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Multidisciplinary artist and former McMaster Chancellor Santee Smith has recreated her father's artwork for display at the Obama Center Oval Office exhibit. Smith says she didn't know her father's work was on display at during the Obama presidency at the White House until she was contacted about making a recreation.

The second observation wheel idea was part of the Destination Niagara plan unveiled in mid-December by the province. NDP MPP Wayne Gates is planning a public town hall over the planned attraction at Queen Victoria Park.

Hamilton city council is poised to decide whether to approve a moratorium on data centre development pending new local rules. Proponents say it'd give the city time to respond to a growing industry. Critics worry developments would be driven to other jurisdictions and there'd be missed business opportunities.

Kenny Lawler knew it was just a matter of time before the Hamilton Tiger-Cats would come calling. Lawler registered four catches for a team-high 81 yards and a touchdown in Hamilton's 41-27 home win over the B.C. Lions on Friday night.

A Hamilton teen who pulled a man from a tent engulfed in flames last year has been awarded the Carnegie Medal, given to those who "risked serious injury or death attempting to save others in acts of extraordinary heroism." Zeke Fox was 17 when he dragged Shawn Goodwin out of the flames that destroyed his encampment at Bayfront Park in January 2025.

Hamilton police say they have opened a satellite office at Jackson Square in response to community safety concerns. The office, called a "substation," is next door to where a teen was shot and killed in April. Following the boy's death, police held a downtown safety summit in which some participants suggested setting up the substation.

The reality of Premier Doug Ford's changes to Ontario's freedom of information system are beginning to take hold as rejections and denials make their way to requesters.

Mandatory changes are coming to schools across Ontario starting in September, from attendance, participation and exams counting towards secondary school students' final grades to a digital learning platform being implemented at all school boards.

Const. Matthew Eleftheriou entered the guilty plea before Ontario Court Justice Katherine McLeod on June 15.

Hamilton police recorded their lowest number of use-of-force incidents in six years in 2025, with a sharp decline in both incidents and people involved, according to a new annual report released by the service.

A two-vehicle collision closed Highway 407 westbound ramp to the QEW and Plains Road in Burlington, Ont., for several hours Monday, police said. One of the vehicle's occupants had "possibly life-altering" injuries, police said.

Bo Levi Mitchell won the showdown between last year's CFL outstanding player finalists. He tied his career high with five touchdown passes to lead Hamilton past the B.C. Lions 41-27 on Friday, giving the Tiger-Cats their second straight victory and first at home this season.

Premier Doug Ford's daily calendar will now be kept secret from the public following recent changes to Ontario's freedom of information law - which no longer includes access to records held by ministers and their offices.

When the federal government introduced supplemental health copayments for asylum seekers and refugee claimants earlier this spring, it also quietly brought in a 10-hour yearly cap on mental health sessions for them, CBC News has learned. Mental health practitioners have been lobbying for a reversal since, with limited success.

PWHL Hamilton has signed forwards Alexa Vasko and Kayla Vespa to two-year contracts through the 2027-28 season, the expansion club announced Sunday.

The fate of deer and elk at the now-closed Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., is uncertain, with an animal rights organization warning some of them could be bound for slaughterhouses, and urging provincial and federal officials to take action.

Trail signs popping up along major paths in Ontario's Niagara Region will connect people to an interactive map detailing the Indigenous history of the site and route, in a project launching in November.

Jonathan Bikker, a curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, led the effort to authenticate Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, a painting that had been dismissed by scholars in the 1960s and largely disappeared from public view.

How does one transport an aquatic animal that can grow up to 4.5 metres and weigh up to 1,900 kilograms? Here's a step-by-step guide.

A busy month of expansion signings and a six-round draft has started to bring each PWHL team's roster picture into focus.

The Hamilton Public Library's controversial card-access pilot at its downtown branch dramatically reduced overdoses, drug use and emergency calls, according to a new report presented to the library board Thursday.

A 42-year-old Thorold, Ont., man faces a charge of mischief under $5,000, police say, after a Pride flag flying outside of a Thorold school was damaged.

For National Indigenous Peoples Day this year, organizations are holding events throughout the Hamilton-Niagara area, including festivals, swimming, poetry and art.

The Snowbirds have made what could be one of their last stops in Hamilton for the foreseeable future. The Royal Canadian Air Force aerobatics team, which the government is grounding at the end of this flying season, flew with a B-25 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum on Wednesday.

One of two Welland adults charged with making child sexual abuse and exploitation material is an employee at a St. Catharines agency that works with at-risk youth. Niagara Regional Police said a 40-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman were arrested on Wednesday.

