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Hamilton city councillors are holding off on making a decision about allowing e-scooter rental companies in the city to seek more input from groups, including those advocating for people with disabilities.

Hamilton public health says the number of callers trying to book COVID-19 vaccination appointments Monday overwhelmed its hotline and wait list, causing it to automatically hang up on people.

The region reports 3,019 workers from 171 farms in the area were given their first dose at the Seymour Hannah Centre's clinic during the weekend of April 23 and 24. That's on top of the 315 who were previously vaccinated during a pilot clinic.

The downtown McMaster University site at 100 Main St. W. will offer shots of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine by appointment only between May 6 and 13.

Investigators say a 71-year-old woman was crossing the street Saturday afternoon when she was struck by a 57-year-old woman driving a Dodge Charger west on Main Street East.

A new study shows Canada's current policies on Indigenous communities are hurting their democracy and having the power to implement things like online voting could make a big impact.

Adults who live in Hamilton hot spots will be eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission says it will be in Pride Hamilton's corner for its tribunal complaint against the city and local police after violence broke out at the 2019 Pride festival.

The City of Brantford has said it will resume selling the Arrowdale golf course lands. But a call for halting development in the Haldimand Tract raises puts the sale in question.

A message in a bottle has connected two families more than four years after it was thrown into Lake Huron as an act of faith and a final goodbye.

Shandelle Carrigan and Jason Poulton share what it was like to find the bottle, while Brandon Walli's sister Robyn and his dad, Tom, talk about what it means to them.

Members of Hamilton Police Major Crime Unit canvassed for witnesses and video on Friday as they continue to investigate the city's seventh homicide.

Hamilton Health Sciences reported 181 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death linked to the virus on Friday.

Live at noon on Tuesday Hamilton Live talks with Dr. Christopher Sulowski Interim Chief of the Pediatric Emergency Department at McMaster Children’s Hospital about how COVID-19 is affecting children, why it's still safe to go to emergency and more. Send us your comments and questions.

From euphoria to guilt, a Hamilton couple is pushing the provincial and municipal governments to fix their problem of unclear communication of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, saying cancer patients are being left behind.

Former Canadian international David Edgar, who retired as a Forge FC player in December, has joined the Canadian Premier League team's staff as an assistant coach.

Hamilton native Kimberly Polman is among former ISIS brides featured in The Return: Life After ISIS by Alba Sotorra Clua, who hopes the new documentary — among featured films in the Hoc Docs Festival — will give insight into the issues surrounding repatriation.

Ontario Today talks about the future of the province's long-term care homes on Friday's extended show.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning strong, northwesterly winds are expected to blow through Hamilton and the surrounding area throughout the day.

At least three workplaces with outbreaks in Hamilton and the surrounding area are winding down or halting operations because of COVID-19 outbreaks.

Canadian military health-care and other personnel will start helping Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre's field hospital and ICU in Toronto starting Friday, part of its deployment to Ontario hospitals strained under COVID-19 caseloads. Talks are ongoing about Hamilton's and other hospitals' needs.

The previous artistic director's retirement came amidst criticism of Theatre Aquarius's lack of diversity. Now award-winning Mary Francis Moore will fill the role in July.

A total of 200 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 as Hamilton recorded an additional 154 cases on Thursday.

For the second consecutive year, the Karaoke World Championships will be held online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it hasn't dampened the buzz as singers set their sights on the big event.

Ontario Today wants your reaction to Ontario's new paid sick leave plan on Thursday's show.

A 38-year-old man is dead after police say he was shot in alleyway on Wednesday night.

The city says if Kryptonian Ink doesn't comply, it may face harsher measures.

Hamilton has resumed its quest to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games a century after the first edition was held in that city, and abandoned a bid for 2026.

Hamilton's city council is expanding the sidewalk snow-clearing program to include 783 kilometres more along transit routes after winter storms.

The hospital has readied two beds in its Women's Health ICU and other ward beds have been also been prepared, according to Dr. Christopher Sulowski, interim medical director of the pediatric emergency department.

There are another 230 new cases in Hamilton as of Wednesday, and four more people have died.

Hamilton police have identified Moui Khuu and Hung Vo as the husband and wife fatally stabbed in a downtown apartment on Monday. The couple's son, Phuoc Hoa Vo, faces two counts of second-degree murder.

Ontario Today opens lines with child and youth psychiatrist Dr. Rachel Mitchell on Wednesday's show.

Hamilton police say a man in his mid-20s has been taken to hospital after crashing into trees on Mill Street in Waterdown.

Hamilton's public school is naming a new east-end school after Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond.

With an overheating Ontario housing market, "bad things are happening," says one agent. But those bad things are hard to prove.

Six Nations Elected Chief Mark Hill has indicated support for a call to halt development in the Haldimand Tract.

A deputy chief coroner's review in response to the deaths of three Mexican farm workers in Ontario calls for better oversight of living conditions and improved access to health care for temporary agricultural workers.

Det.-Sgt. Peter Thom says neighbours were "traumatized" by the stabbing that left a couple dead and their daughters are "devastated."

People aged 40 and over who live in five "hot spot" communities in Hamilton are now eligible to get vaccinated.

A Niagara gas station has removed a discount it was offering to vaccinated customers after backlash from community members.

The federal government is considering sending extra people — such as members of the Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Red Cross and other groups — to help at field hospitals at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS).

A 34-year-old man is in critical condition and will be charged with second-degree murder after what Hamilton police say was a "family dispute" where he allegedly stabbed and killed his parents.

Meet Lewis Mallard, the six-foot-tall duck who has been quacking up Hamiltonians with his antics.

A seven-vehicle crash closed Highway 403 near Middle Townline Road in Brant County on Monday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say. Then, there was another crash nearby.

Ontario Today focuses on family pandemic struggles on Tuesday's extended show.

More than 200 people in Niagara have volunteered to help people get vaccinated against COVID-19. Here's one of them.

One person is dead after provincial police say an excavator hit a road sign on the QEW in Hamilton, causing it to fall and crush a passing vehicle.

After an uptick in cases over the past week, Hamilton's COVID-19 data appears to show the virus' spread is slowing, but the city's director of epidemiology says it's too early to say we've reached the third wave's peak.

The chief of emergency services at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) says he fears there will not be enough room for COVID-19 patients if the virus continues to uncontrollably spread in the next few weeks.