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The demonstration turned into a stand off when protesters said they wouldn't leave until all 10 councillors around the table told them if they'll vote 'yes' or 'no' for the budget.

Hamilton police say they are looking for the individuals involved in a crime spree that left one man seriously injured after he was hit with a stolen utility truck on Sunday morning in Stoney Creek.

The federal government will propose a decade-long plan to fund and reform the health-care system when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the premiers in Ottawa on Tuesday, according to sources with knowledge of the plan.

A 20-year-old woman is in "serious but stable condition" after a shooting outside a basketball court in Burlington, Ont., overnight Sunday.

An earthquake near Buffalo, N.Y., with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2, was "lightly felt" in parts of southern Ontario Monday morning, according to Earthquakes Canada.

Introducing a mask mandate when respiratory viruses surged in the fall may not have eased the crush on pediatric hospitals, a Public Health Ontario science brief obtained by The Canadian Press concludes.

A Hamilton nurse with 21 years of experience says the emergency health care system is broken and staffing shortages are compounding the issue. Her comments come as Hamilton Health Sciences says it has 700 vacant nursing jobs and 1,500 total unfilled positions.

The Florida Panthers are trying to sign a high-scoring forward who has an Olympic gold medal and two world championships, with hopes of getting the deal done in the coming days.

McMaster University's men's basketball team will forfeit two regular-season games played last month due to the participation of an ineligible student-athlete.

Marit Stiles officially became the new leader of the Ontario NDP on Saturday after a majority of party members voted in favour of the lone candidate.

The fax machine is 1980s technology that's still being widely used in Ontario's health-care system, but that could soon change.

The number of Ontarians without a family doctor has swelled to 2.2 million, according to a new report — just more evidence for some in the medical field that primary care is in crisis.

The cheers at FLA Live Arena were the loudest when Sarah Nurse of Canada's women's team scored during the NHL all-star skills competition Friday night in Sunrise, Fla.

Thousands of Indigo-branded ceramic mugs and other houseware products have been recalled due to possible mould contamination, says Health Canada.

The Ontario PC Party on Friday announced the nomination of Hamilton police officer, Sgt. Peter Wiesner, as its candidate in the upcoming Hamilton Centre provincial byelection.

Here is a list of events to mark Black History Month 2023 in Hamilton.

Canada's Kia Nurse is headed to the northwest. The Hamilton, Ont., native announced on Twitter on Friday that she was signing with the Seattle Storm in free agency, leaving the Phoenix Mercury after two seasons.

Several cities in Ontario are urging individuals to report coyote dens near residential areas and remain wary of the animals as mating season for the canines is underway.

The lawyer representing the family of a teenager who died at a government-run school for blind students in Brantford, Ont., says the 1,825 day wait for an inquest is illegal.

The Doug Ford government is proposing to change some of the rules governing long-term care homes, including slapping higher fines on facilities that don't have air conditioning in place by this summer.

A northern Ontario First Nation that has lived under a boil-water advisory for nearly three decades has hired an outside consultant to find out once and for all what ails the community's water system.

It took minutes for a fire to rip through Erin Watson’s home in Hamilton and destroy everything, and she credits her dog Jack with saving her life. Structural fires such as these are burning hotter and faster, officials say, because buildings and contents are increasingly made from synthetics and petroleum-based products.

Environment Canada has issued a snow squall watch for Hamilton, Burlington and the County of Brant.

Niagara police say officers are investigating a "swatting" incident — when a person makes a fake 911 call to send the police to someone's home.

School boards and at least one college in Hamilton and surrounding areas are on high alert for any students trying to cheat using a new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT.

New municipal workers in Hamilton will continue to be required to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19, after councillors narrowly defeated a motion that would have seen the requirement struck from the books on Wednesday.

This year's Groundhog Day forecast was officially announced at 8:07 a.m. ET Thursday from Wiarton, Ont., but Willie wasn't the only four-legged prognosticator with a view on how the weather will fare in the coming weeks.

Thirty-eight years ago, Don Burnstick was sitting in rehab trying to figure out his life. He had to process the trauma and hurt he’d endured as a child. It was uncomfortable. It’s these experiences he draws from that make him so relatable to an Indigenous audience.

A Hamilton construction company has agreed to pay $175,000 in damages for illegally dumping contaminated water into Lake Ontario in 2018.

For the past year, Hanna Trofimova has been helping Ukrainian families settle in Canada after fleeing war — the same way she had to leave Ukraine with her family.

Anthony Marco, president of Hamilton and District Labour Council plans to introduce a no-cost or "Care Fare Public Transit Initiative" at the city council budget meeting scheduled for Feb. 6.

Hamilton's director of economic development isn’t sure if the city’s Ontario Hockey League team will ever come back home after being forced to move to Brantford for at least the next three years.

The man who nearly beat Andrea Horwath to become Hamilton's mayor has been appointed to vice-president of member services at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.

With Hamilton's declaration of a cold weather alert starting Tuesday night — and temperatures expected to drop to -16 C Friday morning — people experiencing homelessness risk frostbite and should spend as much time indoors as possible, says Environment Canada meteorologist Peter Kimbell.

Hamilton Black History Council and other Black-led organizations have partnered with the city to launch Black History Month and honour more than a dozen key figures in Hamilton's Black history.

The maker of ChatGPT is trying to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework.

Catholic Family Services of Hamilton (CFS) is shutting down on April 30 because of "concerns about the ongoing viability" of the organization.

The Weeknd topped the Junos’ nominations list today, just ahead of Avril Lavigne and Tate McRae, who have five each.

The Hamilton Bulldogs are poised to play in Brantford for the next three years and temporarily rebrand as the Brantford Bulldogs while Hamilton's FirstOntario Centre undergoes renovations.

A court ruling that blocks the eviction of a Kitchener, Ont., encampment could affect municipalities across Canada that are contending with tent cities of their own, legal experts say.

Sixteen days before he died, a Hamilton man was in hospital when he signed a handwritten will that gives a local church his condo. Now, the church is in a court battle against his common-law partner, who argues the will was obtained under "suspicious circumstances."

The Ontario Nurses' Association started negotiating a new contract Monday for hospital nurses and the union is planning to take its push for higher wages beyond the bargaining table.

The recent death of Hamilton student Yaqoub Saeed has prompted neighbours in the Mountain area near St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School to call for improved safety measures to better protect pedestrians and cyclists.

Hamilton police and McMaster University say a 20-year-old student was arrested after a small fire was set at the Bates residence on campus this past weekend.

David Onley, a former lieutenant-governor for Ontario, was remembered Monday as a tireless advocate, a role model, a man of faith and a devoted husband, father and grandfather.

A group that aims to promote lacrosse among Anishinaabe communities is developing a parallel program for women and girls.

Hamilton councillors look unlikely to get the chance they wanted to grill local Conservative MPPs on the impacts of Bill 23, which they say will reduce the city's ability to pay for critical infrastructure such as roads, water treatment services and transit.

The vast majority of workers in Ontario haven’t experienced anything quite like it during their entire working lives: a labour market tilted in their favour.

Hamilton councillors are hitting pause on the plan to build tiny homes for unhoused residents in order to better understand how those homes will be run and how the community they are hoping to serve will be impacted.

Two 15-year-old males were arrested Friday in relation to threats made to schools in Fort Erie, Ont., police said. They have been charged with three counts each of uttering threats, among other charges.