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Five duffle bags stuffed with more than 100 kilograms of suspected cocaine were seized from a commercial truck that crossed into Canada at Fort Erie last month, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

Data on the City of Hamilton's website tracking COVID-19 cases and other virus-related statistics showed 15 new cases and –1 death.

Elected officials in St. Catharines, Ont., and more than 100 Catholic educators and school staff in Niagara call on Pope Francis to apologize after unmarked graves were detected at former residential school sites in B.C. and Saskatchewan.

Ontario Provincial Police say it will cost roughly $1.4 million to repair the damage from a large barn fire in Haldimand County.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Burlington, Brant county, Hamilton, Haldimand and Norfolk counties, and Niagara as it expects between 30 and 50 mm of rain to drench the areas on Thursday.

The medical officer of health in Ontario's Niagara region says he wants the U.S.-Canada border to stay closed until the fall, even as local business leaders and politicians call for the opposite to support the area's tourism-reliant economy.

Owners and operators of high-rise apartment and condominium buildings in Hamilton will now be required to follow certain cleanliness measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

A team of researchers from McMaster University has mapped out how certain COVID-19 vaccines can trigger a rare but sometimes fatal blood clotting reaction in some recipients.

The City of Hamilton’s public works committee has deferred a request to sell a piece of North End land that hosts a community-built pollinator garden to Friday’s city council meeting.

Woodbine CEO Jim Lawson was named for induction into the Burlington Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday.

Horrific living conditions including a rodent infestation, food contamination and issues with mould have prompted public health officials to close a private group home serving seniors in St. Thomas, Ont.

An attempted abduction of a 20 year-old female in Niagara Falls on June 27 is currently being investigated by the Niagara Regional Police, Human Trafficking Unit.

Hamilton residents still seeking their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine won't have to book an appointment starting tomorrow. Instead, they can just walk in and get a shot.

The City of Hamilton is looking to use drones to enforce a bylaw that if approved would prohibit off-road vehicles on private property without permission, and on highways and public lands.

Firefighters from Haldimand, Norfolk and Six Nations are battling a large barn fire, police say.

Thanks to rising vaccination rates, many Canadians have never been more protected against COVID-19. Thanks to the rise of the delta variant, others have never been more at risk. So how do we all navigate this tenuous stretch ahead?

Individuals facing food insecurity in St. Catharines, Ont., have a new opportunity to “take what they need” from a community fridge.

City councillors will wait a couple months to decide on a proposal aiming to turn an 1883 Ancaster farmhouse into a four-storey apartment building. The ward's councillor is in support of the project despite opposition from neighbours.

A former public school teacher and baseball coach in Hamilton who formerly worked with the Toronto Blue Jays' youth academy now faces two sexual assault charges, on top of charges announced previously in another case.

While vaccination rates among residents are high, as 96 per cent have both doses, the numbers are significantly lower among staff.

Niagara police say the Welland man’s SUV was passing another vehicle on Canborough Road when he collided with a pickup truck heading in the opposite direction.

Niagara Region Public Health says six people received an injection of saline instead of the COVID-19 vaccine at its Port Colborne, Ont., clinic.

Police in Six Nations of the Grand River are investigating what they say was an arson attempt at a local church.

Hamilton hospitals say the pandemic put roughly 11,300 surgeries on hold and officials say the backlog may take years to clear.

At peak points of the pandemic, the city was completing roughly 1,300 swabs each day across all of its centres. But the average number of tests carried out in Hamilton over the past week has dropped to 286.

The City of Hamilton will explore a bylaw on taxing vacant homes in the efforts to increase the amount of rental properties available.

Mike VanNetten, a 45-year-old farmer from Ontario's Norfolk County who's known around town as Chicken, is back home after spending more than two months in hospital battling COVID-19.

Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is taking down its field hospital, put in place as part of COVID-19 preparedness, after never getting a single chance to use it.

A St. Catharines man is charged with attempted murder following a stabbing and standoff with police that shut down the QEW on Sunday night.

Ontarians aged 12 to 17 became eligible to book an accelerated second dose of COVID-19 vaccine Monday, as Premier Doug Ford said he will maintain a wage increase for personal support workers introduced during the pandemic.

A heat warning has been issued for Hamilton and the surrounding area with daytime temperatures of 31 to 34 C forecast for Monday. Environment Canada warns humidex values near 40 are also expected.

Jessica Compton was only eight years old growing up in North Bay, Ont., when a man broke into her home at 2 a.m., took her out of bed, brought her to his car and sexually assaulted her. Now an education worker in Hamilton, she's come a long way.

The city's medical officer of health has issued a heat warning for the city that starts on Monday in advance of hot and humid conditions.

Dr. Dominik Mertz, HHS medical director of infection prevention control, said the city is headed to seeing no new cases soon, but said another uptick could come.

The condo collapse in Florida, that killed at least 24 and from which 121 people are still missing, is unlikely to happen in Hamilton, according to local experts. One expert also says the province should review its building code.

Ontario's ministry of the environment wants Hamilton to implement all recommendations from a recent report about Chedoke Creek.

Ontario reported 213 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, up from 209 on Saturday. The province is reporting an additional nine deaths.

A 26-year-old from Norfolk County is facing impaired driving and other charges after trying to avoid roadside spot check by local police.

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A long term care home in Burlington is dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that involves the delta variant of concern and that has resulted in 17 active cases as of Saturday.

Hamilton city councillor Nrinder Nann (Ward 3) will introduce a motion for the removal of the statue of Canada's first prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald from the city’s Gore Park.

A year-long occupation by Six Nations land defenders has forced the cancellation of a major housing project in Caledonia, Ont., the developer said Friday.

The province resumed in-car driving tests in June, but the backlog to book a road test is staggering.

Dozens of handprints have been painted on a sidewalk in Hamilton in support of Indigenous communities across Canada following the recent discoveries of unmarked graves at residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

Once dubbed "Canada's Most Patriotic Town," Thorold is among cities that won't hold any municipally-run Canada Day events this year. Neither will St. Catharines.

Redeemer University, a private, Reformed Christian school in Hamilton that's been criticized for its stand on homosexual relationships, has won a court challenge of the federal government's refusal to provide the school a summer jobs grant.

The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Hamilton was covered in red paint again, but quickly washed off by mid-morning.

The Ontario Provincial Police say a 65-year-old man has been killed in a head-on crash involving a transport truck on Highway 403 in Ancaster.

This final report comes after four years of sewage and stormwater leaked into Chedoke Creek - the equivalent of 24 billion litres.