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The fire department in Burlington, Ont. is warning people of a new scam involving fraudsters who they say are impersonating "fire personnel" to sell fake safety kits.

Hamilton police have arrested a man wanted for shooting at a West Mountain townhouse complex – critically injuring a 27-year-old man – at the Edmonton airport.

A program being run by the Hamilton Regional Indian Centre (HRIC) is helping Indigenous women who are single mothers get a college diploma.

The driver who hit and killed migrant worker Fermin Soto Sanchez in June was charged on Wednesday, with careless driving causing death, according to police.

Hamilton police have arrested four people and are looking for one more after a man woke up tied to a chair in an east-end basement, then managed to escape.

Mayors, police leaders and businesses in Ontario are calling on the province to provide more help in dealing with the growing homelessness and opioid crises gripping both big cities and small towns.

Hydro One tower repairs will cause an extended power outage in Mississaugas of the Credit territory and Dunnville on Aug. 23 and Aug. 28 respectively.

Soaring food inflation rates, coupled with increased costs of ingredients and takeout materials, are forcing business owners in Hamilton and across Ontario to adapt — and in some cases, close shop.

A Run for Chris, organized in partnership with St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, is taking place on Aug. 21 at Joe Sams Leisure Park. All donations will go toward a St. Joe's program to help young adults with addiction issues.

Sixteen groups have joined together to pen a letter to Ontario’s chief coroner asking him to investigate whether SUVs and pickup trucks cause more pedestrian and cycling deaths than smaller vehicles.

Amid this summer’s airport chaos, there’s growing frustration from passengers who say they’re being unfairly denied compensation for flight disruptions.

Interest rates are still low and economy-watchers expect borrowing costs to keep rising, even as consumers find everything but gas is getting dearer.

The city of Hamilton is ready to dredge Chedoke Creek, four years after the public discovered that 24 billion litres of sewage spilled into Cootes Paradise from a sewer valve that was partially opened from 2014 to 2018.

Shimmy, a Blanding’s turtle, spent the first 35 years of his life, give or take, on the north shore of Lake Erie. He’d been tracked numerous times by biologists there, who remarked on his 'odd characteristics': two missing feet, at the front left and rear right.

Police are asking the public to help identify a man who they say dragged a woman off a Hamilton Mountain trail in an “unprovoked” attack a month ago.

As rent prices spiked over the past two months, affordable pockets of rental housing became harder and harder to find.

Ontario is unlikely to meet its lofty goal of building 1.5 million homes by 2031 to alleviate the housing crisis, according to a new report from the Smart Prosperity Institute, an Ottawa-based think-tank.

The OHL's ONSIDE sexual assault training program has been paused since the 2020 season was cancelled and the 2021 season was restricted with pandemic lockdowns. The training program will return this year in the wake of Hockey Canada's sexual assault reckoning.

Ontario is offering to give education workers who make less than $40,000 raises of two per cent a year, and 1.25 per cent for everyone else in a proposed four-year deal.

The federal government is investing over $1.9 million to help a Hamilton-based organization form a network for Black-led businesses in southwestern Ontario.

As the deadline to register to run in this fall’s municipal election looms, there are now multiple councillor candidates registered to run in each of Hamilton’s ridings — except Ward 6.

Two organizations in Six Nations of the Grand River have started a fundraiser with a $1 million goal to help replace a replica 17th-century longhouse badly damaged in a recent fire.

Canada's housing market continued to cool in July, with the average home price clocking in at $629,971 — a figure that drops by $104,000 when excluding the Greater Toronto Area and Vancouver markets.

Police say the man hasn't worked as a camp counsellor at Mohawk College since the summer of 2017, but "believe that there may be more victims and encourage anyone with information to come forward."

Companies able to hike prices with inflation are seeing rising profits. Wages aren't keeping pace. Markets surged when U.S. inflation peaked, but a plunge in spending, a rise in wage demands, and more rate hikes could mean trouble ahead.

Canadians are getting creative trying to cut the long waits for passports that have been dragging on for close to five months after a surge in post-pandemic travel demand overwhelmed the system.

The top-seeded Hamilton Honey Badgers captured their first Canadian Elite Basketball League title with a 90-88 victory over the expansion Scarborough Shooting Stars on Sunday in Ottawa.

Starting Monday, crews will begin overnight work to reduce Main Street from five lanes to four and will also add a bus lane, a pedestrian buffer on the south lane, and bump outs.

The Hamilton Mountain is getting a new family medicine clinic that is poised to serve roughly 3,600 patients, an addition that comes amid a Canadian shortage of family physicians.

Ottawa is making plans to expand the offerings of its ArriveCAN app even as criticism continues to mount over the mandatory data-entry process for travellers entering the country.

There's a fresh cohort of new educators eager to fill the gaps this coming school year, especially after many saw first-hand the last few years how much they're needed. However, some are facing obstacles — both new and pre-dating the pandemic — to getting stable work in classrooms.

With a number of Ontario emergency rooms forced to close this summer due to staffing crunches, one paramedic chief outside Ottawa says a more community-based approach to health care could help ease the pressure.

The City of Hamilton voted Friday in favour of no longer requiring current staff to provide proof of vaccination.

Hamilton's fire chief says "significant quantities of hand sanitizer" is keeping a large barn fire burning near Flamborough.

A union representing Ontario education workers is planning to talk about organizing strike votes at a meeting later this month, a move the education minister calls "needless escalation."

Two Hamilton city councillors cautioned local public health officials about how they presented new monkeypox data, saying it could stigmatize gay and bisexual men.

With a string of events coming up in Hamilton as the summer progresses, here's a guide to some things you could do this weekend.

Paige Poelman says she gets some surprised reactions when she tells people at the Canada Summer Games, now underway in the Niagara Region of Ontario, that she’s on the Yukon’s beach volleyball team.

CBC Sports' daily newsletter previews the CEBL's championship weekend, which features four Ontario teams each battling for their first title.

After new reports of polio cases abroad, and virus samples in the wastewater of several other developed countries, Canada intends to start testing wastewater from a number of cities "as soon as possible," CBC News has learned.

Ontario is reporting 96 more deaths linked to COVID-19 over the past seven days, making this the deadliest week of the seventh wave so far.

The city's public works committee has unanimously voted to install security cameras in John Rebecca Park to try and address concerns about an encampment there.

The Hamilton Police Services Board is requesting the police service review all policies and procedures related to prisoner handling and use of force after an officer was accused of assaulting an Indigenous man during an arrest.

The victim in the latest homicide in Hamilton is Teenage Head guitarist Gord Lewis, police have confirmed following an autopsy.

Hamilton public health is warning residents to avoid all contact with water near Pier 4 in the city's harbour after discovering a toxin-producing blue-green algae.

Temporary emergency room closures and increased wait times have become increasingly common in Ontario as the province's health-care system grapples with staffing shortages.

More than four years after the launch of a class action lawsuit against a company that ran student travel excursions, an Ontario court has approved a settlement between the organization and former trip leaders who argued they were not paid as employees.

Alberta led the way on Wednesday, picking up four of its 13 total gold medals in the pool at the Canada Games.

Hamilton city councillors unanimously voted Wednesday to support a federal government initiative to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illegal drugs.

Hamilton police say officers are searching for a "serial arsonist" after a man ignited fires at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses twice in two days.