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Head coach Scott Milanovich has plenty on his plate during the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' training camp, but he's not worrying about the state of his kicking game.

A dentist told Sudanese refugee Omer Obiedallah that he'll likely need several procedures to deal with tooth pain. Due to recent federal cuts to refugee healthcare, Obiedallah says he won't be able to afford to follow up. Instead, he says, he will have to wait till his situation worsens and go to an ER.

A woman fired in 2024 when she was a migrant worker at a Hamilton farm is seeking compensation after the Ontario Labour Relations Board ruled her employer violated her rights, in a case she hopes will shed light on "the challenges faced by vulnerable workers."

Existing PWHL teams can protect three players each from signing with expansion teams to start, as part of a multi-phase off-season "player distribution process" that begins Monday.

In response to community concerns about proposed data centre projects, Coun. Nrinder Nann presented a notice of motion to have staff prepare a report on municipal standards governing such facilities. She said she wants public participation in a local framework for data centre development.

Port Colborne, Thorold and Niagara-on-the-Lake will have leaner councils after this year's municipal election.

On Day 3 of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Montreal, witnesses gave testimony over the difficulty and complexity of conducting ground searches for unmarked burials at residential schools.

Former Boston Fleet head coach Kris Sparre will be the head coach of the new PWHL Hamilton franchise. The announcement came on Wednesday, just five days after Sparre was named a finalist for the PWHL's Coach of the Year award with the Boston Fleet.

Niagara police say they have arrested nine people, including eight teenagers, in a far-reaching auto theft investigation that led them from southern Ontario to Montreal, where stolen cars were being prepared for export overseas.

Dundas Street E. will be closed between Mill and First streets, from June 1 at 7 a.m., to June 5 at 5 p.m., as cranes place beams in ongoing bridge reconstruction.

The province is proposing to overhaul the definition of an electric bicycle, and it could force some riders to get a motorcycle licence and insurance to operate their bike on the road. The CBC's Giacomo Panico has been speaking with e-bike owners, retailers and insurance brokers to get their reaction.

The hot pink and canary-coloured hues glow so bright, astronauts can snap photos of them from space. Fixed atop the largest concentration of greenhouses in North America, the multi-coloured lights have transformed both the night sky in a pocket of southwestern Ontario and the province's multi-billion-dollar agriculture sector.

Ontario's sport system needs to be better organized and more professional so everyone can take part in sports that are fun and safe, according to the lead researcher of a new report calling for change.

The City of St. Catharines, Ont., has issued a repair, replace or demolish" order to owners of a long-abandoned and contaminated site that used to be two auto parts manufacturing plants once run by General Motors.

A panel of residential school survivors provided witness testimony on Tuesday to the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, an international independent court of opinion investigating Canada's responsibility for the residential school system and the human rights violations associated with it.

In May 2025, police charged a Hamilton man with multiple offences and accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple people, filming the assaults and sharing them online. Now, police say they have charged an alleged accomplice.

Ontario's Bill 9, which cracks down on misbehaving municipal politicians, passed third reading at Queen's Park on Tuesday and is on its way to becoming law.

A 95-year-old woman has died and 20 people have been displaced after a fire at an apartment building in Niagara Falls, Ont.

Isaiah Wooden Sr. is back with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The American receiver/returner re-signed with the CFL club on Monday after joining the Cleveland Browns in the off-season.

For decades, airports across Canada conducted firefighter training exercises that included the use of foams containing PFAS, often dubbed "forever chemicals." The impact of that contamination has people living near the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., airport fearing for future generations.

Arrr you in the market for a gently used pirate ship, or perhaps an entire fleet? This might be your lucky day.

Niagara Regional Police plan to take the lead on a new Neighbourhood Watch program and say they hope to convince residents to report tips directly to officers instead of only posting allegations of criminal activity on social media.

Victoria's drivers are the first in Canada to get a union contract with Uber, but advocates say there's no guarantee it will pave the way for the broader unionization of ride-hailing workers across the country.

Former federal cabinet member Navdeep Bains has entered the Ontario Liberal leadership race. Bains worked as a science and industry minister in Justin Trudeau's government before leaving politics in 2021.

In a joint action by OPSEU about 4,000 support workers are on strike or locked out across Ontario demanding better pay. Among them are about 130 child and youth mental health workers in Hamilton who say their organization, which serves 2,300 clients, is struggling to keep people on.

The Permanent People's Tribunal will examine evidence regarding Canada's responsibility for the residential schools system and the human rights violations associated with it.

A 75-year-old driver has died following a two-vehicle crash in Norfolk County on Sunday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say.

Mulroney was elected in 2018 as part of Premier Doug Ford's first government and has served in a number of cabinet portfolios, including her current roles as Treasury Board president and francophone minister. In a letter Monday announcing her decision, she cited a desire to start a new chapter.

