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A 70-year-old man has died following a house fire in Hamilton's east end on Saturday, police say.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a suite of affordability measures on Monday that he says will help Canadian families who are struggling to cope with the rising cost of living.

Hamilton's public and Catholic school boards announced Sunday evening their buildings would be closed Monday as a major winter storm hits the area.

Two Hamilton city councillors have apologized after the city's integrity commissioner found they violated the city's code of conduct. Commissioner David Boghosian found Cameron Kroetsch (Ward 2) breached decorum rules and Nrinder Nann (Ward 3) disclosed confidential information.

While the library says it will close its Central branch starting in February, for this weekend's cold temperatures, the city says it is activating an emergency warming centre that would operate around the clock at Bennetto Community Centre.

The 67-year-old man was punched in the head, police say. A 48-year-old man has been arrested and charged.

Concerned about 62 coming job cuts, hospital workers, labour leaders and community members braved temperatures of about -10 C to gather on the sidewalk in front of St. Joe's Charlton Avenue E., campus and call for change.

Environment Canada has issued yellow level cold warnings for Hamilton, Burlington, Brantford and Niagara Region, telling people to brace for bitterly cold conditions beginning this evening."

Teenaged Black boys from the Greater Toronto Area, groomed into the illegal drug trade by adult criminals, are being sent to remote communities into Ontario's north, putting them in danger, an investigation by the fifth estate found.

The majority of Hamilton's city councillors, and the city's mayor, say they're planning to run for their positions again in the municipal election happening later this year.

Marineland, the defunct amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont., has told the federal government it will euthanize 30 captive belugas and four dolphins at the facility, unless Canada grants permission to ship them to the United States, CBC News has learned.

A Hamilton family whose son was hit and killed by a city bus last month says he should have been in school on the Thursday afternoon when he died. But the seven-year-old had autism and was only attending school for half-days due to staffing challenges at his school. The family argues if he had been at school, he would still be alive today.

A man accused of the murder of a Smithville, Ont., woman in 2024 is facing 25 new charges, Niagara police say.

Integrity commissioner found they had been "lulled into a false sense of security" by senior staff and he is not holding them individually responsible.

Morgann Book is championing It's Different This Time by Joss Richard. Canada Reads will air April 13-16 on CBC TV, CBC Radio and CBC Books!

Andrea Horwath has put forward a 2026 budget proposal that includes a 4.25 per cent residential tax increase - about $228 for the average home assessed at $387,100. Now councillors have 30 days to review it and propose amendments before it's a done deal.

One person has died following a two-vehicle collision in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., on Wednesday morning, police say.

"To share information that the project will be done in 2050 is irresponsible," said a Dofasco representative at a community meeting Tuesday night. The plan to power the plant with natural gas instead of coal was supposed to be done by 2028 with the help of hundreds of millions of public dollars.

The number of people on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program who are also experiencing homelessness has shot up 72 percent since 2019, according to a new report from human rights organization Maytree.

The weather agency issued a yellow warning for snowfall just after 5 a.m. in which it said an "Alberta clipper" will push into the region with snow beginning this morning impacting people's commute.

Victoria Mboko of Toronto punched her ticket to the third round of women's singles at the Australian Open on Wednesday in Melbourne with a 6-4, 6-3 win over American Caty McNally.

The trial for a couple who'd been trying to adopt two brothers before one was found dead in their Burlington, Ont., home four years ago is set to end proceedings on Friday. Following her wife's testimony, Becky Hamber answered questions from lawyers, including about how the two treated the children. Here's what we've heard from Hamber so far in Milton Superior Court.

The Art Gallery of Hamilton has announced a planned renovation to grow its space by 20 per cent and incorporate affordable housing for artists.

Ontario's vision for an end-to-end electric vehicle supply chain, once an aggressive focus for Premier Doug Ford, has been sputtering as manufacturers delay or cancel plans, and the government is now looking to demands for batteries of a different sort to sustain it.

