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Feeling confused about where the rules stand when it comes to preventing the spread of COVID-19? Here's what the city and province say about what you can and can't do.

Hamilton police were searching for the vehicle following last week's shooting. It's been found, but it's been damaged and burned.

The federal government is suspending the export of sophisticated Canadian drone technology to Turkey while Ottawa investigates claims that it is being used by the Azerbaijani military against Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Monday.

The Justin Trudeau Liberal government, like its Conservative predecessor, has done little to act on the recommendations from a fact-finding report into a Six Nations 2006 land conflict that is playing out again today on a different property in Caledonia, Ont., according to a former elected chief of the community.

When it comes to being lenient on organized crime, one of the country's leading experts on the mafia says Canada is the best country in the world. Antonio Nicaso, author of more than 30 books about organized crime spoke with the CBC about the mafia in Canada.

The calls began as a way to help older members navigate the Hamilton Public Library's online offerings, but for many it became something more — a friendly voice and link to the rest of the world as everything around them seemed to be shutting down.

The worker was last on campus on Sept. 29 and spent time at the Life Sciences Building, according to an update shared Sunday following confirmation of the case.

A Hamilton karaoke bar is letting its customers sing in the shower during the pandemic. To keep people safe, they've constructed a shower stall, complete with curtains and tubular piping, on stage.

An eye witness reported someone in a white, newer-model sedan fired a weapon — believed to be a BB-gun — toward a shelter near Oak Park and Hardy roads.

Two more COVID-19 cases have been linked to Hamilton schools — including the first case at a public high school in the city. New cases have also appeared at schools in Niagara and Brantford.

Ontario reported 566 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, as walk-in COVID-19 tests end across the province.

Police describe the suspect as slender, standing about 5'9" and wearing a grey sweater with black sleeves and the hood pulled over his head. He was also wearing a blue surgical mask.

The country's chief public health officer says Canada is running out of time to prevent a major resurgence of COVID-19, with the Ontario and Quebec continuing to report some of their highest daily case counts in months.

Hamilton police in Quinn Macdougall’s case were not charged, but his family is still looking for answers and reform.

With new cases rising, the province and Hamilton's top doctor say people should only keep to the people they live with.

An individual has been shot in the area of Mohawk and Upper James streets, Hamilton Police say.

A Toronto construction company that specializes in restoration work has been fined $150,000 after a worker fell to his death from a three-storey residential building in Hamilton on Oct. 18, 2018.

The utility companies that serve Cambridge, North Dumfries Township and Brantford are entering talks about possibly merging their utilities.

Hamilton's manager of parks and cemeteries confirmed the signs in question were removed and will be replaced.

A student has tested positive at Sir E. MacMillan Public School and one class is self-isolating, says the school board.

Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he's willing to halt military export permits to NATO ally Turkey if an investigation determines Canadian technology, made by a company in Burlington, Ont., is leading to human rights abuses.

Ontario is introducing a number of stricter public health measures, some provincewide and some more targeted to current hotspots like Toronto, Ottawa and Peel, as the province reported a record-high number of new COVID-19 cases on Friday.

Investigators from the Major Crime Unit are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man they believe may have information that could assist with the investigation into the death of Amy Hager.

A 34-year-old man has died following a stabbing incident Thursday night, police say.

A Niagara humane society is looking for a suspected "cold-hearted individual" it says ditched a black kitten — still in a carrier — in a Grimsby park.

Hamiton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board told staff that high school students are able to begin practice and training for school sports, but only if an educator volunteers to supervise or coach.

The Hess Street South eatery is the site of the city's first outbreak at a restaurant after two confirmed cases were linked to it.

Prabhjot Thiara pulled his father into a barn as an EF1 tornado tore apart their farm, turning fence posts into missiles, smashing trailers and levelling an outbuilding.

Someone at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Elementary School in Niagara falls and someone at Gary Allan High School in Burlington have tested positive for COVID-19.

One year after 76-year-old Gerald Lawrence was stabbed and killed in the city's east end, Hamilton police say they have arrested the man they believe killed him.

It's less about predicting the virus and more about giving businesses stability, says the city's head of planning and economic development.

The number of absences in staff and students in Hamilton's public school board is more than double what they were last year, before the COVID-19 pandemic began infecting people in schools and across the region.

The service says the "fight club" included "consensual and non-consensual fights" between young people in Brantford.

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.