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The City of Burlington wants to turn Robert Bateman High School into a combined Brock University campus and Burlington Public Library branch.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has been called in after a man Niagara police had been negotiating with died.

Provincial police are investigating after someone set off fireworks in the front lawn of a Port Dover home, causing a fire and damaging some siding.

Owners of gyms and indoor restaurants are frustrated and desperate because they're not allowed to reopen next week, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says.

The executive director at the Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto says the discovery of 751 unmarked graves in Saskatchewan has to be a wake-up call, and that Canada must start giving all Indigenous peoples meaningful respect.

The Hamilton police service will keep its $2.1 million surplus after little discussion at its oversight board meeting on Thursday.

When the library board voted in April to permanently eliminate fees and fines, it joined a worldwide movement of library systems that have done so.

Three people face various charges, Niagara police say, after alleged fraud at the District School Board of Niagara (DSBN) resulted in a loss of over $2.1 million.

The owner of Wylde Rose Soaps joined Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath in calling for a better process in getting applications in for small business grants.

Brantford and provincial police have charged seven people with first-degree murder following a joint investigation into two homicides in the city that happened in July 2019.

A bulldozed community and 1960s home to workers and immigrants in Hamilton will be honoured through the naming of Brightside Park.

Hamilton police says it is investigating an armed robbery at a Stoney Creek pharmacy.

For the first time since October 3 last year, Hamilton has its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases.

A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Hamilton has been uncovered after spending three days under a piece of black fabric.

The driver was heading south on Highway 6 before his truck sideswiped another vehicle and crashed into a house.

Police were expecting $1.6 million surplus but say COVID-19 relief funding bumped it up.

Hamilton police have released images of two suspects from the city's seventh homicide of the year.

A Hamilton Police Service (HPS) use of force report shows officers drew their handguns and pointed firearms more often in 2020 than they did in 2019. And so did the people they apprehended.

A juvenile Nile monitor lizard is lost from Little Rays Reptile Zoo and Nature Centre in Hamilton.

Hamilton firefighters rescued someone at Tew's Falls just before 1 p.m. on Sunday.

The portion of the pass between the Sherman Cut and Kenilworth Access has been shut down as of 8 a.m. The closure is expected to end around 4 p.m., weather permitting.

Four trains will travel from the hub in Toronto each Saturday, Sunday and holiday Monday, stopping at Exhibition, Port Credit, Oakville, Burlington, Aldershot and St. Catharines along the way.

Fire crews were called to 824 Upper Ottawa, near Mohawk Road, around 3:18 p.m. and found "heavy smoke" and a "well-involved fire" in a garage attached to a one-storey home, says fire chief Dave Cunliffe.

A national parole board panel hearing the impassioned pleas of Paul Bernardo's victims has turned down a request for release by the convicted Ontario killer and serial rapist. One mother says her pain is a "life sentence."

A mother staying in a Hamilton shelter with her five young children says it took about two months before she was moved out of a cockroach-infested unit at Martha House.

The CEBL's third season tips off Thursday, with the Ottawa BlackJacks hosting the Niagara River Lions. Of 114 players in training camps, just 20 have been with the league from the start. Another 31 are entering their second season. That means 63 new players will step on Canadian courts this summer.

Brantford police are looking for a white Chevrolet Silverado Z71 with a black truck bed tool box after a Pride crosswalk was vandalized.

Maureen Cosyn Heath has been named as the new head of the Hamilton Street Railway. The new role follows years with the Southwestern Ontario Student Transportation Services and a decade at the London Transit Commission.

Hamilton's medical officer of health says public health is reserving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for youth aged 12 to 17 and says most people getting a shot this week can expect a Moderna dose.

Public health units in Hamilton and Niagara in soluthern Ontario are getting creative to vaccinate people between ages 12 and 40.

The Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) says a lack of provincial support for the Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia has reached an "unsafe point."

A man who has been a member of the Norfolk County OPP auxiliary unit for five years is facing a list of charges, including sexual assault and possession of child pornography, according to provincial police.

The statement warned thunderstorms with "frequent lightning" and "heavy downpours" were expected to roll through the Hamilton area on Monday morning. It ended around 8:30 a.m.

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The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Hamilton has been covered in fabric from head to toe and wrapped tightly with a red rope. Indigenous community members want it to be removed, but the city says it has no plans to take it down.

Animal rights activists around the globe gathered this weekend for memorials, vigils and demonstrations marking the death of Regan Russell.

Ontario reported 318 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down from 355 new cases on Saturday. The province is also reporting 12 additional deaths.

Officers were called to the the area of Columbus Gate and Lexington Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Friday following reports of a shooting.

After a year of suffering under COVID-19, the first ever Hamilton Queer Film Festival will celebrate this year, a growing collection of films that aren’t about trauma.

Low-cost airline Swoop is on the rebound after being hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, head of commercial and finance Bert van der Stege said Friday.

A Connecticut aquarium plans to auction off the chance to name three of its five recently arrived beluga whales to raise money for their care and to offset the cost of transporting them from Canada.

Hamilton paramedics helped 48,412 people get to a hospital in 2020 — an average of 132 patients a day. Here's a look at other numbers throughout the year.

A 45-year-old man has been arrested after another man was stabbed following a collision in St. Catharines Thursday evening, Niagara Regional Police Service says.

Niagara police are investigating after a video appears to show a driver missing a stop sign and nearly hitting an 11-year-old on a bike.

A woman who grew up playing piano and accordion in Barbados and died after years of experiencing homelessness in Hamilton is at the heart of Denise Davy's new book, Her Name Was Margaret: Life and Death on the Streets.

Being named a hot spot for the variant means Hamilton residents who received a first mRNA dose as of May 30 can book a second dose after a shorter wait.

The Royal Botanical Gardens, which owns environmental protection areas and cultural gardens in southern Ontario, wants people to resist taking photos of turtles and sharing them on social media because it could endanger the population.

The City of Hamilton says an employee has been fired and faces police charges following reports of a theft.

For years, Geronimo Henry carried a folding "travelling wall" bearing some 1,500 names of children like himself who were forced to attend the Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont. Now, he's launched a fundraiser to make it a permanent monument.