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Hamilton city councillors say Alectra Utilities has blindsided them after the massive utility says it's too busy to continue delivering local water bills.

A Burlington man is facing multiple charges after allegedly defrauding eight victims of more than 600-thousand dollars.

While people were indulging in Thanksgiving dinner on the weekend, Andre Morgan of Hamilton was busy finishing the last of the 126 kilometres he ran over five days — sometimes overnight, and occasionally in the rain.

Three Hamilton-area restaurants have been charged for not enforcing vaccine passports according to the city website.

The vacant buildings will start being knocked down as soon as next month, pending permit approvals, according to the transit provider.

Niagara police are investigating after a bust of Harriet Tubman was toppled over in St. Catharines, Ont., smashing the face of the famed abolitionist.

Sandie Bellows, a Niagara regional councillor, died Sunday evening following a "brave battle with cancer," according to a statement from the Niagara Parks Commission.

Zellers returns as a pop-up inside an Ontario Hudson's Bay store, months after parent company HBC saw the discount department store's trademark removed from the government register.

Boris Bede's 51-yard field goal on the final play of the game capped a wild fourth quarter and earned the Toronto Argonauts a stirring 24-23 road win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Monday in Hamilton, Ont.

Good Shepherd provided hundreds of Thanksgiving meals to community members on Monday, in an annual tradition it said it was determined to continue in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pranysqa Mishra won the job of singing the Canadian national anthem at all seven Hamilton Tiger-Cats home games this series.

The lawyer for an Ontario man charged with falsely claiming to have committed terrorist acts as a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant says his client is relieved after the charge was withdrawn.

St. Joe's has declared a COVID-19 outbreak in its specialized unit for kidney disease after two patients tested positive for the illness.

Ontario reported another 535 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. Of the new case count, 388 cases have presented in people who are either not fully vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unclear. In comparison, 147 cases occurred in people who have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

People at Supercrawl's On The Bay edition were happy to be there, even with a different vibe than past years.

Hamilton police have arrested and charged a Woodstock, Ont., man with attempted murder in connection with the sexual assault of a woman in Hamilton's east end.

Hamilton police say a 25-year-old man is facing numerous charges after a deadly home invasion and abduction.

Looking for things to do this Thanksgiving long weekend? Here are some fun events going on in and around Hamilton from Friday until Monday.

The Ministry of Labour has issued an order against Nique, a downtown Hamilton restaurant refusing to enforce Ontario's vaccine passport.

"That means juice boxes and other things that I could do for the kids," says one mother. "It is a lot of money saved."

Hamilton police have arrested a 19-year-old man from Burlington in connection with what McMaster University said was a 'fake homecoming' event near the university's campus on Oct. 2.

Councillors last week voted against holding a byelection for the job, which someone will hold for a year.

Residents, landowners and cottage owners in the township of Fort Erie are advised not to move hemlock materials or any kind of firewood to prevent the further spread of hemlock woolly adelgid.

A 45-year-old Niagara Falls man has been charged after he allegedly spat on a police officer and kicked another.

A downtown Hamilton restaurant is up for sale just a week after its owner said he wouldn’t enforce Ontario’s proof of vaccination policy.

Food bank users in Hamilton are struggling significantly more than most low-income residents, according to a study by researchers at McMaster University.

A group bidding to bring the Commonwealth Games to Hamilton in 2030 says it doesn't need money from the city for venues anymore, despite earlier plans showing the city would need to hand over millions.

A St. Catharines woman said her family is still reeling after they got infected with COVID-19 in the first week of school.

Ontario reported 476 new cases of COVID-19 and the deaths of 14 more people with the illness on Wednesday.

Three months after sending in their application, Zoe Nedoborski's mother Mary says the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services hasn’t even looked at it yet, let alone made any decisions on funding, leaving her family of six on the hook for more than $280 in private therapy every week.

Author Andrew Hunter has posted dozens of signs around the community of Dundas remembering a former slave, but the City of Hamilton says they violate a bylaw that could come with fines.

Premier Doug Ford's Ontario PC Party is launching a pre-election advertising blitz with campaign style spots attacking his opponents and promoting Ford's response to COVID-19.

Hamilton police are investigating numerous reports of sexual violence and sexual harassment at Waterdown District High School.

A Hamilton police officer will soon learn the outcome of his case after facing charges related to tweets he made, including those that implied a city councillor is connected to organized crime.

Untreated Hamilton wastewater was discharged into the harbour Sunday night after an equipment failure at the city’s Woodward Avenue wastewater treatment plant.

A new local food business is moving into the York Boulevard building recently vacated by the Mustard Seed Co-op in Hamilton.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating the death of a man at Hamilton's Devil's Punchbowl conservation area Monday afternoon.

Hamilton's medical officer of health and the mayor denounced the 'hooliganism' during an unofficial homecoming event on Saturday, saying it could lead to an uptick in COVID-19 cases given the city's 'fragile' phase in the pandemic.

Hamilton bylaw officers have laid the first charge against a business not enforcing Ontario's proof of vaccination policy.

McMaster students who attended the unofficial homecoming event or were impacted by it say they're shocked and saddened by how out of control the celebrations became.

Hamilton police arrested Jheidon Serieaux on Sunday, the man wanted in connection to Christopher Sim’s murder in August outside the Mission Services men’s shelter.

Val King cried as she shared her personal story for the first time in front of an audience, at Monday's Sisters in Spirit vigil honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, trans and two-spirited people.

The new director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI) is helping hundreds of thousands of people understand Indigenous history in Canada. Tracy Bear spoke to CBC Hamilton after a virtual discussion with star Dan Levy, who completed the course, and its instructor.

McMaster University said it will be 'cooperating fully' with Hamilton police and supporting their work to identify those who participated in any illegal activities during a “fake homecoming” event on Saturday.

David Côté's 36-yard field goal in overtime earned the Montreal Alouettes a come-from-behind 23-20 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday.

New Hamilton project, Depave Paradise, aims to replace parking lots, concrete and asphalt with gardens and trees.

Downtown Hamilton restaurant Nique has closed temporarily after facing scrutiny for its refusal to enforce the Ontario-mandated vaccine passport.

David Fernandes created Creepy Bits, a six-episode horror series, in the lead up to Halloween.

The 150 kilogram statue of a general from the War of 1812 has been stolen, police say, from a Niagara Falls cemetery.

The minimum wage in Ontario goes up by 10 cents an hour on Friday, an increase that some, like grocery store worker Brady Hakker, are dismissing as so little that it's basically meaningless.