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Ontario's municipal affairs minister says the province will move forward with a much-delayed mandatory review of the Greenbelt, but opposition critics say there's still no word on when the study of the ecologically sensitive zone will take place or who will conduct it.

The Ontario Government has sided with the City of Hamilton in its push to continue a long-delayed James Street N., housing redevelopment, which proposes the creation of several hundred homes, some affordable, in the north end.

A seven-year-old boy is dead after being struck by a Hamilton bus, police said Thursday. A city manager told CBC Hamilton said they couldn't comment on specific circumstances of what happened due to the investigation, but called it an "extremely unfortunate tragedy."

People living in four apartments at 2520 Barton Street East have been forced out of their homes after a multiple-alarm fire, Thursday morning, according to a news release from Hamilton Fire Chief Dave Cunliffe.

A central question throughout the weeks-long trial for Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber of Burlington, Ont., has been why, in the last year of his life, 12-year-old L.L. was so severely malnourished. The Crown argues they were intentionally restricting what the boy ate.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell will return to Steeltown for the next two seasons.

Hamilton councillor Mike Spadafora apologized to city staff Wednesday after the integrity commissioner found the Ward 14 representative made multiple violations of the Council Code Conduct when he accused city staff of lying, being 'careless,' and willfully ignoring council motions.

Cadence Weapon, Logan Staats, Julianna Riolino and more local acts will perform at shows in the lead up to the 55th Juno Awards in March.

Two parents are speaking out after students at their children's school in Burlington, Ont., say they found metal in hamburgers the school ordered from a local chain restaurant.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats head strength coach Marcellus Bowman has a new book outlining his training philosophy, which posits nutrition, sleeping and recovery are just as important as training when it comes to building strength.

A 68-year-old woman has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a pedestrian following a crash in Niagara Falls, Ont., in November, police say.

Fire Chief Mark Schmitt with the Fort Erie Fire Department told CBC Hamilton crews attended a rural location on Burger Road near Netherby Road for a structure fire at around 12:45 p.m. on Sunday.

Brandy Cooney was back testifying Tuesday at the Milton, Ont., murder trial for her and her wife, with the Crown challenging Cooney's earlier narrative that she and Becky Hamber loved and cared for two brothers under their care and rarely used restraints.

The Montreal Alouettes and Hamilton Tiger-Cats will kick off the 2026 CFL season on June 4.

Environment Canada has issued winter weather warnings to people in the Hamilton, Niagara, Burlington and Brantford areas.

Atletico Ottawa, Forge FC, the Vancouver Whitecaps and Vancouver FC now know their international club opponents for the 2026 regional champion's tournament.

An influential abstract artist was commissioned to build a sculpture for Lambton College in Sarnia, Ont., in 1972. Due to a shocking construction mishap, that longstanding and public connection to mid-century Canadian art history is now gone.

Human remains found in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. in the summer belong to a 24-year-old Black man from Toronto who went missing in the spring of 2022, police confirmed on Tuesday.

Environment Canada has several warnings up for the Hamilton and Niagara areas, and across southern Ontario, as freezing rain and snow move in Tuesday and Wednesday.

The family of a young Niagara woman who died in a car accident has been told she won't be buried in their local cemetery because it won't accommodate Muslim burial traditions, their imam says.

Following layoffs of hundreds of staff starting a year ago, the Hamilton college is now offering a 'voluntary exit option' to all full-time administrative, faculty and support staff.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who led the NBA in scoring last season and later grabbed league MVP and Finals MVP honours, was named Canadian athlete of the year by sports journalists on Tuesday.

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ordered a Welland call centre to adopt hiring policies to accommodate candidates who are blind and to give $28,000 in compensation to a blind man. The centre had refused him a job offer, despite being qualified.

Forge FC has confirmed the departure of winger David Choiniere after seven seasons with the Canadian Premier League powerhouse.

The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton celebrates 30 years of telling working-class stories with an exhibition of treasures' from its collection.

Less than half of the province's strong mayors" were using their controversial powers in the months ahead of a sweeping expansion of the system to 170 additional communities, according to estimates by Ontario's civil service.

