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Hamilton police are investigating the city’s fourth homicide of 2021.

Two suspects wanted in connection with a homicide and attempted murder in Stoney Creek last month have fled the country, Hamilton police say.

Halifax's iconic Theodore Tugboat is moving to a new home. Theodore Too, Nova Scotia's life-sized TV replica tugboat, will soon start a new chapter promoting marine careers while based out of Hamilton, Ont.

A Hamilton city councillor absent from council meetings since December has announced that he's taking sick leave.

Some businesses still aren't allowed to open in Ontario, closed now for over a year, due to increased risk of spreading COVID-19.

A BC woman, who has been in Niagara Region since February 2020, has been unable to make an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine because she has no coverage under Ontario’s health-care plan, OHIP.

An HHS memo sent to staff Wednesday says the system will no longer accept out-of-region COVID-19 patients until “hospital capacity pressures subside… These referrals are now being redirected to other hospital facilities with available capacity.”

Police are investigating the cause of the death and the fire.

The SIU says the investigation into the July 2020 incident at the plaza and Cannon Street East and Gage Avenue North found the man fired a shotgun before he was shot by police.

Police say a man was stabbed and his spouse was knocked over on Monday night.

The Crown says two former Hamilton paramedics robbed a teenage gunshot victim of his chance to survive. The defence argues mistakes were made, but the pair aren't criminally responsible.

Const. Krista-Lee Ernst says officers responded to a call near Barton Street East and Parkdale Street North shortly after 11 p.m.

A Hamilton bar has been charged with four counts of violating COVID-19 regulations under the Reopening Ontario Act, including masking violations and failing to record customers' contact information.

Farmers in Haldimand-Norfolk took their tractors to area roadways Tuesday to protest COVID-19 rules designed to protect migrant workers, which they fear will severely impact the 2021 growing season.

Eager readers can’t go inside the big blue bus and browse like they used to, but for loyal Bookmobile clients, it’s still better than the dark days of last spring and summer when the roving reading room was removed from the road.

Niagara police say they have found the body of Maria Jagiello, a Welland woman who had been missing since late February.

The defence argues that while the paramedics' actions can be criticized, they aren't enough to criminally charge them in connection with the death of teen Yosif Al-Hasnawi.

New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says he does not agree with accusations that Quebecers are racist, after one of his Hamilton MPs applauded controversial remarks on the subject by a University of Ottawa professor.

Hamilton Public Health Services is reporting 80 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death linked to the virus. The number of confirmed cases over the course of the pandemic has now crossed the 12,000 mark.

Members of Hamilton Theatre Inc have created a compilation video to celebrate life, remember those who have died after contracting COVID-19, and spread hope for the days still to come.

One Hamilton public health nurse has been dismissed, and two others disciplined but still employed, after seven people were vaccinated for COVID-19 vaccine who shouldn't have been.

Hamilton is beefing up its property standards bylaw so that landlords are responsible for more health and safety issues of their rental properties.

There were 14 new cases of COVID-19 reported by Hamilton’s public school board on Monday; all except one case was a student.

Hamilton police are investigating after a Waterdown man was stabbed while on a walk in a neighbourhood with his spouse.

A 47-year-old man has died following a collision Monday evening, becoming Hamilton’s first cyclist traffic fatality for the year, police say.

Some doctors and nurses say there should be community representatives on the board, not just councillors.

Ohsweken Public Health has reported its first two COVID-19 variants of concern at Six Nations of the Grand River.

Hamilton police on Monday renewed their appeal for the public’s assistance, 10 years after Hlias Kotsopoulos was struck and killed while walking with his wife.

An uptick in the number of daily new COVID-19 cases in Hamilton is being closely monitored by health authorities. The city is reporting 93 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday.

Hamilton councillors have voted to spend $680,000 to install metal bollards around city hall to protect people from vehicle attacks.

Working from home without a good workstation is leading to more spinal pain, say experts. Chiropractor Ashor Sworesho, of Hamilton Chiropractic and Wellness and Kim Jory, fitness manager at Goodlife Fitness's Bunting Road location in St. Catharines have some tips on how to work and study safely from home.

An epidemiologist with Hamilton's public health services says the city is reaching numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and outbreaks quicker than it has before.

Norfolk area farmers say they will be taking tractors to area roadways this Tuesday in protest over COVID-19 regulations, which they say could have dire consequences for the 2021 growing season.

Sunday saw the most cases: there were 25 total reports in the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board database, with all but one being students.

Starting on Monday, Dr. J. E. Davey Elementary School will shut down in person classes for a week.

Hamilton restaurants can host up to 50 guests inside after Ontario increases indoor dining limits.

A Brock University senate advisory committee is calling on the school to file a complaint over alleged online harassment directed at acting vice-provost of Indigenous engagement Robyn Bourgeois.

The property development arm of the United Church of Canada has taken on the affordable housing project planned for the site of Hamilton’s St. Giles Church.

McMaster University researchers estimate that around three in every five Canadian adults aged 45 to 85 were exposed to harmful experiences during their childhood, such as abuse.

While daily capacity will depend on vaccine supply allotted to Hamilton by the province, city officials say the clinic is a major step toward getting local residents vaccinated on an efficient timeline.

A former Burlington family physician has been arrested for multiple sexual offences, according to Halton Regional Police Service.

The Ontario government’s investment of more than $12 million in a new initiative to detect COVID-19 in wastewater is being hailed as a boost to help researchers deliver early warnings to municipalities before a spike in new cases occurs.

A trial date has been set for the teenager charged in the killing of Devan Selvey outside a Hamilton high school.

Marsha Rempel, the fifth generation to live on her family's farm, is relieved the city is backtracking on its decision to expropriate the land, after saying it was needed for an industrial park.

Another outbreak at Hamilton General Hospital is among four new ones being declared by the city as of Thursday.

A coalition of health-care advocates and union groups is calling on the Ontario Human Rights Commission to conduct an inquiry into “systemic discrimination based on age against the elderly in the provision of hospital and long-term care,” citing already-dire conditions that have been made significantly worse by the pandemic.

Ontario police say they have dismantled four separate drug and weapons cartels with ties to biker gangs operating in multiple cities across the southwestern part of the province.

The Ontario premier’s office remains silent about a promised conversation between Doug Ford and MPP Sam Oosterhoff, who was the featured speaker at an anti-abortion event Wednesday night where an organizer compared abortions to the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jewish people were murdered by Nazis.

A 53-year-old Burlington man has been charged with luring a child and other offences, police say, after a teenage boy told police he was sexually assaulted.

Youth admitted for medical support after suicide attempt tripled over four-month period, McMaster Children’s Hospital says.