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Holes in walls, gaps in floorboards, clogged vents and bedbug infestations are just some of the issues residents at Rebecca Towers say they've endured without any support from management.

As we approach Canada’s 154th birthday, many are asking what will Canada Day look like this year.

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton has unveiled YouThrive, a new mobile mental health program catering to BIPOC youth.

Ontario's new long-term care minister Rod Phillips apologized Tuesday for a provincial pandemic response that saw the deaths of nearly 4,000 long-term care residents with COVID-19. Phillips acknowledged his own government "failed" residents, their families and staff members.

Video shows someone cutting down the whole flagpole at a high school in Delhi.

Hamilton's medical officer of health says someone in Hamilton died after getting COVID-19, even with two doses of vaccine.

The city of Hamilton has issued a heat alert and the city is warning people to reduce the risk of heat-related illness by taking precautions.

Bylaw officers have ticketed Hamilton bar Cause and Effect for a third time for breaking COVID-19 regulations.

Provincial police say a female pedestrian is dead after being hit by a vehicle on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) in Burlington, but they still don't know who she is.

Ontario reported another 210 cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the fewest on a single day since mid-September, as all adults in the province who got a first shot of an mRNA vaccine were able to try to book an appointment for an accelerated second dose.

Researchers at McMaster University and Rapid Dose Therapeutics — a biotechnology firm in Burlington, Ont. — are investigating the possible delivery of vaccines via a thin strip “that would dissolve in your mouth.”

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement advising residents that very warm and humid conditions are expected in Hamilton through Monday.

Hamilton Public Health Services is reporting 10 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday.

Homicide detectives have been notified after a woman died in St. Catharines on Saturday morning.

When Jenn Schooley works in the orchard of her family farm, surrounded by dwarf fruit trees and bright, fragrant fields of lavender — her mother's "field of dreams" — she knows it's where she belongs.

Residential schools "did atrocities that no child should ever have to experience in their lifetime," said director of Woodland Cultural Centre that now occupies site of former Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ont.

Homebuyers are using emotional pleas to beat out bully offers, out-of-towners and developers with deep pockets.

The federal and provincial governments are giving Hamilton $7.43M for five local infrastructure projects.

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As lock down restrictions slowly lift in Ontario, Summer 2021 is becoming something to look forward to more each day.

A St. Catharines man faces hoax terrorism and uttering threats charges after RCMP say staff at a government office in Ottawa opened a letter that said "You've Been Anthraxed."

The City of Burlington wants to turn Robert Bateman High School into a combined Brock University campus and Burlington Public Library branch.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has been called in after a man Niagara police had been negotiating with died.

Provincial police are investigating after someone set off fireworks in the front lawn of a Port Dover home, causing a fire and damaging some siding.

Owners of gyms and indoor restaurants are frustrated and desperate because they're not allowed to reopen next week, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says.

The executive director at the Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto says the discovery of 751 unmarked graves in Saskatchewan has to be a wake-up call, and that Canada must start giving all Indigenous peoples meaningful respect.

The Hamilton police service will keep its $2.1 million surplus after little discussion at its oversight board meeting on Thursday.

When the library board voted in April to permanently eliminate fees and fines, it joined a worldwide movement of library systems that have done so.

Three people face various charges, Niagara police say, after alleged fraud at the District School Board of Niagara (DSBN) resulted in a loss of over $2.1 million.

The owner of Wylde Rose Soaps joined Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath in calling for a better process in getting applications in for small business grants.

Brantford and provincial police have charged seven people with first-degree murder following a joint investigation into two homicides in the city that happened in July 2019.

A bulldozed community and 1960s home to workers and immigrants in Hamilton will be honoured through the naming of Brightside Park.

Hamilton police says it is investigating an armed robbery at a Stoney Creek pharmacy.

For the first time since October 3 last year, Hamilton has its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases.

A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Hamilton has been uncovered after spending three days under a piece of black fabric.

The driver was heading south on Highway 6 before his truck sideswiped another vehicle and crashed into a house.

Police were expecting $1.6 million surplus but say COVID-19 relief funding bumped it up.

Hamilton police have released images of two suspects from the city's seventh homicide of the year.

A Hamilton Police Service (HPS) use of force report shows officers drew their handguns and pointed firearms more often in 2020 than they did in 2019. And so did the people they apprehended.

A juvenile Nile monitor lizard is lost from Little Rays Reptile Zoo and Nature Centre in Hamilton.

Hamilton firefighters rescued someone at Tew's Falls just before 1 p.m. on Sunday.

The portion of the pass between the Sherman Cut and Kenilworth Access has been shut down as of 8 a.m. The closure is expected to end around 4 p.m., weather permitting.

Four trains will travel from the hub in Toronto each Saturday, Sunday and holiday Monday, stopping at Exhibition, Port Credit, Oakville, Burlington, Aldershot and St. Catharines along the way.

Fire crews were called to 824 Upper Ottawa, near Mohawk Road, around 3:18 p.m. and found "heavy smoke" and a "well-involved fire" in a garage attached to a one-storey home, says fire chief Dave Cunliffe.

A national parole board panel hearing the impassioned pleas of Paul Bernardo's victims has turned down a request for release by the convicted Ontario killer and serial rapist. One mother says her pain is a "life sentence."

A mother staying in a Hamilton shelter with her five young children says it took about two months before she was moved out of a cockroach-infested unit at Martha House.

The CEBL's third season tips off Thursday, with the Ottawa BlackJacks hosting the Niagara River Lions. Of 114 players in training camps, just 20 have been with the league from the start. Another 31 are entering their second season. That means 63 new players will step on Canadian courts this summer.

Brantford police are looking for a white Chevrolet Silverado Z71 with a black truck bed tool box after a Pride crosswalk was vandalized.

Maureen Cosyn Heath has been named as the new head of the Hamilton Street Railway. The new role follows years with the Southwestern Ontario Student Transportation Services and a decade at the London Transit Commission.

Hamilton's medical officer of health says public health is reserving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for youth aged 12 to 17 and says most people getting a shot this week can expect a Moderna dose.