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The Trump administration health official embroiled in a furor over political meddling with the coronavirus response is taking a leave of absence, the government announced Wednesday.

The Canada Games Council announced the postponement after consulting with the Niagara region, as well as the provincial and federal governments. More than 5,000 athletes and 4,000 volunteers are expected to participate.

A rise in the number of walk-ins has the lead for assessment centres in Hamilton asking residents to book an appointment before coming to get swabbed.

School custodians usually deal with dirty halls, clogged toilets and gum under desks. This year, there's an added challenge — keeping COVID-19 at bay.

Henry Giroux, professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, says that to appeal to white supremacists President Donald Trump is trying to rewrite the history of racial injustice in the U.S. while eliminating the institutions that make visible its historical roots.

Hamilton police say one of the suspects involved in the killings of Hamilton mobster Angelo Musitano and Mila Barberi, from Vaughan, Ont., was found dead in Mexico this summer.

Hamilton educators and their unions are becoming worried about what they say is a large number of students not wearing masks in local public schools.

Norfolk County will sell back land intended for a major sports and recreation hub, leaving supporters of the county's small-town arenas wondering what this means for the future of their facilities.

Hamilton school buses will start consolidated routes on Wednesday in an effort to try and improve an unprecedented local bus driver shortage, but delays will persist.

A 93-bed field hospital hastily erected outside Joseph Brant Hospital in anticipation of an initial surge in COVID-19 cases will now find new life as a regional resource, should the need for more space arise.

In a letter to families posted online, Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board says system updates have been delayed, which means the virtual school will start on Wednesday at 9 a.m.

All staff members are being tested "out of an abundance of caution," according to a post on Facebook.

It's the third case in the Halton Region this year. The first two cases were people living in Oakville, according to a media release from the municipality.

She went from political obscurity to centre-stage in the Conservative leadership race overnight. Now, Leslyn Lewis says she intends to run in the next election for a seat long held by the Conservatives in southwestern Ontario.

The staff member last worked on Route #5 Delaware on Sept. 8 and 9 and notified the city they had tested positive over the weekend, says the city.

McMaster University appears to be distancing itself from a a part-time faculty member who's been working for the Trump administration to allegedly downplay the impact of COVID-19.

If a student has COVID-19 and was in a classroom with others while they had the virus, that class will likely close, but the rules around closing and reopening schools are murkier.

McMaster University has announced classes for its entire 2020/2021 school year will take place online.

Potential delays for public virtual schools, delayed school buses and no local COVID-19 outbreak plan are some of the issues Hamilton schools are wrestling with during the first days of schools reopening.

Hamilton's Forge FC will learn its path in the 2020 CONCACAF League next Monday at the tournament draw in Miami. The 22-team competition is a feeder event that will send six clubs to the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League.

A wide range of pandemic fuelled factors is pushing up prices in Hamilton as buyers look to flee Toronto and the supply of homes for sale isn't keeping up.

Thousands of homes and businesses in Hamilton were without power for much of the morning. The Catholic school board said it was dismissing students at three schools.

A statement from the university says the employee was last on campus on Sept. 8 and notified the university on Saturday that they had tested positive.

Hamilton police are investigating after shots were fired in two separate incidents Sunday night.

Two days of class — that's all it took for and elementary school near Hagersville in Haldimand County. Meanwhile, a Burlington elementary school also has a COVID-19 case after just five days of class.

A Crown Point industrial business suffered half a million dollars in damage after a fire spread through its interior Sunday morning.

A Niagara police officer has his badge back after someone returned his lost wallet — without the badge in it.

Hundreds of people demonstrated outside of the office of the Ontario Indigenous affairs ministry in Toronto on Saturday to show support for members of Six Nations of the Grand River arrested in a land dispute.

Concerns about crowds of people jam-packed at attractions on Clifton Hill have led to a clash between the mayor of Niagara Falls and the region's medical officer of health.

Holly Ellsworth-Clark's family is flying from Calgary to host a candlelight vigil for her in Hamilton near the end of September.

Students in St. Thérèse of Lisieux Catholic Elementary School poked at their masks while they sat at their desks on Thursday, but never took them off. When they are off outside though, sometimes they students got a little too close to each other.

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Hamilton police are looking for a group of suspects they say broke into Dundas Valley Secondary School multiple times in the summer to steal and vandalize the building.

Niagara police are searching for two men who they say broke into a cathedral and stole the tabernacle from the main altar on Tuesday.

Niagara police say a five-year-old is safe after his father allegedly took him from a Grimsby home and fled from police.

At least 2,000 more elementary students in Hamilton's public school board are now enrolled virtual schooling right before all students are set to start classes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Holly went missing on Jan. 11, her body was found in Hamilton's harbour Thursday. Her family still has so many unanswered questions about what happened and why.

The work will begin this fall in order to reduce the risk of fire and "other potential hazards," according to the Crown agency.

An animal rights activist has been charged under a new Ontario law for allegedly interfering with a truck carrying pigs to slaughter at the same plant where another activist was killed after she was hit by a truck.

The risk of contracting the virus in Hamilton has moved from moderate to high.

Darren Montour spoke with Craig Norris from The Morning Edition - K-W about his background, the challenges he plans to take on and what First Nations policing can teach other law enforcement services amid calls across North America to defund police.

The pandemic has made the transition from summer to September classes hectic for families, educators and students, but it will be even harder for people with disabilities and on individual education plans.

A Hamilton man has been charged with assault with a weapon after police say he "became irate" and swore at a staff member working at the city's drive-thru COVID-19 testing centre.

Hundreds of volunteers spread out across Hamilton looking for the 27-year-old who had recently moved from Calgary and has been missing since Jan. 11.

Join our Facebook Live Friday at noon with Jennifer Vickers-Manzin, Hamilton's Chief Nursing Officer and Chris Pickersgill, Manager of the city's Public Health School Program. They'll tell us how public health nurses will aim to keep students, staff and teachers safe from COVID-19 now that school has started.

Hamilton school boards will undergo a "complete reorganization" of school bus routes with a shortage of about 60 and 70 drivers.

First responders in Haldimand County rescued three people from a sinking boat in rough Lake Erie waters on Wednesday.

Meetings for the Waterdown and racialized communities will take place virtually via Zoom on Sept. 22 and Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. respectively.

Christopher Vanderweide, who's known on social media as "helmet guy," has pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a weapon after violence at a 2019 Pride festival.

One survey from Children's Healthcare Canada and an ongoing study from Brock University show that Canadians fear COVID-19 will impact children's education and that students are aware — and afraid — of the virus.