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The Ministry of Health says local public health units, which are responsible for immunization programs including those in schools, are working to let residents know where they can access the vaccines.

A student at McMaster University has tested positive for COVID-19, the school's third case of the virus.

It was a tornado that tore through a section of Flamborough Wednesday afternoon, leaving a a towering tree snapped off at its roots, a barn roof torn to pieces and a truck tipped over on its side in its wake.

McMaster has taken action on two more staff members as part of an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations within faculty of the university's psychology, neuroscience and behaviour department.

Ohsweken Public Health has reported three confirmed cases and two probable cases of the virus within 24 hours.

The city has reached an agreement with a group of Hamilton doctors and lawyers to do a needs assessment of people sleeping rough in exchange for dismantling large downtown encampments.

Someone covered the city's first photo radar camera in black squiggles, the day before it as set to begin catching speeders on Stone Church Road between Dartnall and Pritchard roads.

The tests are only available by appointment for people without symptoms of the virus.

Hamilton city council has reprimanded the chair of its LGBTQ advisory committee after the city's integrity commissioner says he tweeted an unredacted motion with employee information in it.

David Capizzano, 26, was hit with COVID-like symptoms in March before testing was widespread. He says the virus "really does knock the wind out of you." During our Facebook Live Thursday at noon, he and Dr. Jeremy Hirota, a lung immunologist at McMaster University, talk about what we know and don't know about what COVID can do to your body.

Roughly 60 people attended a vigil in Hamilton to pay their respects to Holly Clark, the 27-year-old from Calgary who went missing in January and was found dead in Hamilton Harbour at the start of September.

The employee worked at the centre between Sept. 14 and Sept. 17, says the city.

Ontario reported an additional 700 cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the most on a single day since the outbreak began in late January.

Police are investigating an overnight shooting after a 26-year-old showed up at a Hamilton hospital with an injury believed to have been caused by a gun.

Zoran Benasich was found in the parking lot of the Big Bee on Cannon Street East with "obvious traumatic injuries" caused by a stabbing.

Hamilton's public school board has its first student case of COVID-19 as local schools continue to see more infections.

The fate of Cameron Kroetsch as Hamilton city council's LGBTQ advisory committee chair is up in the air after an integrity commissioner report admonishing him for a tweet and a radio interview where he disparaged city council.

Fresh projections suggest that Ontario's second wave of COVID-19 will peak in mid-to late October and will likely send enough people to intensive care units that hospitals will need to scale back non-emergency surgeries.

Sabrina Haque, the mother of 14-year-old Zara Buren, who died after a horseback riding accident in Flamborough on Sept. 21, says her daughter was 'exceptional.'

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is investigating after an incident overnight involving Hamilton police, in which a man sustained serious injuries.

A classroom has closed in St. Patrick Catholic Elementary School in Burlington after someone in the school community tested positive for COVID-19.

A 21-year-old man was critically injured in a single-vehicle collision in Burlington overnight, Halton Police say.

The city of Hamilton is looking into offering up two properties for modular homes, which are homes made in a factory, transported and rebuilt on site. And it wants someone to operate them as supportive housing.

Since March, seven public schools in Hamilton have joined a wait list to access a program by a local non-profit that feeds low-income students healthy meals.

A southern Ontario police services board is calling on the Ontario Provincial Police to arrest an NDP MP and take action against what it calls "acts of terrorism" committed by members of Six Nations who halted a housing development in Caledonia, Ont.

In a tiring pandemic, it's a moment of rare good news. The City of Hamilton, which previously thought COVID-19 would put it $61 million in the hole, will actually finish the year with a surplus.

COVID-19 assessment and testing centres in Hamilton have moved to online booking effective Thursday, the city has announced.

An individual at William Hamilton Merritt Public School in St. Catharines has tested positive for COVID-19.

The body of Holly Ellsworth-Clark has undergone a second autopsy and her family may hire a dive team to search the Hamilton Harbour as uncertainty about the circumstances of her death continue to disrupt their ability to grieve.

Ontario wants to avoid imposing lockdown-style measures to combat a second wave of COVID-19, but is prepared to take 'targeted action" such as closing certain higher-risk businesses, CBC News has learned.

Hamilton public health officials are struggling to keep up with the demand for COVID-19 testing after demand tripled in a number of weeks.

A man who allegedly identified himself as an Uber driver sexually assaulted two women in separate incidents, Hamilton police say.

Two schools in Brantford and a Catholic elementary school in Waterdown have COVID-19 cases.

The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board's virtual learning plan is taking criticism from teachers, union leaders and some parents.

Hamilton school boards will begin planned rotation of cancelled bus routes starting Sept. 28 as it struggles to overcome an unprecedented bus driver shortage.

Hamilton will activate its automated speed enforcement (ASE) cameras and start issuing tickets to speeding drivers beginning on Oct. 1, the city announced Wednesday.

Investigators have now charged three people in connection with the fatal shooting of a Brantford couple last summer, Ontario Provincial Police and Brantford Police Service said Wednesday.

As COVID-19 cases appear in schools in Hamilton, Burlington, Niagara and the surrounding area, CBC Hamliton has created a map that shows which local schools are affected by the virus.

The city is laying down some permanent rules about secondary dwelling units, including tiny homes in local backyards, to try to address Hamilton's dire housing shortage. But first, it wants to hear what residents think.

Most people who are homeless have cell phones, and a group of Hamilton social service agencies are joining together to launch an app that will help them find food banks, clothing banks and other services.

Some of the virtual classes in Hamilton's public school board still haven't started their first class because of more students enrolling into the online option as COVID-19 cases pop up in local schools.

A 16-year-old boy from Lincoln is facing charges after police say reports that an armed suspect abducted him turned out to be false.

About 1 in 10 students in Hamilton public schools aren't wearing masks according to the Hamilton Wentworth-District School Board.

Organizers say the 126th edition of North America's oldest, long-distance road race won't happen in 2020.

Canada is at a "crossroads" in its pandemic battle and the actions of individual Canadians will decide whether there's a massive spike in COVID-19 cases coming, according to the latest projections from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).

After a woman was found dead in a Hamilton apartment building, police say, a man has been arrested and charged with second degree murder.

It will cost nearly $31 million to repair the damage rising lake levels have caused to Hamilton's waterfront trails, and the city will start by spending $17 million on part of the shoreline by Bayfront Park.

After a horseback riding accident in Flamborough, police say, a 14-year-old girl has died.

Niagara Region Public Health has declared an outbreak at Eastdale Secondary School in Welland.

Plans are underway for Hamilton's Sam Lawrence Park to get a new multiuse trail, better gardens, new signs and lighting, and a pedestrian footbridge over the Jolley Cut.