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CBC Hamilton has won a top award for digital news gathering for its coverage of a deadly kidnapping and the reaction of the local Pakistani community.

Perfetto, a horse from Freelton, Ont., has been selected to race in the one of the world's most prestigious races featuring trotting horses. The Elitloppet takes place in Stockholm, Sweden on Sunday May 29.

As summer travel plans begin, people in Hamilton are facing long waits to get their passports renewed. On Thursday morning, at least 40 people were waiting under the rain outside Service Canada on Upper James Street before it opened at 8:30 a.m.

Services at the Saltfleet District High School site and Today's Family childcare centre will remain closed on Tuesday due to a continued power outage from the storm this weekend.

When it comes to the staggering cost of gasoline, what exactly is behind the price consumers are paying? CBC News breaks down what you're paying for at the pump.

Both the Ontario Liberals and NDP had hoped that they would have definitively left the other in the dust by this point in the election campaign, and sitting within clear striking distance of Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives.

Downtown resident says trucks don't obey the existing rules to stay off his street, so he wonders if the new routes will get better compliance.

As the death toll related to the powerful storm that swept Ontario and Quebec on Saturday reached 10 on Monday, some of the hardest-hit communities were still working to take stock of the damage.

Soaring gas prices may mean some people will stay close to home this summer, but Niagara Falls, Ont., is so far seeing no shortage of visitors as the tourism season picks up.

The four major political parties are promising billions in transit spending. All of them pledge expand transit networks, and three of them say they'll subsidize fares and operations. Here's what they're promising.

As the sun poked out from behind the mountains in Kamloops, B.C., early Monday morning, dozens of people gathered at the Tk̓emlúps Powwow Arbour to mark the one-year anniversary of the announcement that potential unmarked graves had been found at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Three of Ontario's four main parties are promising to change the province's electoral system, a lofty goal some political science experts say may not come to pass.

Damaged trees, power lines and buildings in Hamilton leave over 450 customers without power on Sunday following a storm that tore through Southern Ontario on Saturday.

Marineland has banned a number of people from its premises, some of whom have never visited the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction, days before the facility was set to open for the season.

All four major parties report dealing with hateful incidents in Ontario's election campaign, often targeting racialized candidates.

A series of dangerous thunderstorms rolled across southern Ontario on Saturday leaving four people dead.

Ontario reported 1,116 hospitalizations and 12 new deaths due to COVID-19 on Saturday.

Over 60 students from two local secondary schools celebrated Eid al-Fitr together on Friday. The event spurred the first-ever Muslim Student Association for one of the schools and the organizer hopes it might inspire school boards to observe such days of significance.

This season of Someone Knows Something: The Abortion Wars will to look into the doctors who were the targets of anti-abortion activists in the 1990s for providing abortion services, including Hamilton doctor Dr. Hugh Short.

Hamilton police have arrested and charged two men with first-degree murder following the shooting death 3½ years ago of Marko Bakir, 31.

This Victoria Day weekend, you can check out an art show, cheer for the Hamilton Bulldogs or - responsibly -- set off some fireworks.

The southern Ontario community where a girl's remains were found in a river this week is "in shock and is searching for information on how such a thing could happen," Haldimand County’s deputy mayor said Thursday. OPP shared new details with CBC on Friday.

The Ontario election campaign has largely ignored Indigenous people and issues, according to several current and former political leaders and analysts who hope that will change soon ahead of the June 2 vote.

Conservative leadership hopeful Leslyn Lewis claims an international pandemic treaty could lead to the suspension of the Constitution and a global government. The experts say she's got it all wrong.

For a few days this month, Jessica Watson's kitchen table in Hagersville, Ont., was covered with thousands of spiny, black caterpillars, part of a raise-and-release butterfly business she says will add pollinators to the area.

The city of Hamilton has ordered accessible transit provider DARTS to immediately pull more than one-third of its fleet off the road amid an audit it says revealed "significant failure rates" during safety inspections.

Two of the leaders of Ontario's four major political parties have been sidelined with COVID-19 with two weeks left to election day.

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the Ontario government's appeal on whether or not it will be able to keep PC Leader Doug Ford's mandate letters secret.

Doug Ford rolled into NDP Leader Andrea Horwath’s home turf of Hamilton and aimed to persuade blue-collar workers to vote for him June 2, in what one expert sees as an effort by the Progressive Conservative leader to try to reduce the NDP's ability to "make a late-campaign play" for the union vote.

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after the remains of a girl — estimated to be between one and four years old — were found in the Grand River.

Const. Ian Milburn has been charged with one count of discreditable conduct after he pleaded guilty to assault for an incident where he lunged at a woman.

Hamilton police say a 49-year-old man has been charged with careless driving causing bodily harm in connection with a crash at the end of March that left a 14-year-old girl seriously injured.

More than 1,500 people were actively experiencing homelessness in Hamilton as of March, according to a new dashboard the city will use to track shelter space and housing affordability.

When Ontario signed a deal with the federal government to introduce $10-a-day child care, the province said parents would start seeing rebates in May — but with the program still in its early stages, the sector says that's unlikely to happen.

Hamilton's planning committee voted unanimously to support inclusionary zoning, which would require developers to include affordable housing along the city's Light Rail Transit (LRT) route.

For keeners looking to cast an early ballot for the provincial election, there’s good news — advanced polls open on Thursday. Here's where you can find them in Hamilton.

Anna met "Jay Singh" on Plenty of Fish. It turns out the real name of the man from Ontario's Waterloo region wasn't the only thing he was keeping from her: He also has a history of fraud allegations by other women.

Veteran Canadian offensive lineman Chris Van Zeyl began his day at Tim Hortons Field but not in his usual spot at right tackle. Instead, it was outside the stadium alongside teammates, fans and members of other unions in a show of solidarity for striking CFL players and their wish the league return to the bargaining table.

The Ontario Progressive Conservatives gained the endorsement of another construction workers' union on the campaign trail, while the more traditionally union-friendly NDP secured the backing of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which represents 180,000 workers.

A Black family who says the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board is inadequately addressing racism and violence, including involving their 14-year-old daughter, is co-ordinating with Parents of Black Children and others to drive change.

Both the American and Canadian Horseshoe Falls will be illuminated in an orange glow from 11 p.m. to midnight ET on Tuesday, according to the Niagara Parks Commission.

Masks will no longer be mandatory for students, staff and visitors at McMaster, starting next month, though the university says they're still "strongly" encouraged.

Norfolk County OPP say a man who tried to avoid a RIDE program in Simcoe by turning down a dead-end street has been charged after police stopped his vehicle and found 2,000 cannabis plants.

Hamilton city staff recommend that by-laws prohibiting alcohol consumption in city parks be reinstated after realizing that municipal law enforcement officers have been issuing liquor related charges since 2005 without the proper provisions in place.

Members of the Black community in Canada on Monday are warning this country is also vulnerable to hate crime as they react with shock and horror to Saturday's bloodshed in Buffalo that left 10 Black people dead.

Hamilton police are looking for an "armed and dangerous" suspect after a Sunday morning shooting that sent one person to the hospital.

Hamilton's Light Rail Transit sub-committee met for the first time in nearly five years Monday, and heard from residents urging the city to ensure affordable housing is built into construction plans along the transit corridor.

Crews arrived at 172 Bay Street South around 1:20 a.m. following reports of a fire on the seventh floor. No injuries were reported.

Ontario's major political party leaders sparred over the province's past and future in a prime-time debate Monday, with health care, education, affordability and climate change sparking tense exchanges.