The opening of the new 160-bed Pleasant Manor long-term care home in Virgil, Ont., is welcome news to Sandra Beatty. She lives just minutes away and can now easily visit her elderly mom, who has vascular dementia. Niagara-on-the-Lake now has 39 long-term care beds more than it did before Upper Canada Lodge closed in 2024.

Niagara Catholic District School Board's director of education is moving to the much larger Toronto District School Board, where the province last year stripped its board of directors of much of its powers due to what it called financial problems at that board.The Niagara Catholic board said on Friday that education director Camillo Cipriano has resigned after six years. His last day will be June 5.

Philes Ongori can run like the wind, but not just when she's blasting past the competition at marathons. Her life has been moving at a blistering pace for the better part of three years, since she and her husband moved to Canada as asylum seekers, leaving their children behind in Kenya.

A meeting this week hosted by Hamilton police in the wake of two teens killed in separate shootings started out as a look at youth safety in the downtown core, but quickly devolved into issues around open drug use, homelessness and safety perception.

Hamilton police say investigators have concluded their search of a downtown home connected to the 2022 disappearance of Emily Bailey, saying they've collected evidence.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats' first exhibition game comes at a good time for head coach Scott Milanovich. The Ticats host the Toronto Argonauts on Saturday afternoon at Hamilton Stadium in the first pre-season contest for both clubs. It comes almost two weeks after CFL teams opened their training camps.

On Thursday, the NDP announced it had appointed Hamilton's Matthew Green for a three-month stint as the party's interim national director. He told CBC Hamilton about his vision for guiding the party's rebuild.

The PWHL filled its final two expansion team general manager openings with three-time U.S. Olympian Meghan Duggan taking over in Hamilton, and Troy Ryan leaving the Toronto Sceptres to take on the dual role of coach and GM in San Jose.

A Fort Erie, Ont., racetrack that has employed town locals for generations fears there won't be any prize money if Ontario's $35 million funding continues to stall. A thoroughbred registry says the delay has also impacted local horse breeders, who are moving their businesses to the U.S.

After two months, the Hamilton Central library branch is no longer restricting entry to people with library cards or special passes. The pilot was intended to prevent drug use in the space, and the library has said it will present its findings to its board on June 18.

Top seed Victoria Mboko cruised to a 6-4, 6-4 win over fellow Canadian Leylah Fernandez in quarterfinal action Thursday at the Strasbourg International tennis tournament in France.

Burloak Drive will be closed between May 22 and June 1 from Harvester Road to Prince William Drive. The closure is due to ongoing work by provincial transit agency Metrolinx to raise GO train tracks off of street level.

Hamilton's incoming American Hockey League (AHL) team will be called the Hammers. The name and the team's logo were announced Thursday at TD Coliseum, where they'll begin playing in October. In March, the AHL's board of governors approved the Bridgeport Islanders' relocation from Connecticut to the Ontario city.

Between April 17 and 19, visitors to White Chapel Memorial Gardens noticed vases placed at grave sites were missing, Hamilton Police Service said in a news release Wednesday. They said they have charged a man in the thefts of about 40 bronze vases.

Police said on Wednesday that they began the investigation on May 8 of an alleged sexual assault of a young person who was taking a driving lesson.

As police search a Hamilton home for Emily Bailey or any evidence surrounding her disappearance, her grief-stricken family hopes for an end to their never-ending feelings of loss. Bailey, a mother of two, was last seen on Jan. 1, 2022.

If all goes as planned for YWCA Hamilton, up to 60 single women and 24 women-led families will have a home near Barton and Ottawa streets by the end of 2027. After at least two years of advocacy, the organization has secured $35 million in federal funding to build a supportive housing project for women, gender-diverse people and survivors of domestic violence.

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal will be in Montreal May 25-29 to investigate human rights violations related to missing Indigenous children and unmarked graves associated with residential schools.

Twelve black bears at Marineland are on the move to their new home at a sanctuary in the United States more than 2,000kilometres away as the park slowly winds down its operations.

There's a "heavy police presence" in the area of Stinson Street in Hamilton as investigators search a home Wednesday, connected with a woman's disappearance in 2022. Neighbours speak to CBC Hamilton about their feelings regarding the latest turn of events in the case.

Special Olympics Canada says Frank Hayden, whose research in the 1960s spearheaded the creation of the Special Olympics globally, has died.

Megan Dyck was overwhelmed after she endured chemotherapy, radiation treatment and brachytherapy that damaged some of her internal organs and then was told she had just a few months to live. But the Niagara-on-the-Lake teen says Wellspring Niagara, a regional cancer support centre, "gave me a place where I could actually let my guard down."