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Internal documents reveal at least 1,000 expired N95 masks were used by front-line health-care workers in Hamilton during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Evelyn Myrie, educator and president of Hamilton's Afro Canadian Caribbean Association and Rayanne Banaga, a peer support worker facilitating a program aimed at improving access to mental health support for racialized youth, talk about how the teaching of Black history needs to change.

Hamilton Public Health Services says Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School (1824 Rymal Rd. E.) and Orchard Park Secondary School (200 Dewitt Rd.) will offer the testing from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for asymptomatic students and staff of those schools.

A 48-year-old Hamilton man was arrested early Friday morning after police say he stabbed his brother.

A winter weather travel advisory is in effect in Hamilton and Niagara because Environment Canada says both areas should receive roughly 10 centimetres of lake effect snow on Friday.

Hamilton city council voted down using year-end surpluses from the local police service for social programs.

Madelene Peternel, 33, the widow of Tony Divers was shot to death by police on Sept. 30, 2016, has been arrested and charged for an attempted murder on Wednesday, Hamilton police say.

Niagara Region Public Health has been using every last drop of its Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines — so much so they have always been able to get a sixth dose from the five-dose vials and, half the time, a seventh dose. Brant County has also extracted extra doses.

After months of isolation, people want to send flowers, Niagara florists say.

Residents will have the chance to review the progress on Hamilton's community safety and well-being plan, which is aimed at reducing key issues like hate incidents, violence, mental illness, drug use, homelessness and access to income.

Some Hamilton city councillors are frustrated with their lack of control over the location of cannabis retail stores and worry that despite the city and community's objections, they'll continue to pop up in cheaper neighbourhood lots.

Health authorities in Niagara Region are warning about a COVID-19 vaccination scam.

A student at Dundas Valley Secondary School, Earl Kitchener Elementary School and Westdale Secondary School all respectively tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.

A 30-year-old Hamilton man is in critical condition after police say he was stabbed in the central lower city on Wednesday night.

A Burlington company that makes equipment to distribute electrical energy has been charged $90,000 and a a 25-per cent victim fine surcharge after failing to protect a worker who got injured in 2019.

A prominent Black advocacy organization has joined a chorus of voices calling on four Hamilton-area school board trustees to resign after a recent report found they contributed to a dynamic that marginalized and silenced a former student trustee.

The City of Hamilton will reconsider rezoning the lands at 1400 Baseline Road in Stoney Creek following pushback by residents in the area who say they were left out of the decision.

Hamilton Public Health Services has resumed full contact tracing and management in the city now that COVID-19's spread has slowed. But it has yet to restart its data collection of who the pandemic has hit hardest.

McMaster University is opening up space for 20 foster children to get their university or graduate degrees without paying for tuition.

Hamilton's medical officer of health says public health is speaking with Ontario's Ministry of Education about how local schools can implement asymptomatic testing for students and staff as they return to in-person learning.

Police say about 80 foreign nationals were living in places in Hamilton and Milton. Some of those places were infested with bed bugs.

A 28-year-old Hamilton man has been arrested after police say he shot his father in their home on the Mountain.

A 55-year-old man is dead and a 58-year-old man is in critical condition after a residential fire on Concession Street.

Dr. Sonny Kohli, a practicing physician at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at McMaster University, says a mobile app produced in part by a company he co-founded will help bring COVID-19 survivors and long-haulers together in an online environment where they can learn from each other.

Several Hamiltonians who have been missing out on live performances because of the COVID-19 pandemic had live music, food and beer delivered to their doorsteps on Saturday.

Hamilton's medical officer of health, Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, has expressed some level of unease with the city’s return to the provincial framework later this week, even though the number of new cases of COVID-19 have dropped significantly.

Hamilton police have arrested and charged a 22-year-old Hamilton man with murder in connection with the death of 35-year-old Ethan MacCullouch.

The province is reviving Hamilton's light-rail transit system (LRT) with a renewed $1 billion commitment to get the project going again — but it'll be drastically reduced, and is contingent on the feds stepping up too.

Bell is cancelling its all-sports format on radio stations in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Hamilton, barely a week after announcing hundreds of job cuts at media properties across Canada.

Organizers of this year’s Around the Bay race are promising “a genuine bay race experience,” as they announce the addition of a new race category called “The Hammer."

A 40-year-old Brantford man has been charged with making and possessing child pornography, and police say there may be other victims.

The family of Samuel Brown, a deaf and blind teen who died at a provincially run school for the blind in Brantford, hopes to bring its "breakthrough" before a jury to render a final verdict about how Samuel died and offer recommendations on how to avoid more deaths.

The trustees named in the racism probe spurred by former student trustee Ahona Mehdi may face consequences for the report's conclusions on how they acted.

Hillcrest Elementary School, including the child care and before- and after-school programs, will be closed on Tuesday.

Hamilton police are investigating in the area of King Street East and Grant Avenue after a Monday night shooting.

A new partnership between McMaster University and Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) in northern Ontario is hoping to help improve eye care for Indigenous children and youth in northern communities.

What has a turret, a tower, 12 bedrooms, eight bathrooms and eight fireplaces? Hamilton's Ravenscliffe Castle does — and it's on the market.

Bylaw officers and police laid charges against a 32-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man and a 52-year-old man.

On Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. CBC Hamilton asks 'would there be less racism if we were better at teaching Black history?' We'll talk with Evelyn Myrie, president of the Afro Canadian Caribbean Association, and Rayanne Banaga, a peer support facilitator of a program aimed at improving access to mental health support for racialized youth.

Hamilton's live music venues have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and two have taken to crowdfunding to stay alive.

The stay-at-home order in Hamilton, Niagara, Brant, Burlington, Haldimand and Norfolk is set to end next Tuesday, Feb. 16, according to the province.

The Niagara Regional Police Service says it's uncovered $3.6 million in drugs as part of the largest seizure of fentanyl in Niagara history.

A group of young people in Ontario are exploring their African heritage. Calling themselves TRAD, they’ve launched an online magazine that weaves together videos, art, poetry and live virtual gatherings to examine big questions through the lenses of philosophy and the arts.

Ontario Provincial Police in Brant say a pedestrian has been hit on Highway 403.

Coun. Brad Clark has resigned from three council committees.

The Medical Officer of Health for the City of Hamilton has issued a cold weather alert effective Sunday night, as frigid temperatures are set to hit the city.

Hamilton Public Health Services is reporting 88 new cases of COVID-19 and three deaths linked to the virus on Sunday.

A 32-year-old man was arrested for impaired driving after his pickup truck fell through the ice at the Bayfront Boat Launch, Hamilton police say.

Niagara's population makeup, the province's response and other factors have caused a spike in deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite Ontario's overall downward trend in new COVID-19 cases, sharp regional differences in the rates of transmission make it unlikely that the Ford government will lift public health restrictions uniformly across the province in the coming week.