Taking the witness box in her first-degree murder trial, Brandy Cooney says she called the boy she was trying to adopt a moron" and loser," used zip-ties to confine him in a wetsuit and locked him in his room at a Burlington, Ont., home.

Women and girls are more likely to be victims, making up over 90 per cent of victims in the last decade.

Federal housing advocate Marie-Josee Houle has released a report with recommendations for how the federal government should continue to provide funding to municipalities to help them respond to homeless encampments. The report was informed by a visit Houle did in southern Ontario in September, which included stops in Kitchener and Cambridge.

CBC News reviewed the latest three years of fraud statistics released since its investigative series The Cost of Fraud revealed that only a fraction of fraud cases were making it through Ontario's justice system a few years ago. The new numbers from Statistics Canada show the problem has only gotten worse, and have some experts pointing to alternative solutions to stem the flow of fraud.

Ontario jails are heading toward a record year for overcrowding, remand populations and lockdowns just as politicians debate bail reforms that could lead to a further influx of accused behind bars, data analyzed by CBC News reveals.

CBC's annual Make The Season Kind holiday campaign, in support of Hamilton Food Share kicked off this week and we're asking how you might make this season kind for retail store workers? It's the first part of a series that looks at how to Make the Season Kind for people whose work keeps the holidays moving.

With a wind chill of -24 forecast overnight Sunday, Hamilton's medical officer of health issued the first cold weather alert of the season.

Two streets in downtown St. Catharines, Ont., remain closed as fire fighters work to fully extinguish a fire that burned nearly 18 hours.

Three weeks after a 52-year-old crossing guard was killed after being hit by a dump truck on the intersection of Mohawk Road E. and Upper Wentworth Street, city staff say they are waiting for police to finish their investigation in order to review the intersection.

When unexpected financial hardship hit Luis Alvarado and Ana Ruiz - a Jewish couple from Hamilton - they suddenly found themselves unable to afford many of the kosher foods they were used to eating. This kind of situation - where the cost-of-living crisis meets cultural food requirements and preferences - is hitting more and more Hamiltonians. Food banks are trying to fill the gap.

The mayors of Ontario's 29 largest cities are calling on the province to declare a state of emergency as municipalities deal with what they call a "community safety and humanitarian crisis" created by homelessness, mental health and addiction.

In a note written six months after a child died in her care, Becky Hamber said she was not to blame for his death, a Milton, Ont., court heard Friday.

The City of Hamilton is a step closer to joining a growing movement demanding governments, media and the police use the term femicide to refer to gender-based murder.

Public Health Ontario estimates that more than 28 per cent of Hamilton households are food insecure, higher than most other cities and areas in the province. Feed Ontario says Hamilton has slightly more residents who are considered low-income than the provincial average.

The first-degree murder trial of Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber in Milton, Ont., heard texts in which the women questioned whether a boy in their care might be dying a month before his death in December 2022.

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke on Wednesday, five months after his own justice department indicted the former president and chief executive officer of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.

The first-degree murder trial of Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber in Milton, Ont., heard texts in which the women questioned whether a boy in their care might be dying, a month before he did in December 2022.

When the Metis Nutcracker opens this weekend in St. Catharines, Ont., playwright Matthew MacKenzie hopes the audience will get swept away in the magical realism of the show - while also learning about colonialism, the war in Ukraine and the cultures of several Indigenous communities from Turtle Island.

The St. Paul Street West bridge in St. Catharines is open to traffic once again after being under construction for about a year. The bridge - which was completed a year ahead of schedule - connects traffic on either side of the Canadian National Railway train tracks.

Ontario's education minister says he is going to appoint advisers to review the province's approach to standardized testing, as results are not showing enough improvement, particularly in math.

The 85-year-old pedestrian who was hit by a car driven by an off-duty Niagara police officer has since died, according to police.

The first-degree murder trial of Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber in Milton, Ont., heard more audio recordings of the couple berating the brothers in their care, and viewed more texts in which the two demeaned the brothers before the death of the eldest boy in 2022.

Ontario spent a record $112 million on tax-payer-funded advertising last year, with the province's auditor saying nearly 40 per cent of the campaigns could have left a favourable impression" of Premier Doug Ford's government ahead of the snap election.