More than 66 per cent of previously-declared vacant units returned to occupancy in year two of Hamilton's vacant unit tax, according to a report before city council's General Issues Committee on Wednesday. That amounts to 288 units.

Six Nations of the Grand River elected council says it "strongly rejects" recent comments by a Brantford, Ont., city councillor who said he doesn't believe in land acknowledgments and thinks they're "virtue signalling."

No injuries were reported among residents or firefighters after a fire near Hamilton's industrial sector heavily damaged a house Wednesday evening.

After a very rainy night, a large swath north of Lake Erie, from the Port Dover area to Fort Erie, is under a wind warning on Thursday morning.

Advocates say Ottawa is ignoring safeguards required by a 2023 Supreme Court ruling, leaving asylum seekers vulnerable to detention and deportation after being denied entry at the border.

St. Catharines regional Coun. Haley Bateman planned to bring forward a motion to require involvement from public health's environmental division in the environmental assessment, cleanup and redevelopment of a former General Motors property. But Niagara's regional government says the proposal falls outside its jurisdiction.

Premier Doug Ford's government is on pace to sit for the fewest days of any Ontario government over the past five decades in a year when voters aren't headed to the polls.And experts warn the decision to shorten the calendar at Queen's Park comes with its strategic benefits - and pitfalls - for the Tories as the legislature settles into a 21-week break.

The federal weather statement said the regions could get rainfall amounts of up to 40 mm starting early Wednesday evening and continuing overnight.

A City of Hamilton public works employee is being credited with helping save residents trapped inside a burning east Hamilton home before firefighters arrived Wednesday morning.

A Hamilton man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting seven women in crimes dating back to 2018. The 37-year-old recorded and posted the assaults online after meeting the women in school, his community, and on dating apps and websites, according to an agreed statement of facts.

A Hamilton hospital says it has become the first in the world to use an experimental exosome treatment on a burn patient, helping a Western University student recover from severe injuries suffered in a London fraternity house fire.

It's been three years since city council directed staff to draft a bylaw that will force landlords to cool units. At a planning committee meeting Tuesday, councillors granted a staff request to defer the draft to September.

Hamilton has taken the first steps toward a moratorium on the development of artificial intelligence data centres. Council's planning committee unanimously supported a motion to have staff draft a bylaw pausing development pending the creation of a local framework for such facilities.

The Association of Ontario Road Supervisors says it has been asking the province to do more to improve safety on rural roads and provide more funding to municipalities to make simple but effective upgrades. The need to address rural road safety is top of mind following the fatal collision in Mapleton Township where five children died.

Dundurn Street S. will be closed between Main and Hill streets from June 22 to the end of July for water main and sewer work, meaning more complications for Hamilton commuters.

The budget will represent the total amount of carbon that can be emitted, in an effort to limit global warming.

Dozens of trees, including memorial trees planted to honour loved ones, were vandalized along a popular trail bisecting the city of Niagara Falls. The city said on Monday that 32 trees were intentionally damaged, some snapped in two, along the length of the 7.5-kilometre trail connecting the city's north and south ends along the length of the Ontario Power Generation hydro canal.

The head of an Ontario tech company proposing an AI data centre for the old Hamilton Spectator building on Frid Street says he understands people's concerns about such facilities and wants to build them better.

Starting next month, Ontarians who are 45 years old will be eligible for colorectal cancer screening. Some patients and advocates question whether the province is ready for the additional pressure on the system, but Ontario says it's boosting capacity.

Her collection Flint and Feather is one of the all-time best-selling volumes of Canadian poetry but Pauline Johnson's complexity as a woman ahead of her time, straddling two cultures is still debated. Scholars have referred to Johnson as both a controversial figure and an early literary activist.

Rural Ontario communities are reeling with grief after a deadly crash on Friday took the lives of five children in one family from a town near Kitchener-Waterloo. The township's mayor says many in the area are turning to their faith to reckon with the loss.

Environment Canada said Sunday Haldimand County and Niagara could experience a severe thunderstorm and heavy rain. The storm watch ended but there is still a flood watch.

Doug Ford appears to be throttling back on aggressive anti-Trump rhetoric with key trade talks looming with the U.S., stepping up a charm offensive aimed at politicians and lobby groups in the mercurial president's orbit.

The Commissioner of Canada Elections (CCE) has fined a Hamilton Centre poll worker $1,250 after he was found to have voted twice in the 2021 federal election.

Five children between the ages of four and 12 were killed in a two-vehicle collision in rural Ontario, according to OPP. Several others, including one infant, were injured.