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Mayor Fred Eisenberger says Hamilton police are investigating after "defund the police" protestors left a coffin, on Monday night, in front of his home.

The Stoney Creek business that led Hamilton to release the names of businesses that infringe on pandemic protocols has, once again, broken the rules.

The upbound lanes of the Claremont Access and the new Keddy Access Trail will officially open on Friday afternoon.

More than 100 migrant farm workers from Trinidad and Tobago are stranded in Haldimand and Norfolk and can't return home because of COVID-19 concerns.

Eleven students and three staff members in Hamilton schools have tested positive for COVID-19 after the number of infections in the city has jumped in the past few days.

Hamilton's medical officer of health says if the city continues to see the number of new COVID-19 cases rise, it will "without a doubt" enter a full lockdown.

The midnight deadline for defund police demonstrators to take down their tents outside Hamilton city hall has come and gone, but the tents remain. Bylaw officers handed out trespassing notices and began to take down tents on Monday morning.

Yosif Al-Hasnawi's father Majed took the stand today in the trial of two paramedics charged with not providing proper care when his son was shot and died on Dec. 2, 2017.

Hamilton's public school board says the Sherwood Secondary School building will be closed Monday following a possible threat.

There were over 3.2 million visits to Ontario food banks between April 2019 and March 2020. Now the COVD-19 pandemic is adding to the real concern of food access to low-income earners and vulnerable populations.

Hamilton police say they've charged three people, including the organizer of a Hugs Over Masks event that gathered over 35 people by city hall.

After seeing daily record amounts of new cases late last week, the number of active cases of COVID-19 in Hamilton has passed the 500 mark.

Six students in the local public school board, and one student in the catholic school board have tested positive for the virus. Two staff members have also been infected.

Another employee at Cadillac Fairview Lime Ridge has tested positive for the virus.

Ontario reported another 1,708 cases of COVID-19 and 24 more deaths due to COVID-19 on Sunday.

For a second day in a row, Hamilton has seen a record amount of new COVID-19 cases in a single day.

Niagara Health has apologized after a video showing a security guard dumping a man from a wheelchair outside the St. Catharines hospital surfaced on social media and says the company that employs the guards is investigating.

Following a racist incident in Stratford, Ont., Katia Maxwell organized an anti-racism march.

Barry Beck says the arrest of four suspects in connection with his son's death is not a cause for celebration, but he still sees it as a gift ahead of what would have been Brock's 21st birthday.

Public health has issued an order to two long-term care homes in Hamilton, directing them to improve their response to ongoing outbreaks.

Three high school students in Hamilton were diagnosed with COVID-19 on Thursday.

A staff member at a Fortinos in Stoney Creek has tested positive for COVID-19.

An 83-year-old man is in life-threatening condition after police say he was struck by a white Mazda 3 while trying to cross a street in St. Catharines.

The charge from the Ministry of Environment stems back to a stench residents complained about back in 2018. At the time, city officials said the smell was "paralyzing" parts of the lower city and ordered it shut down.

Ontario reported another 1,855 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday while its labs processed more than 58,000 tests, both single-day records by considerable margins.

Six Nations families are being "strongly discouraged" to avoid crossing the U.S. border to celebrate Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

Hamilton reported 71 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday, the highest daily number so far during the pandemic.

Members of a Six Nations land reclamation camp called 1492 Land Back Lane have appealed two court injunctions ordering them to vacate a housing development in Caledonia, Ont.

The draft report of Mayor Fred Eiesenberger’s economic recovery task force lists dozens among dozens of suggestions to help the city rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic’s toll on business. But one question remains: will they even be implemented?

Hamilton police have charged four men in the 2020 murder of 20-year-old Brock Beck.

Mayor Fred Eisenberger said a call from demonstrators camped outside city hall to cut 50 per cent of the police budget is "not a rational notion."

A staff member at a Fortinos in Hamilton has tested positive for COVID-19.

Const. Michael Zezella remembers telling the father of shooting victim Yosif Al-Hasnawi that the teen was going to be okay. Al-Hasnawi died that same night.

Three more people connected to schools in Hamilton have COVID-19.

A pedestrian has died in Norfolk County after police say a vehicle struck them while they were on the side of Concession 10.

Just days after a city councillor and employees within Lime Ridge Mall raised concerns about a potential COVID-19 case, someone has someone test positive for the virus.

Hamilton's public school board called on social workers 772 times in October to check on students — more than double the number in September.

Ward 2's Jason Farr says he's received an "eye-popper" of a request from restaurants across Hamilton asking if there's any way they could be shut down to access enhanced wage and rent subsidies.

A series about a barely functioning women's prison in Hamilton hopes to bring levity during the pandemic and turn heads to local talent.

Hamilton police are hoping the public can help them crack a month-long mystery to identify a senior who has been in a Hamilton hospital since the end of October.

"He's been shot with a BB gun, and he's acting like it's an AK-47," one firefighter remembers a police officer saying. Two paramedics are on trial in relation to Al-Hasnawi's shooting death.

Police in Niagara region are warning about increasingly common credit card scams reported during the pandemic.

The 20-year-old was attacked outside 3063 Binbrook Road on July 26, 2020 just before 2 a.m., according to police. His family says he was "funny, loveable" and "the type of kid that you wanted for a son."

A woman in her late 90s from Idlewyld Manor died on Sunday. A man in his early 90s from the Village of Wentworth Heights died on Monday. A woman in her early 70s from Hamilton also died on Monday.

Seven more students in Hamilton have COVID-19 according to the city's public and Catholic school boards.

Local conservation authorities say they'll be significantly hindered by changes proposed by the province, which allow developers to bypass them for appeals and remove citizen representation from their boards.

Hamilton has discovered two leaks that were each pouring nearly half a million litres of drinking water into the city's stormwater system every day.

At the trial for Christopher Marchant and Steven Snively, two former Hamilton paramedics charged in relation to the death of 19-year-old Yosif Al-Hasnawi, witnesses will include experts in emergency medicine and toxicology, as well as some people who were at the scene of the December 2017 shooting.

Some elected officials are lending support to demonstrators camping outside Hamilton City Hall to demand the police budget be cut in half so the funds can be invested in housing instead.

Locals are concerned about people flocking to malls during the second wave of COVID-19, but public health says bylaw officers didn't raise concerns after a visit to Lime Ridge Mall.