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Jaida Lee made history at the Canada Summer Games on Monday, becoming the first female to play in the male baseball competition since it began in 1967.

Hamilton police have charged a 41-year-old man with second-degree murder after guitarist Gord Lewis of the punk rock band Teenage Head was found dead Sunday.

Hamilton’s medical officer of health, Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, has issued an extended heat warning as the city bakes under temperatures expected to feel like 40 C on Monday.

Masks won't be mandatory in schools this September, according to the Education Ministry.

Commuters should expect cancellations on GO and UP Express trains over the next two weeks as Metrolinx experiences staff shortages due to illness, the Crown agency says.

The union representing 2,200 GO Transit bus operators, station attendants, plant and fleet maintenance workers, transit safety officers, and office professionals says its members have voted 93 per cent in favour of going on strike if necessary.

Provincial politicians returned to Ontario's legislature Monday and re-elected Ted Arnott as Speaker, ahead of the government presenting a throne speech and reintroduced budget on Tuesday.

Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec have the most medals with four and Ontario has the most golds with four as competition in the 2022 Canada Summer Games got underway Sunday.

An encampment of people experiencing homelessness in downtown Hamilton has sparked tensions with businesses and residents in the neighbourhood.

Growing up, Lise Watson knew home ownership wasn’t for her. But she worries about housing affordability as the future of co-ops like her own seems uncertain.

Benoit Marion returned a blocked punt 24 yards for the go-ahead touchdown to rally the Toronto Argonauts to a wild 34-20 home win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday night.

Canadian Blood Services is urging donors to keep their appointments because it predicts it will fall short of supplies of certain types of blood products next week.

It's the first time the traditional Indigenous sport of box lacrosse has been played at the Canada Games since 1985. This year will also be the first year women have ever been able to play the sport at the competition, which kicks off Saturday.

Healthcare networks in Burlington, Hamilton and Niagara continue to be battered by the seventh wave of COVID-19, while some offer solutions for how they intend to tackle staffing shortages.

A heat warning is in effect for Hamilton, with hot weather expected to blanket the city for the next two days.

The city has released a response to a hateful incident on a Hamilton Street Rail (HSR) bus, where a man livestreamed himself hurling racist, homophobic and transphobic comments at fellow passengers.

Syrian restaurant Tomah is set to reopen its doors towards the end of August after having to close down in February due to a high rent increase.

Ontario's health minister has directed regulatory colleges for nurses and doctors to develop plans to more quickly register internationally educated professionals, a move nursing groups and critics say falls short of the premier's promise to address an emergency room staffing crisis.

Officers of the Niagara Regional Police shot and killed a white arctic wolf that was on the loose since Tuesday.

A Hamilton man who was found guilty of killing his mother and step-father — Carla Rutherford and Alan Rutherford — by setting their house on fire in 2018 is appealing his conviction.

Hamilton-based spoken word artist Fareh Malik is about to release his first poetry collection, which he hopes will help people overcome negativity.

Patrick Tomchuk was granted bail at a hearing in John Sopinka Court, during which his lawyer played a video of his head being kicked and stepped on during his arrest.

Police in the Niagara region are investigating damage to a Canada Summer Games mountain bike course in St. Catharines.

As hospital departments across Ontario have been forced to shut their doors and scale back hours in recent weeks, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday that the province’s health-care system is still meeting the needs of Ontarians.

A white Arctic wolf has escaped an enclosure in Port. Colborne, police say, and is on the loose.

Members of the Black community need to embrace each other as a way to make and maintain a deeper connection to their past, a historian and longtime Hamilton resident said Monday during an Emancipation Day event.

Hamilton police are asking witnesses to come forward after seeing a video of a Hamilton man hurling transphobic and racist insults toward passengers on an HSR bus.

The Hamilton Regional Indian Centre (HRIC) is making recommendations to the Hamilton Police Service (HPS) to help address the "harm done by law enforcement agencies" against Indigenous peoples.

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs from British Columbia were in Six Nations of the Grand River near Brantford, Ont., to start an 18-day tour on Tuesday.

A 51-year-old woman has been charged with Careless Driving Causing Death in relation to a fatal collision on Upper James Street.

'Exceptionally hot and humid conditions' are expected in Hamilton on Wednesday, according to Environment Canada. Daytime temperatures could reach 31 to 33 C and with the humidity, it could feel like 42 or 43.

Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) says the man who used a racial slur in a viral road rage video a few weeks ago is no longer employed with the hospital network.

In her backyard in downtown Hamilton, Hitoko Okada is growing her own indigo plants, which she uses to create dyes in a way that originated in sixth-century Japan.

Niagara police are looking for three suspects involved in an armed robbery on Monday morning.

There's a growing chorus of opposition MPPs calling for Health Minister Sylvia Jones to show up and provide tangible solutions to what they say is a crisis facing the province's health-care system.

People in Hamilton now have the option for an outdoor COVID-19 vaccination clinic for their kids, thanks to an initiative by two local doctors, Kerry Beal and Joe Oliver.

A 37-year-old Mississauga man has died after falling into Lake Ontario on Sunday, Niagara Regional Police Service says.

Amid a prolonged pandemic, laid-off workers took stock and reassessed their priorities. Others, grappling with burnout in precarious or stressful work environments with long hours, simply walked away. So if workers are leaving their jobs, where are they going?

Parents say they're disturbed by Hockey Canada's handling of sexual assault allegations against elite players and politicians say the organization needs to do more to gain back the trust of thousands of hockey families.

Jillian Sunderland wants to embrace her Bajan roots, but her dad seems intent to hold onto the British traditions he grew up with before Barbados gained independence.

The Niagara River Lions avenged their Friday loss to the top-seeded Hamilton Honey Badgers with an 83-79 victory on Sunday afternoon, locking the 2022 Canadian Elite Basketball League playoff picture into place.

A residential school survivor is hopeful Pope Francis’s unqualified use of the word genocide to describe what happened to Indigenous Peoples forced to attend the schools marks a turning point for healing and progress.

Firefighters from Cambridge, Puslinch, Guelph, North Dumfries and Kitchener responded to the fire Saturday.

230 Ontario organizations that work with people on very limited incomes signed an open letter to the provincial government this week. They called on Premier Ford and his government to double social assistance rates when it drafts the budget next month.

Hamilton's Indigenous community and a local anti-racism group are "very concerned" about reports of a local police officer allegedly assaulting an Indigenous man during an arrest in late May.

Dr. Candace Nayman, a McMaster Children's Hospital pediatrics resident, died Thursday after collapsing in the water during a race that was part of the Toronto Triathlon Festival on Sunday, July 24.

On this week’s show: In a special edition of The House, guest host Niigaan Sinclair sits down for a conversation with his father, Murray Sinclair, to discuss what the former Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair and senator thinks about the Pope’s apology. Plus — in-depth looks into how much progress has been made on fulfilling the TRC calls to action around key issues like justice, health and education.

Hamilton has found its first mosquitos bearing West Nile virus of this year, leading the city’s medical officer of Health to increase the risk of contracting the virus from “low” to “moderate.”

Hamilton police say officers arrested a man they believe spray-painted the word "Ducer" in 16 different places in the lower city on Thursday morning.