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Booties, gloves and eye protection are among the items Paramedics are donning. Dispatchers are also screening callers for possible COVID-19 exposure and travel to affected countries.

International Women's Day has come to Hamilton and with it a wide variety of entertainment, learning and engagement options for the community.

Ontario's government is investing $202 million in new funding to take on human trafficking over the next five years, and Premier Doug Ford says he's sending a message to criminals — "We're coming for you."

Drivers warned visibility on area roads may be reduced by the heavy snow before it moves out of the region later this morning.

Police say the man was dropped off with 'suspicious injuries' they now think may have been self inflicted

A statue of Italian author and politician at Liuna Station is constantly covered in scarves during the winter and employees at the station say it's all thanks to one knitter.

The Hamilton Muslim Basketball Association has been running since 2004. Muslims join to play amongst each other while non-Muslims come for the competition and a chance to learn about a new culture — but now the league is in a dire financial situation.

The father of 10-year-old Jasmin Hanif, who died on the scene of a motor accident in 2017, testified in favour of Hamilton Police Const. Jeff Todoruck

Indigenous teachings emphasize duality - that everyone has elements of good and bad. Ganohkwasra uses that belief by putting victim and perpetrator in the same shelter - with conditions.

Officers seized drugs worth more than $100,000, along with the stolen property after raiding a Grimsby home on Feb. 12.

McMaster University is asking instructors to consider delivering lessons online as the school continues to monitor the outbreak of coronavirus.

Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money from the provincial government with no-strings attached.

Hamilton's Arkells will return this summer with another "Rally" and donate a portion of ticket sales to a local housing charity.

The Ontario Medical Association is propping up virtual video calling with physicians to diagnose patients without putting more people at risk of infection from COVID-19.

The 14-year-old accused of killing Selvey will return to court on May 27 to determine if the trial will include a jury. Then, the preliminary hearing will begin on Nov. 5.

Officers were called to the house on Portofino Place around 10:45 p.m. and found Baressi with multiple gunshot wounds. He died of his injuries at the scene.

Kia Nurse of Hamilton hit the game-winning shot with 21 seconds left on the clock to lift the Canberra Capitals to their second consecutive Australian women's basketball league title on Wednesday.

Dr. Zain Chagla, infectious disease physician at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, takes your questions and comments, this Thursday, March 5, at noon on the coronavirus outbreak.

Mackenzie Hughes never lost faith in his game, even as he struggled through five consecutive missed cuts to start 2020. But Hughes' troubles paled in comparison to the suffering of his friend Daniel Meggs, who died from cancer at the age of 29 on Feb. 23, three weeks before his wife's due date.

Martin started the expedition on Sunday along Lake Erie near Buffalo. To make the trip possible, she sold her home and plans on spending roughly $20,000 to circumnavigate all the great lakes.

Hamilton Public Health and city hospitals have been planning and preparing for coronavirus for weeks. While dozens of people have been tested locally, so far none of their results have come back positive for COVID-19.

A devastating base jump accident turned adrenaline junkie Lonnie Bissonnette from one extreme sport to another — para-bobsledding. At 55, he's dominating the sport.

Hearing begins for Const. Jeff Todoruck who arrested a local journalist on scene of a fatal accident in 2017.

Parking in Hamilton is about to get more expensive, but the city will soon introduce an app to make it a little easier for people to pay.

The newspaper staff will continue to work there for several months while MIP plans a major renovation of the building.

Hamilton city councillors have turned down spending $292,500 this year, and $877,660 over three years, to pay its arena workers, summer students and other part-time employees a living wage.

In what appear to be major concessions to teachers' unions, the Ontario government is backing down on class size increases and e-learning requirements in the midst of a contentious round of bargaining that has seen multiple rotating strikes.

Hamilton families are divided about whether COVID-19, which has infected 29 Canadians, will keep spreading and become an imminent threat.

The fog is expected to lift later on in the morning, but in the meantime those on the road are cautioned to slow down, leave extra travel time and drive according to the weather conditions.

A man has died of his injuries following a shooting near Portofino Place around 10:45 p.m. Monday, according to police.

Hamilton's Muslim community visited the Mountain Mosque on Monday evening to share their stories about bullying to a review panel created by Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board.

A woman has been arrested and is charged in relation to the missing donkey, police say

Two women were, police say, forced to work in the sex trade industry.

The test results for the undergraduate student, who developed flu-like symptoms after travelling to Italy over the reading week, came back negative, said the university in an update posted on its website Monday morning.

Students taking part in a "Hack the Plastics" event at the University of Waterloo spent the weekend dreaming up ways to mitigate the environmental damage caused by single-use plastics.

Investigators say the four-year-old Mammoth Jackstock is named named "Royal Major League" and was used for breeding.

The Highway 6 bypass has been blocked since Feb. 24.

Sungjae Im is tireless, and no longer winless. The 21-year-old South Korean started fast and finished stronger Sunday, winning The Honda Classic by one shot over Mackenzie Hughes for his first career PGA Tour victory in his 50th attempt.

McMaster University says the undergraduate student was in the Burke Science Building on Feb. 25 and says their COVID-19 results will come in this week.

A Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement to acknowledge land title rights established more than 20 years ago in a Supreme Court decision.

The student is an undergraduate who lives outside of Hamilton and sought medical attention after experiencing flu-like symptoms upon returning from a trip to Europe, says the university.

The Erie County sheriff's department adopted the dogs from a St. Catharines shelter to work in the drug enforcement unit.

The Ministry of Education $1.57 million into the project, which will run in eight school boards. The grad coaches will act as mentors and advisors for black students.

It's easy to imagine someone in the early 1900s, when the First World War had ended and Prohibition raged, walking the dark, cavernous underground of Hotel Hanrahan.

We've got some suggestions on how you can spend this leap year's extra day in the city.

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a set of "fish hooks" capable of catching the new coronavirus and quickly released it to the international community in hopes of helping health scientists determine how it's spreading.

An Ontario technology company claims it has developed the first-ever device capable of objectively and accurately measuring a person's cannabis impairment by reading their brainwaves.

Two senior government officials told CBC News they couldn't say whether the revised plates will look the same as the current blue plates, which have been blasted for visibility issues.

A common and highly resilient bacterial strain can be eliminated by an element produced by cannabis plants, discover researchers.

"Intense snowfall" and strong winds are forecast to blast through Hamilton Friday, reducing visibility and affecting the afternoon commute.