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Ontario is opening appointments for everyone aged 12 and over to receive an Omicron-targeted COVID-19 vaccine starting next week. The expanded eligibility comes as Ontario reports a rise in COVID-19 test positivity.

International students are being billed four times what Canadians pay to attend college in Ontario, and tens of thousands of them are recruited to private career colleges in office buildings, often with no libraries or common spaces and limited student supports.

The City of Hamilton is asking Ontario's Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks to extend the deadline to clean up the sewage in Chedoke Creek by a year because of demonstrations from representatives of the Haudenosaunee​​​​​​​ Development Institute.

A man was killed after colliding with a pick-up truck and being thrown from his 2003 Suzuki motorcycle.

High speed winds will be passing through the Hamilton and surrounding areas, with increased risks of damages and power outages. Environment Canada warns of wind speeds of 70 to 90km/h.

The $25,000 prizes recognize the best Canadian books of the year.

Canadian pro wrestlers will be among the performers this week in Toronto for U.S.-based All Elite Wrestling's international debut.

The pilot who was killed in March when his plane crashed in Brantford, Ont., the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) says, hit a tree after flying "well below the nominal approach path" to the runway.

Just two weeks before Ontario's municipal election, Ward 14 councillor candidate Kojo Damptey had to pause his door-knocking and campaign efforts to clean off a racist sticker covering one of his ads on a Hamilton Mountain bus shelter.

Chad Silva found two homemade tapes in a donation to his record store that turned out to be a rare recording of a 1973 Neil Young concert at Hamilton's McMaster University. According to Young fan website, Sugar Mountain, it's the only recording of that concert that exists.

Community members gathered at Hamilton Good Shepherd's Mary Street location to enjoy a hot to-go turkey dinner.

Extreme weather continues to hit the global wine industry hard, but a growing number of wineries and vineyards in Ontario's Niagara region are finding ways to adapt to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Niagara Regional Police Services says it responded to a reported vehicle theft around 1:30 a.m. Witnesses said they saw two youth abandon a fire truck in the middle of the road.

Parents and advocates say the wait for autism supports has grown and staffing has shrunk, all while waiting on the province to whittle down its own wait list for funding, which they say is keeping kids from care.

A team of local doctors has released a report showing 10 deaths between Dec. 2021 and May 2022, eight of which were from overdoses and seven were living in shelters.

More Ontario municipalities are using online voting in this month's municipal elections than in 2018, despite the absence of provincial standards on how to conduct it.

Police say two children have been killed in a rural ATV collision in Hamilton.

Calls for students to bring litter-less lunches and reduce, reuse, recycle are already familiar in classrooms across Canada. Attention is now also turning to the way students travel to school and how to reduce the carbon footprint of that weekday trek.

With 71,000 new spaces promised as part of a government deal, the sector wonders who will staff all those new rooms if child-care centres are already having trouble keeping their doors open.

Gord Lewis will be celebrated at the FirstOntario Concert Hall in Hamilton by his friends, family and entertainment peers on Nov. 5. The event for the late Teenage Head guitarist will feature musical appearances, with proceeds going to charity.

Seth Small booted four field goals to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a crucial 18-14 home win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday night at Tim Hortons Field.

This long Thanksgiving weekend, here are some events you can also be thankful for this are happening in Hamilton.

With another long weekend upon us, here's what's open and closed in Hamilton:

The Liberal government is lifting the limit on the number of hours international students are allowed to work off-campus each week in an effort to address Canada's labour shortage.

Advanced polling dates allow voting ahead of election day — on Oct. 7 and 14, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Oct. 8, and 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be one advanced polling location in each of Hamilton's 15 wards.

Families of murder victims went before a committee of MPs on Thursday to condemn a controversial Supreme Court of Canada decision on sentencing law.

Niagara Health says it will temporarily close an urgent care centre this weekend due to a staffing shortage. The Port Colborne Urgent Care Centre is scheduled to close Saturday at 4 p.m. and reopen Sunday at 8 a.m.

After years of delays, construction crews will start work on the Confederation GO station near Centennial Parkway and hope to have it completed by 2025, according to the provincial government.

Change is coming to Hamilton — but what will it look like? Join our panel of community voices to discuss what the next chapter of this city could look like, depending on the outcome of the vote on Oct. 24.

A Hamilton woman says she's "disgusted" that police officers used a Taser on her partner shortly after he suffered a seizure, and then charged him with three counts of assault, saying he concussed an officer during the incident.

The Good Shepherd is hosting its 60th Thanksgiving dinner, and for the third year in a row they will be serving it in take-out containers. This year, Hamilton food banks have seen a 10 per cent increase in people using their services, and around holidays like Thanksgiving, it is common for some to run low on stock.

Voters in Beasley Park and beyond are welcoming the massive change that awaits Hamilton city council with this month's election.

With the municipal election around the corner, for those in Hamilton and surrounding municipalities, we want to hear what's important to you, whether you'll be voting or if you have yet to make a decision.

The iconic 1950s-style ice cream shop, Dairee Delite, in Brantford has been open for almost 70 years and is special to people in the Ontario city, for its sweet treats and colourful history, including an elusive tale about high-stakes poker, with the ice cream stand on the line.

A child welfare worker told a coroner's inquest Tuesday that had she known an Indigenous teen in her care had a history of suicidal thoughts and self-harm, she would have tried to talk to him about it.

Owen Barnes has come across two coyotes in the last month while walking through trails in his Burlington, Ont., neighbourhood.

Canadian photographer Douglas Kirkland, whose intimate shots of Marilyn Monroe taken a year before her death earned him the trust of many Hollywood stars, has died at 88.

When Lisa Funnell played the 2013 version of the Tomb Raider video game, she remembers the moment when her character, Lara Croft, was killed while trying to escape a man who was sexually assaulting her. She asked herself, "Who decided that this content is OK?"

Ontario is putting an additional $342 million toward energy efficiency programs, including paying some customers to run their air conditioning less on hot summer days.

Immigrants who don't have Canadian citizenship, people who are incarcerated, and teens under the age of 18 are among those who don't have the right to vote.

A coalition of sex workers and advocacy groups began presenting arguments on Monday in a landmark Superior Court hearing that they hope will lead to the full decriminalization of sex work in Canada.

Canada's Mackenzie Hughes jumped 31 positions to No. 51 on the official world golf ranking list Monday after winning the Sanderson Farms Championship.

Streets around McMaster University in Hamilton were filled with thousands of students for a “fake homecoming” party.

Ontario education workers such as librarians, custodians and school administration staff have voted 96.5 per cent in favour of a strike.

Doctors are warning there is no consistent or reliable national system to collect and share information on maternal deaths and close calls. This is particularly tragic, they say, because most deaths and adverse outcomes are preventable. In the absence of government leadership, doctors are working to change that.

Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont. defeated Sepp Straka of Vienna, Austria in an intense playoff Sunday to win the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi.

Many doctors and nurses across Canada have been calling for help for months, as the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed resources that they say were already stretched, and has led to an unparalleled wave of staff shortages that they say has now reached a breaking point.

The federal government offers its employees a variety of Indigenous cultural awareness and sensitivity programs, but participation in the optional sessions is relatively low.

Imran Hasan says his run for municipal council in Mississauga is a way to provide newcomers with something his father didn’t have when he arrived in Canada in 1973 — someone who looked like him in politics.

Ontarians who make minimum wage are waking up to a raise.