Fire Department Rope Rescue team was called to the Town of Dryden Tuesday to pull an elderly man out of a ravine behind his home.

Hip Hop culture pioneers Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow and Melle Mel are set to be honored, according to Bronx Councilman Fernando Cabrera.

Unemployment stood at 6.3 percent in January--nearly two percentage points below where it was to start 2013.

Lawrence Williams, president and CEO of the United States Healthful Food Council, is a scheduled speaker at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration's student-run 89th annual Hotel Ezra Cornell , which is being held March 20-23, 2014, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

This undated image released by ABC shows Ithaca native Juan Pablo Galavis, star of the 18th edition of "The Bachelor."

Keeping salaries secret hurts worker performance and increases turnover of top talent, according to a study published online Jan. 13 in the Academy of Management Journal .

How is it that British playwright Duncan Macmillan has written such a perfect play for Ithaca? The young couple in LUNGS care deeply about the earth and their responsibility to protect it, and this awareness of the big picture affects all their decisions, large and small.

Tompkins County authorities have now released surveillance video of the two suspects who robbed a Rite Aid pharmacy over the weekend.

Ithaca emergency crews rescued an elderly woman Monday afternoon after her car went off the road and crashed into a creek.

Cornell University President David J. Skorton will be leaving at the end of June 2015 to lead the Smithsonian Institution, Cornell announced this afternoon.

Recommendations to replace saturated fat with carbohydrates or polyunsaturated fat are "severely challenged" and should be revised, claims an editorial published in Open Heart , a new journal from the BMJ Group.

"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" premiered Sunday night , rebooting the series that the late astronomer Carl Sagan turned into a TV classic 34 years ago.

Sunday night's Cosmos premier ended with a touching personal story from Neil deGrasse Tyson on how he first met astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan.

When Cheryl Lamb, of Vestal, watched her mixed Labrador retriever, Bart, go through his end stages of lymphoma she wanted him to be comfortable in his final days at home.

Sheriff deputies are searching for two men following an armed robbery Saturday evening at a drug store in the Town of Ithaca.

The raucous standing ovation diehard conservatives offered Chris Christie as he walked on stage Thursday at the Gaylord National Resort suggested something of a political miracle: The New Jersey governor had managed to surpass the George Washington Bridge scandal that once threatened to squash his 2016 presidential ambitions.

The Finger Lakes State Parks has scheduled its annual New York State lifeguard exams.