A former elementary school teacher from Burlington, Ont., has been sentenced for sexually assaulting seven male students in the 1980s. Court heard victim impact statements at the hearing for the 88-year-old.

The first-ever World team for the NBA All-Star Game is already looking loaded. And the fate of LeBron James' record streak of All-Star selections will now be decided by coaches, or perhaps even Commissioner Adam Silver.

As Hamilton seeks to modernize residential care facilities, operators, advocates and researchers say there's much to be done and warn changes come with risks for residents.

The Medical Officer of Health for the City of Hamilton has issued a cold weather alert effective Monday night.

Environment Canada has issued snow squall warnings for Niagara Region, with heavy and blowing snow expected in some areas on Monday.

An Ontario woman who regularly shared her experiences as a sexual assault survivor at police training courses says she's ending her relationship with the Ontario Police College and is raising concerns about what she and several experts say are harmful biases among some officers and a lack of accountability from the college.

As Toronto and Vancouver gear up to co-host FIFA World Cup games this summer, an emergency doctor worries that Canada's overburdened health-care system won't be able tohandle the extra demand from possible infectious disease outbreaks or weather-related illnesses.

At The Approximators' live-band karaoke shows, audience members sign up to sing songs from a list of over 200 the band knows. When the emcee calls on them, singers come up on stage and front the band. Starting Jan. 31, the band will play the last Saturday of every month at Hamilton venue Ooey Gooey's.

Hundreds of Kashechewan First Nation evacuees have arrived in Niagara Falls, one of the Ontario cities taking in people from the Cree community as it endures a water crisis. With 1,700 expected in the Niagara Region city alone, authorities and local Indigenous groups are doing everything they can to help them feel at home.

Hamilton councillors agreed to defer discussing an auditor general's report that slammed the city's tiny shelter project for its lack of accountability, governance and control mechanisms."

A taxi driver is recovering in hospital after he was allegedly stabbed by a passenger early Friday morning.

A man has died after being shot by police in Brantford, Ont., on Friday morning, the province's police watchdog says. The shooting occurred after police responded to a "disturbance" involving a man and woman.

Snow clearing is underway across the region after a significant amount accumulated Thursday.

Standing in for other places even beyond Canada, these spots in Hamilton are some of the many filming locations that fans of Heated Rivalry can visit - from Dundurn Castle and the pink tunnel to McMaster University's athletic centre.

The federal Conservative Party is seeking to make amends with some provincial leaders after tensions with both Ontario and Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative premiers played out in public last year, sources say.

Ontario wants input from lawyers, families and other stakeholders on whether it should propose amending the Coroners Act to replace mandatory inquests into jail deaths with annual reviews. To get more information, CBC has spoken to the province, a lawyer and a parent whose son died while in custody.

The Liberal government has reached a deal with Beijing to allow tens of thousands of Chinese electric vehicles into the domestic market in exchange for dropping duties on canola products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday.

Police in Hamilton have charged an Ottawa teen in connection with a spate of recent swatting incidents that they say needlessly tied up emergency services in the southern Ontario city.

Vancouver Goldeneyes star forward Sarah Nurse suffered an arm injury in Vancouver's first-ever PWHL game in November and hasn't played since. But she practised Wednesday and plans to compete at her third Winter Olympics next month.

Investigators say a combustible fuel source was used to ignite the fires in two separate buildings, hours apart.

Daniel Caesar will receive the International Achievement Award and Billy Talent will receive the Humanitarian Award.

Public, Catholic and French schools across the region closed Thursday, among other closures, after the area was hit with a winter storm overnight. Environment Canada ended a weather alert for the area in the afternoon.

Ontario sent a blunt message to U.S. booze suppliers when it yanked their alcohol off its shelves last year, pledging to redirect customers to local producers, and those businesses say they're trying to make the most of what could be a limited-time opportunity.