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Protestors tried — and failed — to place Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward under a citizen’s arrest on Friday afternoon after police said there were no grounds for criminal action against her.

Ottawa police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing nine-month-old baby, believed to be with her mother.

The chair of Hamilton's public school board supports asymptomatic testing in Hamilton schools as the number of COVID-19 cases in local students and staff continue to rise.

The province has released a list of 17 more hospitals that will received the vaccine over the next two weeks, including Halton Healthcare and Hamilton Health Sciences.

Police say a 33-year-old worker was transported to hospital Thursday and later died.

Hamilton-area hospitals are backing an Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) call for a 28-day lockdown in the province's red zones amid record-high case counts and hospitalizations.

Laurie Pringle left a package full of cat litter in front of her Hamilton home for a recurring thief. The porch pirate took the bait.

Hamilton police have charged a 34-year-old man with aggravated assault after they say he slashed a man’s face with a large knife.

A trailer manufacturer in Hamilton has been fined $150,000 after a worker was electrocuted in its factory parking lot last year.

The mayor of Burlington says she is taking precautions prior to a protest planned for Friday, in which members of an anti-mask group claim they are attempting to place her under "citizen arrest."

Local hospital networks in and around Hamilton — including Burlington, Niagara region and Haldimand County — are now taking a regional approach and are ready to pool resources and bed space in case they see an influx of patients. They are also moving patients to the satellite hospital in Hamilton.

Hamilton's police chief, Eric Girt, is retiring as of February 2021.

Starting on Jan. 28, 2014, a gate partially opened on an underground tank at Main and King streets. The city didn't notice it until 2018. By the time it fixed the issue, 24 billion litres had escaped into Chedoke Creek.

Hamilton public health is reporting 162 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths on Thursday.

Hamilton Health Sciences is temporarily taking over operation of the home following a "voluntary management agreement" approved by Ontario's Ministry of Long-Term Care.

Ten students and one staff member in Hamilton have tested positive for COVID-19, the third double-digit day for school-related infections in the city. The province also said families and school boards should be prepared in case they begin January classes fully remote.

Hamilton police are looking for two suspects and have identified the city’s 17th homicide victim after a reported stabbing on Sunday.

While COVID-19 rages, the Ontario tribunal that hears complaints and considers measures like eviction is conducting its business online, which poses technological challenges for local tenants without internet or with limited phone minutes.

Wednesday was Mato "Mike" Josipovic's last day in custody after spending more than seven years behind bars in connection with the shotgun death of Lou Malone.

The Canadian government will allow seasonal farm workers from Trinidad and Tobago who are stranded in Canada to apply for open work permits so they can access health care and employment insurance while they wait to go home.

An Ontario Provincial Police officer is facing fraud charges after a three-month investigation into the theft of Wayne Gretzky memorabilia from the home of the hockey legend's father, Walter Gretzky, also uncovered an alleged fraud involving a Gretzky hockey stick.

Paul Johnson, the director of the city's emergency operations centre, says if the provincial roll out of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine goes smoothly, health-care workers in Hamilton may get their shots as early as next week.

All three Hamilton firefighters who were dispatched to the area of Sanford Avenue and Main Street East on Dec. 2, 2017, testified in Ontario Superior Court Wednesday that they were ready to help Yosif Al-Hasnawi, a 19-year-old man who had been shot by what paramedics thought was a BB gun but turned out to be a handgun, but were turned away by other first responders.

Hamilton Public Health Services has declared an outbreak at Frank Panabaker North School after two students tested positive for COVID-19.

The county issued a statement Tuesday afternoon and said the member is currently in isolation and recovering.

Snow will fall in Hamilton and Burlington today, according to Environment Canada, causing icy and snow-covered roads — and Hamilton may see snow on Thursday and Saturday too.

A Hamilton city councillor is calling for a judicial review into the city's integrity commissioner, after an investigation into a heated argument the councillor had with a fitness company resulted in him being docked 5 days of pay.

The outbreak at Shalom Village Nursing Home in Hamilton has grown by 24 COVID-19 cases as other outbreaks also continue to see the virus spread.

A joint-investigation involving the RCMP, OPP and Brantford police has recovered game-used hockey sticks, jerseys and a Player-of-the-Year award that belonged to Wayne Gretzky.

More than $10 million from the federal government for rapid housing in Hamilton will be used to build homes for at-risk and Indigenous women as well as seniors within the next 12 months.

join our live interview on Wednesday at noon with Matthew Miller, an associate professor of infectious diseases and immunology at McMaster University in Hamilton. He'll take your questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Hamilton police are searching for a man they say is "armed and dangerous" after an assault on the weekend.

Ontario's medical officer of health says Hamilton may not have to wait long before it gets the COVID-19 vaccine.

Thirteen more students and one more staff member at Hamilton schools have tested positive for COVID-19. Twelve of the cases are at public schools, including three at R.A. Riddell Elementary School.

A teenager who was there the night Yosif Al-Hasnawi was shot said Al-Hasnawi was afraid he was going to die. The teen testified Tuesday in the landmark trial of two former Hamilton paramedics.

The house was "well involved" when crews arrived, according to a tweet from the department that said crews were in a "defensive operation."

Police are investigating after they say a 42-year-old man was stabbed and suffered life-threatening injuries on the Mountain Sunday morning.

The trial of two former Hamilton paramedics who are charged with not properly caring for a teenager the night he was shot and died will go into 2021, says Justice Harrison Arrell.

A social event at an Airbnb rental in Hamilton on King Street East broke six COVID-19 rules, showing "no care whatsoever" about the pandemic and the city's rising case count according to Paul Johnson, director of the emergency operations centre.

The healthcare union representing roughly 184 staff at Grace Villa Nursing Home in Hamilton sent a letter to the federal government pleading it to have the military help workers manage the outbreak, which is the largest and deadliest in the city.

Nearly five years after he was first sentenced for the shotgun death of Lou Malone, John Josipovic again heard the same sentence read out in court — life in prison with no eligibility of parole for 13 years.

Jude Strickland’s father says he’s happy Hamilton city council may make a stretch of Upper Gage Avenue safer, but knows it will never bring back his son.

Hamilton continues to see the number of daily COVID-19 cases rise, with 150 new infections reported on Monday.

Niagara police say two people have been charged under the province's COVID-19 response act after officers found more than 30 people inside one hotel room.

A 61-year-old man has died after a three-vehicle collision early Friday morning in Hagersville.

Two Catholic schools in Hamilton have reported second cases of COVID-19, but administrators say public health officials have yet to determine a link between them, so an outbreak has not been declared.

Anita Quidangen, a personal support worker at the Rekai Centre in Toronto, sat down for her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shortly before 12 p.m. ET.

Five units are experiencing an outbreak at the Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre, where 50 people have been infected with the virus. The new number comes as active cases in Hamilton reach 716.

Five more people in the local public school board and one more student in the Catholic board have tested positive for COVID-19.

Canada's first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Quebec on Sunday night, with more to follow on Monday.