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A group called Metro Partners Inc. wants to build two towers, a municipal high-rise, a three-storey podium and an urban plaza on city hall land. It even proposes a rooftop skating rink.

The city doesn't want any of the $1 billion originally earmarked for Hamilton light rail transit (LRT) to pay for highway projects the province is supposed to pay for.

Ontario's education minister says the province's biggest teachers' union is adding "new elements to their priority list," including that hiring be based on union seniority.

The 14-year-old accused of killing Devan Selvey isn't scheduled to face a preliminary hearing until January 2021.

Hamilton teacher Joe Cappadocia explains why the teacher's strike is not about compensation. He says Ontario has a great education system and funding cuts won't keep it that way.

The county is closing a pioneer museum with an annual budget of $39,000, and hoping community groups bid to operate the arenas.

A 25-year-old man is facing mischief charges after he defecated on someone's deck in Turkey Point, and the act was caught on video surveillance.

Ontario Provincial Police sent a vehicle to trail the bus on the highway while other officers and Halton police waited at Aldershot station, eventually arresting the man.

A new report calls for Hamilton's public school board to terminate a program that places police officers in schools, and recommends the board review its policies on racism, discrimination and Islamophobia.

Environment Canada is warning people in the Hamilton, Burlington and the Niagara region to brace for a blast of wintry weather later this week.

Niagara Regional Police say they have arrested the man believed to be driving a car that crashed into the Welland Canal last month.

Provincial police say a drone spotted hovering outside a Port Dover woman's window as she changed her clothes was being flown by someone who had simply lost control of the device.

Ontario's minister of education and the head of the province's biggest teachers' union are openly accusing each other of lying to the public about ongoing contract negotiations as strike actions ramp up.

Downtown Hamilton has a growing number of jobs and a decreasing percentage of office vacancies, a new city report says. And the number of vacant storefronts is down slightly too.

The city of Hamilton will stop accepting paper HSR tickets in September, hoping people use their PRESTO cards to ride the bus instead.

Officers say the new tips have prompted them to check the area around Wentworth Street North and Burlington Avenue East.

The awards were established in 1996 and takes place each year to celebrate the achievements of youth and to acknowledge the contributions of community members.

A 24-year-old police initially thought died under "criminally suspicious" circumstances was actually run over by a salt truck.

The city of Burlington, Ont., has fired a parking enforcement officer after social media posts showed he parked in an accessible space without a permit — twice on the same day.

Hamilton police's Emergency Response Unit, ACTION unit and K9 unit searched for the man on Friday and Saturday near Britannia Avenue and London Street North.

Three teenagers are facing dozens of charges in connection with a bank robbery in St. Catharines late Friday afternoon.

With the Kansas City Chiefs set to step onto one of the world's biggest sporting stages Sunday night, a professor expects all of the attention will help reignited conversation about the team's name and use of stereotypical Indigenous symbols.

A 25-year-old woman was seriously injured, police say, after she was hit by a pickup truck in a Tim Hortons parking lot Saturday.

The three largest teacher’s unions in the province are planning strikes that will impact some or all of the GTA’s school boards this week.

Police say Kyle Richardson was left near the emergency entrance at Juravinski Hospital just after 2:30 a.m. Saturday. He was later pronounced dead.

Shola Ekperigin is making Nigerian chocolate with a message in Hagersville.

The province and educators are at the bargaining table, but if talks breakdown again, more strikes are expected.

The festival organizers think this year does a better job of including events for adults, while also offering kid-friendly events.

Joe Cappadocia, a teacher Cathedral High School in Hamilton, responds to your comments and questions about the teacher's strikes happening in Hamilton and around the province. What do you want to say to Hamilton teachers?

In the video, a woman who police say is Holly Ellsworth-Clark walks in the rain, wearing what appears to be a rain poncho with black pants and black boots, while carrying a black garbage bag that appears to be full.

Hamilton police have charged a 19-year-old man with human trafficking after police say he used drugs to lure a young woman into the sex trade.

Shane Wright didn't need much time to prove he belongs in the Ontario Hockey League.

Local anti-racism activists say Hamilton's police chief and police board don't understand the importance of new provincial rules requiring police officers to record the race of people in cases involving a use of force.

Hamilton hospitals are so crowded that it's taking hours for paramedics to offload patients at their doors, and it cost the city more than $6 million last year.

Hamilton is a city of more than 45,000 street lights, 600 litter containers and more than 2,000 marriage licences.

A dozen people are facing charges for 81 offences following a provincial police investigation targeting high-level suppliers who provided organized crime groups in Ontario and Quebec with drugs.

Niagara Regional Police have issued a warrant for the man believed to be driving a car that crashed into the Welland Canal earlier this month.

Hamilton fashion designer Charles Lu is one of the contenders on Netflix's new competitive series Next In Fashion. The show launches this week.

Hamilton police have identified David Stevens, 46, as the victim of the city's first homicide of the year.

Hamilton city councillors will sharpen their pencils over the next month to try to trim down a 3.8 per cent budget increase on city taxpayers.

While he awaits a second criminal trial, disgraced former Hamilton police officer Craig Ruthowsky is named in a civil lawsuit claiming he devised a gun-planting scheme that sent a man to jail for four years.

Toronto police say the man approached his victims by pretending to be an RCMP officer and recruiting their help in a non-existent investigation.

A Hamilton man is facing a long list of firearm-related charges, police say, after he threatened a couple while holding a gun Tuesday.

Provincial police say they're investigating after they say someone poured urine into a Norfolk County home.

One of the city's biggest developers says he has a $200-million plan to redevelop Hamilton's downtown entertainment facilities, and build two new office buildings to boot. And unlike a recent proposal to put an arena at Lime Ridge Mall, there's no public money involved.

An Ontario Provincial Police officer suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries after he was struck by a vehicle while directing traffic on a highway in Hamilton on Tuesday.

The seven-year-old Hamilton boy who was shot multiple times when someone fired at his house is still recovering in hospital.

The family of Holly Ellsworth-Clark had to become investigators overnight, in an unfamiliar town, looking for their child and not knowing where to start.

Elementary students in Hamilton will be out of school due to strikes for two days in a row next Thursday and Friday, Jan. 6 and Jan. 7, while Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board teachers are also at the picket line next Tuesday, Feb. 4.

A team of researchers from the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences recently published a study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition which suggests eating one egg a day is OK.