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Canadian National Railway Co. has awarded a contract for 1,150 grain cars to National Steel Car Ltd. in Hamilton.

Thunderstorms and heavy rain are possible for Haldimand-Norfolk, Niagara and Brant County during the afternoon and into Saturday morning, according to Environment Canada.

As Labour Day approaches, close your eyes and picture the typical union member in Canada. If you conjured an image of a man wearing a hard hat or working in a factory, you missed the mark.

Students becoming infected by COVID-19 in schools is inevitable according to the city's medical officer of health, but that shouldn't be considered a failure.

Thousands of Hamilton students are behind on vaccinations because of COVID-19, according to public health officials who hope hiring more nurses will help them catch up on the backlog.

An employee at each grocery store has tested positive according to an online COVID-19 database.

Hamilton's Catholic school board is planning to spend at least $3.5 million to cut elementary class sizes and hire teachers to help students physically distance because of COVID-19.

Halton police say they arrested two people last night in a stolen Mercedes that had hit a parked cruiser and an officer with an open car door.

Environment Canada is warning residents in Hamilton, Niagara and Brant County that conditions are favourable for strong winds, nickel-sized hail and heavy rain.

A study from a top labourers' union says the LRT project would cost around $3.4 to $3.6 billion to build.

Ishwar K. Puri, Dean of Engineering and a professor at McMaster University says the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing universities to reimagine higher education. He offers a blueprint on how lessons learned during COVID will shape the future for students.

Seven-time Canadian Football League all-star Tommy Joe Coffey has died, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats have confirmed. He was 83. Coffey won two Grey Cups with Hamilton in 1967 and '72 and also played for the Edmonton Eskimos and Toronto Argonauts.

Provincial police in Haldimand County are reminding residents to always wear a life jacket following a "close call" for four young people who drifted out into Lake Erie and struggled to get back to shore.

Six Nations elementary school students will use online learning during September and October as classes reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Supercrawl will host five concerts on top of the York Boulevard parking garage at the end of September.

Ontario has revealed its plan to manage potential COVID-19 outbreaks in schools, which describes scenarios in which select students will be sent home and entire schools shut down as a result of positive cases.

According to the Haudenosaunee worldview, all issues regarding land fall on the responsibility of women. It’s why a group of Haudenosaunee women from Six Nations of the Grand River are opposing the use of injunctions against their community members who have been occupying a housing development outside Caledonia, Ont., since July 19.

At some universities around Ontario, COVID has become part of the curriculum, with schools teaching pandemic-themed courses in health, law, politics, art and economics.

Shaw Festival has announced that that it will put on outdoor musical performances a month after it decided to cancel most of its 2020 season.

There are 63 active cases in Hamilton as of Tuesday morning, compared to just 14 tallied at the end of July.

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board gave local media a tour of one of its newer schools on the mountain, Shannen Koostachin Elementary, on Tuesday.

An injunction that calls for Indigenous demonstrators to leave a residential development just outside Caledonia, Ont. has been ordered to continue.

Join our Facebook Live Thursday at noon with Dr. Kathy Georgiades, pediatric psychologist with the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences and Dr. Martha Fulford, infectious diseases specialist at McMaster Children’s Hospital and Hamilton Health Sciences.

Hamilton’s public school board has extended the deadline for parents to register children for in-person or virtual learning as its Parent Portal continues to frustrate families.

Police say the suspect promised to pay back double what they borrowed.

All students at Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board will be required to wear a mask in school.

Up to 20 per cent of students in Hamilton's public school board could register for online learning. That's roughly 10,000 students or close to one in five kids at Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board.

There are 973 total cases in Hamilton, which is up one since yesterday.

A 31-year-old man is facing charges, Hamilton police say, following an incident where a girl under the age of 16 was sexually assaulted then given money.

Hamilton-Wentworth Public District School Board trustees approve a revised school reopening plan that includes a staggered start to the year and spending up to roughly $9 million in reserve funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hamilton police say an 18-year-old has been arrested in connection with an incident where a shotgun was fired into the ceiling of a short-term rental on Aberdeen Avenue.

Brantford police say they've arrested a 23-year-old after he was found driving a golf cart on the Wayne Gretzky Parkway with an open container of alcohol.

Traffic is again moving on Argyle Street and the Highway 6 bypass near Caledonia. The roads, which were blocked by demonstrators for weeks, were reopened over the weekend.

Hamilton neighbourhoods with more low-income residents and people of colour have higher rates of COVID-19 according to a new report from Hamilton's Social Planning and Research Council.

Students of all ages riding the school bus in Hamilton this September will be required to wear a mask.

Ontario recorded another 115 COVID-19 cases on Sunday. a 0.3 per cent increase as the province processed more than 23,300 tests.

Hamilton and surrounding areas are under a heat warning as Environment Canada says the temperature may feel as hot as 39 on Sunday and Monday.

McMaster University is introducing a new course on Black, African and African Diaspora studies that is poised to be a stepping stone for a new program.

Pregnant women in Ontario jails are getting prenatal care that falls far short of international standards, says a new study from McMaster University.

Kyle Bekker scored in the seventh minute of added time as Forge FC moved to the top of the Canadian Premier League standings with a 2-1 win over Pacific FC on Saturday in Charlottetown.

Police say four men approached her with aggression and demanded the CHCH reporter hand over her SD card from her work camera.

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New research from Brock University shows those trying to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are up against an intriguing obstacle: people lying.

The city says it will challenge a court injunction preventing it from dismantling the more than 50 tents that have popped up downtown that house people who are sleeping rough.

Provincial police say they've shut down a massive operation in the Niagara Region that rerouted cannabis grown for medical use to the illegal market, seizing more than 100,000 plants and $2.5 million Canadian.

A spokesperson for Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett said Canada "deeply values" its relationship with Six Nations and is "committed to continuing to work collaboratively to address Six Nations' historical claims and land right issues."

In a recent informal poll carried out by a journalist of Vietnamese origin on Facebook, 94 per cent of respondents said they'd vote for Trump in November. A McMaster University professor took a look what's behind trump's support inside the Vietnamese community.

Brant OPP officers charged four people with stunt driving in the span of eight hours. All drivers were going at least 50 km/h above the speed limit.

A new provincial plan to turn Mountain brow land into housing and mid-rise buildings has heritage advocates once again fearing for the fate of Century Manor.