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Ontario is expanding its COVID-19 testing options for students and staff at the province's 4,800 schools as well as increasing rapid testing requirements for unvaccinated staff.

The Brampton family of Samuel Brown hopes to get closer to the truth now that the province has announced an inquest into the sudden death of the W. Ross Macdonald student, who had been attending an Ontario school for the blind in Brantford.

Hamilton city council says it wants a more thorough apology from a veterans committee member who took part in an online meeting while driving.

Bad & Boujee on John Street South was issued nine tickets on Oct. 23, the highest number of charges for a Hamilton business on a single day, according to the city.

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating after it says someone stole $100,000 worth of chocolate on Saturday.

A lawyer representing 1492 Land Back Lane spokesperson Skyler Williams told Ontario's Court of Appeal on Tuesday that the legal process that led to injunctions around a disputed housing development contained "no attempt at reconciliation."

Patients who were remotely monitored for a month after non-elective surgery had medication errors fixed more quickly and endured less pain than those given standard post-surgery care, according to a new Canadian study published in the British Medical Journal.

After hearing 'no' when they were younger from the modelling industry, 21-year-old Hamilton twin brothers Uwakmfonabasi and Mokutimabasi Nyong are now featured on a larger than life print, part of ArtworxTO.

The two Hamilton paramedics guilty for their part in the death of 19-year-old Yosif Al-Hasnawi, who was shot outside a mosque in 2017, will be sentenced in mid-January.

Filomena Tassi was sworn in Tuesday.

Salar Madadi, who owns Hamilton's Maipai tiki and pizza bar, recently competed in the Canadian Pizza Summit. He won best pizza recipe for the restaurant's Mala Honey Pie.

Strong, shore-bound winds and waves as high as two metres are forecast for today and the resulting storm surge could raise the risk of flooding and erosion, according to the Hamilton Conservation Authority.

A police officer breaking down barriers, an immigrant working to make Canada more welcoming for newcomers and a student finding new ways to address gender-based violence are among the 2021 Women Who Rock.

Tickets to the108th Grey Cup, set for Hamilton's Tim Hortons Field, go on sale today.

Yosif Al-Hasnawi's mother says in a statement read at the sentencing of two Hamilton paramedics that the 19-year-old's death "feels like someone has ripped your heart out of your chest." The hearing for the men, found guilty of failing to give proper care to Al-Hasnawi after he was shot in 2017, continues Tuesday.

A special weather statement has been issued for Hamilton and the surrounding area with up to 50 millimetres of rain expected throughout the day.

Fifteen people are unable to return home and one man is in hospital after a fire at a Corktown apartment building early Monday morning.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating the arrest of a woman by Hamilton police.

A two-day sentencing hearing is underway for two paramedics found guilty for failing to provide the necessaries of life to Josif Al-Hasnawi of Hamilton in 2017. The 19-year-old died in hospital after being shot outside a mosque.

Whether it's a relationship you lost or the death of someone close to you, grief during the COVID-19 pandemic can be tricky to navigate, and has left many feeling lost in an emotional limbo.

After filling in the gaps for personal support worker agencies in Hamilton during the worst of the pandemic, Jane, a failed refugee claimant from Uganda, was eager to learn about the federal government’s pathway to permanent residence for healthcare workers.

Jeremiah Masoli threw two second-half TD passes as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated Ottawa 32-3 on Saturday to eliminate the Redblacks from playoff contention.

Fall is in full swing across Canada. Here's a selection of fall foliage that CBC photographers, video producers and others have captured in recent days.

The First Nation's elected council shared a media release on Friday stating Ohsweken Public Health had confirmed another member who tested positive for the virus had died.

The clinic is open on Tuesdays from 10 p.m. to midnight in the YWCA located at 75 MacNab St. S.

Niagara regional council, acting on a code of conduct investigation, has voted to dock the pay of the mayor of West Lincoln, Ont., six months after he asked a woman in a private Facebook message if the COVID-19 vaccine changed her menstrual cycle.

Hamilton police are warning the public of a man in an SUV-style vehicle after two reports on Wednesday.

A COVID-19 treatment newly available in Hamilton has doctors underscoring the importance of early testing for people who show symptoms.

The Hamilton Community Legal Clinic wants an injunction that would largely prevent the city from tearing down encampments around the city. The city wants to keep enforcing its bylaw prohibiting tents in public areas.

The Ontario government will allow businesses such as restaurants, bars and fitness centres to start lifting COVID-19 capacity limits starting Monday, and plans to lift all remaining public health measures including proof of vaccination and mask requirements indoors by March 2022, according to provincial officials.

Logan Staats and Skyler Williams, two Haudenosaunee men from Ontario's Six Nations of the Grand River, spent 10 days in B.C. to stand in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en Nation members protesting the Coastal GasLink pipeline. They plan to return in November.

Halton police has charged a Waterdown man for playing the flute while driving in Burlington, Ont.

The path to becoming the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' leading receiver has certainly been a long one for Jaelon Acklin.

Ontario Provincial Police says it is investigating animal cruelty in Haldimand County after finding nearly 40 calves, two piglets and a turkey abandoned and in critical condition.

With training underway, the search for unmarked graves at the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., is close to starting. The group leading the search efforts say it will take over a year to cover the roughly 200 hectares of land.

A jury has found a Hamilton man guilty of second-degree murder for shooting his girlfriend 10 times during an argument outside their home in 2017.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has charged Const. Michael LaCombe, an 18-year member of the local police service, with two counts of sexual assault.

Hamilton’s board of health voiced support for a bid by The AIDS Network to get a second safe consumption site, but one local hospital official says the city needs to establish a strategy specific to the opioid crisis.

Racalmuto, Italy’s annual Festa Maria SS. Del Monte has continued for 500 years, and is mirrored by an event in Hamilton featured this week in the Art Gallery of Hamilton Film Festival.

Hamilton’s public school board has unveiled dress code guidelines just a day after trustees voted to remove “sexist and outdated” standards in how it enforces what students wear.

Ontario Provincial Police in Haldimand County says it is investigating an act of animal cruelty involving abandoned kittens.

Hamilton’s public school board trustees unanimously passed a motion during a Monday board meeting to revise its dress code by removing “sexist and outdated standards.”

A driver has been charged after provincial police say they were spotted using what appears to be a piece of cardboard with handwritten letters and numbers as a licence plate.

A new network at McMaster University, launching formally during Latin American Heritage Month, is out to centre Black and Indigenous content in the field of study, while celebrating and supporting Latin American students in Hamilton.

Emergency crews were called to Coreslab Structures, a precast concrete producer, just before 6:25 p.m. on Monday after reports of an industrial accident, according to police.

The eastbound lanes of the highway were closed near Aberdeen Avenue for much of Monday afternoon and evening, funnelling traffic into nearby streets.

The city wants to enforce its camping bylaw by dismantling tents. The local legal clinic wants the city to allow them.

A community group against a proposed warehouse development near the Grand River in Cambridge, Ont., is urging city council to halt the project after learning members of Six Nations of the Grand River may not have been properly consulted, according to documents obtained by CBC News.

Family members of Brock Beck, the son of former NHL player Barry Beck, sobbed in the gallery of a Hamilton courtroom Monday as the man who fatally stabbed the 20-year-old in a Binbrook road rage incident was sentenced to five years in prison.

Every summer, children forget some of what they learned during the previous school year, but now experts are warning that because of school closures and other disruptions during the pandemic, students will have a lot more lost learning to make up for.