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Canada hosted the U.S. in a World Cup qualifying match Sunday in Hamilton. The forecast for game at Tim Hortons Field calls for -4 C, feeling like -9.

Cyle Larin shot his way into the record book and Canada continued its march towards Qatar 2022 with a 2-0 win over the U.S. in CONCACAF World Cup qualifying play Sunday.

The ownership of the beach canal lighthouse will be transferred to the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority from the federal government, CEO Ian Hamilton announced Friday.

Ontario reported 3,019 hospitalizations as a result of COVID-19 on Sunday, with 587 people in intensive care units across the province.

There is a buoyancy to this Canadian team, an irresistible uprush of good feeling, going into Sunday's CONCACAF qualifier against the U.S. in Hamilton.

The move offers relief for those struggling with online classes and families who were driving for hours and paying to stay in hotel rooms so their children could learn in-person. But it comes with increased COVID-19 measures and a designation as a high-risk congregate setting.

Joyce Leung is using cooking classes to help people connect to Asian culture. Her Saturday class focuses on dumplings, ahead of Lunar New Year.

Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for Hamilton and the surrounding area with the wind chill expected to make it feel as cold as –35 C on Friday.

The city now says plywood it erected to block homeless people from hot air vents behind Hamilton City Hall was set up without a necessary building permit and using the wrong material. It has now been replace with more 'fire-resistant' material, it says.

The 37-year-old Hamilton man is facing two counts of arson causing damage to property and one count of arson with disregard for human life, according to investigators.

A hospital network in Hamilton has fired 138 workers because they refused to get fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Hamilton continues to be a city of choice for newcomers to Canada, as well as Canadians leaving bigger cities like Toronto, new data from Statistics Canada shows.

The Survivors' Secretariat at Six Nations is working to create a community archive that outlines the full history of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, but says the Archives of Ontario are being dismissive.

A vaccine collaboration between McMaster University in Hamilton and a former Chinese partner stalled years ago and they are now independently racing to develop similar COVID-19 boosters, The Fifth Estate has found.

Some parents are spending hours on the road and thousands to stay in hotels to get their children to in-person classes at Ontario's only English-language school for blind, visually impaired and deaf-blind students. The alternative is online learning, something they say presents challenges.

CBC Sports' daily newsletter fills you in on what to know for Canada's next three World Cup qualifying matches, which will be played without Alphonso Davies.

Three World Cup qualifying games against three opponents in three countries over seven days will be the ultimate test of Canada coach John Herdman's managerial mettle, as well as the team's depth.

Life in Hamilton will feel a bit more normal next week as Ontario loosens some pandemic restrictions.

A Toronto non-profit has partnered with the federal Ministry of Natural resources to create a fund to make it easier for municipalities and agencies to build electric vehicle charging stations.

Unlocking the mysteries behind Omicron's unique set of mutations will be key to understanding how this virus evolves and spreads — particularly as a tougher-to-detect subvariant called BA.2 is taking off in various countries.

Demolishing an existing building, throwing it away in a landfill, is a staggering act of conspicuous consumption, writes Sarah Sheehan.

When Canada kicks off the women's hockey tournament at the Beijing Olympics on Feb. 2 against Switzerland, many hockey fans say they'll be soaking up the rare chance to watch televised coverage of top-tier women players.

As the debate heats up over what's behind the images of empty grocery store shelves in parts of Canada, the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers says the supply issues began long before the Canada-U.S. cross-border vaccine mandates.

Medical officer of health Dr. Elizabeth Richardson said Monday that the city is seeing early indicators that it’s reaching a plateau in the surge of Omicron cases.

A falcon who made downtown Hamilton her home for the past seven years died on Sunday evening.

The money will support three projects aimed at providing units for women and children, transgender and non-binary people and Black and Indigenous residents.

Several Hamilton residents say that sidewalks in their areas still haven’t been cleared a week after a blizzard blanketed the city with snow.

Halton police say a 58-year-old Burlington woman is facing charges after a protest at Mapleview Mall in December where a security guard was assaulted.

The group overseeing the search for unmarked graves at the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., says the just over $10.2 million from Ottawa announced Monday isn't enough to help them do their work.

Environment Canada has issued a winter weather travel advisory for Hamilton for Monday morning through until the evening.

Andrew Hunter's new book is based on an interview Sophia Burthen Pooley gave — the "only known first-person account from somebody who was enslaved in Canada," he says.

One person is dead and two were treated for smoke inhalation after a house fire in Simcoe late Saturday.

As much as 10 centimetres of snow will fall on Hamilton Monday, says Environment Canada. And that could create low visibility and hazardous road conditions.

From British Columbia to Nova Scotia, animal rescue organizations saw a spike in donations this week as people celebrated Betty White’s 100th birthday.

Lincoln Alexander is remembered as Canada's first Black member of Parliament and federal cabinet minister, and Ontario's first Black lieutenant-governor. To those whose lives he touched, Alexander, who would have turned 100 on Jan. 21, he's much more.

A McMaster University researcher with lasting coronavirus symptoms such as brain fog, dizziness and a distorted sense of smell that would lead to headaches is putting her expertise as a respiratory scientist to use to learn more about long-haul COVID-19.

The crowd for Canada's World Cup qualifier against the United States on Jan. 30 will be limited to 12,000 at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton half of capacity.

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health sent a letter to Niagara’s top doctor saying the regional health unit's stringent measures in schools could “lead to increased harms to the children and youth.” Dr. Mustafa Hirji says the region is still going ahead with its plans.

A park in Burlington, Ont., previously named after one of the architects of the residential school system, has been renamed to Sweetgrass Park.

Hamilton schools have reopened but they are still waiting on extra HEPA filter units from the province to try and make in-person learning safer.

Ontario will begin easing COVID-19 public health restrictions at the end of January, the government said Thursday, with a plan to lift most remaining measures by mid-March.

The academic and social impacts of the pandemic on children may be felt for decades, says Dr. Khrista Boylan, a Hamilton-based child and adolescent psychiatrist who supports the return to in-person learning.

An inquest will be held into the death of the 19-year-old, who was fatally shot during an interaction with the Hamilton Police Service after making several distraught 911 calls.

Council has approved plans to set up a roundtable discussion that will bring together experts, front-line workers and people who have been homeless, with the goal of finding gaps in service and ending encampments in Hamilton.

Two men sentenced Tuesday for failing to provide the necessaries of life to a Hamilton teen while they were paramedics are appealing their convictions in the unprecedented case.

The CEO of Hamilton's Chamber of Commerce is stepping down to run for mayor in the upcoming municipal election.

The temperature is expected to creep above freezing in Hamilton Wednesday, bringing with it a risk of rain, after the city was walloped by snow just days ago.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats re-signed American receiver/kick-returner Papi White on Tuesday.

The lawyer for the Hamilton senior arrested after a Wet'suwet'en solidarity rally in November says Crown prosecutors have agreed to withdraw the charge against him at his next court appearance Jan. 27.

As many Hamilton students return to in-person learning Wednesday, the city’s public health department is reporting that only 10 per cent of children between the ages of five and 11 have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.