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Canada's Mackenzie Hughes had a chance to shoot the 12th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history, but missed a 40-foot putt for birdie on his 18th hole on Friday.

The city of Hamilton will host a one-hour broadcast special for Canada Day during the COVID-19 pandemic.

CEBL commissioner Mike Morreale confirmed Thursday the league has finalized plans to play a month-long tournament in St. Catharines, Ont., starting July 15.

Hamilton's Catholic school board wants to hear from racialized students, boost anti-racism training and hire an equity officer, but it currently has no plans to follow it's public counterpart by scrapping the police liaison program.

From masks and social bubbles to gatherings and singing in public, a look at some of the inconsistencies and double standards inside the province's COVID-19 rules.

Two summer students will act as "city ambassadors" and enforce bylaws on Hamilton's popular Waterfront Trail this summer — including slowing down speeding cyclists.

Pseudoscientific ideas about racial differences are a "classic" tactic that has been used by white supremacists for centuries, local academics say after racist flyers discouraging interracial marriage were mailed to at least two apartment buildings in Waterloo this week.

A month ago, the daily average of people left standing on the side of the road was 465. Tuesday, the number was 12.

Hamilton city council is asking police to crack down on "yahoos" with extra loud vehicles, a dynamic it says has gotten worse during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Rotary Club of Burlington Lakeshore is planning to celebrate Canada Day with a drive-thru, physically distant Ribfest from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Niagara Regional police have seized thousands of N95 masks and bottles of hand sanitizer that were allegedly purchased during the COVID-19 pandemic using a fraudulent bank draft.

Pride Hamilton has filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario against police, saying they discriminated against the organization by failing to protect participants at last year's Pride celebrations.

The days of video calling loved ones inside hospitals are over as both of Hamilton's hospital networks will begin allowing family and caregivers of patients to visit again as the COVID-19 pandemic slows.

Two men are facing multiple charges after police say roughly $111,000 in drugs and cash were found during a hotel drug bust.

A Mississauga man has lost his vehicle and his licence for seven days, police say, after driving nearly 100 km/h above the posted speed limit on a Burlington road.

The chief of the Brantford Police Service worries the training officers receive is snuffing out any attempts at improving diversity and policing with race and historical context in mind.

More than 100 Hamilton-area family doctors hope to incorporate virtual visits into their practices even after the COVID-19 pandemic according to a new survey.

City bylaw officers are still ticketing people for not keeping a physical distance, says the head of the city's emergency operations centre. But it's getting harder to identify and enforce.

Theatre Aquarius, says one artist, "has never programmed a local BIPOC artist for their main stage in the time that I've been alive."

Hamilton lost almost 46,000 jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic but appear to have fared better than most of the province according to a report from Ontario's financial accountability office.

Brian Melnike's mother is the 16th resident of the Rosslyn to die after contracting COVID-19. He had a chance to say his final goodbyes Monday.

The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) voted to terminate its police liaison program nearly five hours into a meeting Monday night.

Some inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre sent back their trays and announced a hunger strike to protest declining quality of food and called for the resumption of visits and end to rotating lock downs.

Families and a lawyer of some apparent overdose victims say the arrests are a sign of progress but won't be a solution to the larger problem within the justice system.

The city of Hamilton is launching a campaign that uses pictures of dogs, coffee cups, and bikes to explain physical distancing "in a way that resonates" with young adults as new cases increase.

Acclaimed author Lawrence Hill says a Hamilton public school board should scrap its program that sees police in local high schools.

Police are investigating after someone threw a rock from an overpass onto a vehicle traveling down Highway 403 near Burford.

Audrey MacKinnon, of Brantford, won Canada's Junior Chef Showdown.

The city reminds people not to leave children or pets in cars, as the temperatures inside can become life-threatening in minutes.

Police say they've charged a 23-year-old man after a hit-and-run in Niagara Falls that left a woman dead.

Hamilton police are investigating an alleged hit-and-run that saw a vehicle crash into a transformer on the escarpment early Saturday morning.

A migrant worker from a farm near Simcoe, Ont. is the latest foreign worker in the province to die from COVID-19. The farm currently has 217 active cases, touching both migrant and local employees.

The number of new COVID-19 cases in Hamilton is averaging lower, with 61 people fighting the virus right now.

Join our Facebook Live Monday at noon with Hamilton city councillors Nrinder Nann and Maureen Wilson. We'll talk with them about why they support taking some of the Hamilton police budget and putting that money into other community safety efforts.

Are you ready to have the best garden on your block? Here's how: Ask an expert. Be part of our award-winning live chat with expert gardeners. Also listen to the call-in show with Ontario Today's Ed Lawrence. Call in by dialling 1-888-817-8995 on Monday.

Hamilton police charged two former correctional officers at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre after an inquest into drug overdose deaths in the jail.

Environment Canada says its expecting strong wind gusts, large hail and torrential rain.

Though Haldimand and Norfolk are entering Stage 2 of the province's re-opening plan, the landowners of Port Dover beach say it'll stay closed because they can't open the area safely.

Barton Street E has been closed between Cavell Avenue and Rosslyn Avenue.

A animal activist protest in Burlington has turned deadly after Halton police say a vehicle struck and killed one of the activists.

Six Nations of the Grand River is taking action to ensure that member business owners have access to relief fund support to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Chief Mark Hill said Thursday.

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce has outlined the province's plan for students' return to school in September.

Haldimand-Norfolk's board of health will meet Friday for the second time in a week to deal with blow-back from a public health order that says migrant workers in quarantine are limited to three per bunkhouse.

Domestic violence calls to Hamilton police have increased since COVID-19 hit, but police say it's too early to know if the pandemic has caused it, or if it's just a blip.

Six Nations chef Aicha Smith-Belghaba incorporates Haudenosaunee foods into her daily life and encourages others to do the same. For her, this is an act of resiliency - a way to bring back part of their culture, lost during colonization.

There are lots of rules to follow to stave off COVID-19 and try to live with a semblance of normalcy. Life in Hamilton and the surrounding areas will change on Friday. Here's what you need to know to be ready for it.

An associate professor at McMaster University has been arrested after Hamilton police allege he sexually assaulted a student.

A 61-year-old man shown on video putting his hands in his mouth then touching merchandise at a Hamilton store during the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged.

Join our Instagram Live Friday at noon with Six Nations chef Aicha Smith-Belghaba. We'll talk with her about authentic Haudenosaunee cooking and how COVID-19 has changed celebrations for National Indigenous People's Day on Sunday.

A Hamilton police officer has been found guilty of four charges under the Police Services Act in connection with his arrest of two photojournalists at the scene of a fatal accident in 2017.