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Join our Facebook Live Thursday at noon with Dr. Martha Fulford, infectious diseases specialist at McMaster Children’s Hospital and Hamilton Health Sciences. She'll explain why children should be free to celebrate Halloween under COVID-19.

Maci, a four-year-old poodle-bichon from the Niagara Region, is the first Canadian dog to test positive for COVID-19.

Hamilton police are asking residents to check surveillance cameras for suspicious activity after a gunshot was fired on the Mountain.

An employee at the Centre on Barton Shoppers Drug Mart has tested positive for COVID-19.

The Microsoft Teams platform used during online classes showed students' legal names.

A man in his late 50s is dead following a workplace accident at Waste Management Canada Monday night.

There wasn't a COVID-19 outbreak at Emerald Lodge when the city evacuated the building on Friday, but if the virus did find its way inside the Hamilton care home, the city believes it would have become a serious outbreak because of the state of the facility.

Niagara police say a man trapped in a burning car following a crash in Welland Monday died after passersby and officers tried to pull him from the fire.

When Alicia Seed was moving from Dundas to St. Catharines, she knew it wouldn't be free. But she certainly didn't expect to arrive to her new home with at $3,600 bill and none of her possessions.

Nicole Barati and Tyler Kipling are spending their days picking up used needles around Hamilton as the city sees an increase in drug use.

Angel Doxtater, from Six Nations of the Grand River, Ont., created a chess set completely out of corn husk dolls - a Haudenosaunee craft that was passed down from her mother.

Hamilton mourns the loss of David Braley, a former owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, leader for sport in Hamilton, and an honoured philanthropist who gave millions of dollars to organizations in need.

Six Nations demonstrators blocking a housing development in Caledonia, Ont. are taking aim at a video shared by the OPP commissioner on social media, saying it lacks context and doesn't tell the whole story.

COVID-19 has infected 37 more people in Hamilton as of Monday as the number of new cases in the city is holding steady.

The first person to get COVID-19 and set off Hamilton's largest ongoing outbreak may have gotten the virus in Toronto according to provincial public health officials.

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board has opened up an 87-question survey for students about bullying in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hamilton police are looking for a man they believe witnessed the double homicide at Urban Lounge in March. They also think more than one gun was fired inside the lounge.

Roughly 300 more students will be joining Hamilton public school board's virtual school as more COVID-19 cases appear in the region and as Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is set to proceed with its second reorganization of the year.

David Braley, who owned three Canadian Football League franchises including the B.C Lions, died Monday morning at age 79.

Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff posted photos on social media that showed him standing packed together in a group of 40 people. Nobody was wearing a mask.

A dog in Ontario's Niagara Region has become the first dog in Canada to test positive for COVID-19. A researcher says there are likely more infected dogs in the country, though pet owners shouldn't be worried.

After being postponed from next year, the Canada Summer Games in Niagara have been rescheduled for August 6 to 21, 2022.

More than $5 million in cannabis has been seized in Norfolk in just over a month.

Annie Horton knows what it's like to lose a loved one to COVID-19. Her brother-in-law, Nick Cordero, died in July following severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus.

A crowd marched past barriers and toward Caledonia Sunday, bearing signs in support of Six Nations of the Grand River members who have been blocking a nearby housing development.

Four mayors in Halton Region say no new COVID-19 restrictions are needed in the communities they represent because the daily case counts don't warrant a such a clampdown.

The city has seen a total of 1,661 cases so far during the pandemic. Of those, 154 are active, while 1,456 (88 per cent) are resolved.

A third case of COVID-19 has been confirmed at Highview Elementary School and a fifth at St. Mary Catholic Secondary School. Mohawk College is also reporting a new case.

Ontario reported a record 1,042 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, marking the first time cases have surpassed 1,000 a day since the outbreak began in late January.

Investigators say a light-coloured, two-door vehicle was seen passing a home on Locheed Drive around 10 p.m. Saturday when someone inside fired multiple shots.

WestJet says it will begin providing refunds to all its passengers whose flights were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A city committee and the public school board had live streams crash, but continued to hold their meetings — which are supposed to be public — without any way for people to watch. Here's why that's a problem.

A Hamilton care home is being evacuated amid a "deteriorating situation" the city says has become "increasingly untenable and unsafe" for residents and staff.

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board hopes to find $2.8 million and avoid a budget deficit after learning there are 1,756 fewer students enrolled than anticipated during the COVID-19 pandemic. But avoiding a deficit is unlikely.

Ontario Provincial Police cruisers watched from a distance Friday morning as a backhoe dug up a road in Caledonia, Ont., by the entrance to a First Nations land reclamation camp that has put a halt to a planned housing development.

There are three new COVID-19 cases in Hamilton schools, including two in the public school board.

Mel Athulathmudali, the newest member of the Hamilton Police Services board, spoke with the CBC on Thursday. Here's what he had to say about defunding police, events at Pride 2019, racial profiling and more.

A group of BIPOC academics, experts and community leaders that serve equity-seeking communities feel ignored after trying to work with Hamilton Public Health Services (HPHS) all summer to collect and release data that showed how COVID-19 has hit marginalized communities in Hamilton hardest.

A worker at a Fortinos in Burlington has tested positive, says its parent company Loblaw.

Dr. Diana Ahmed was in the midst of a spin class roughly three weeks ago when she looked around and realized she was in a “COVID incubator.”

The most-recent victim of the virus was a man in his late 70s who died in hospital on Tuesday, according to public health.

A fraud and waste hotline in its first year has found the city has lost $202,000, with $100,000 of this being due to fraud.

The gap between the number of affordable homes available in Niagara and those who need them keeps growing. According to a Brock University researcher, almost 20,000 additional apartment units will be needed by 2041 to meet the demand.

Blazing wooden pallets and tires blocked one side of a street leading into a southern Ontario community on Thursday, after a skirmish between police and members of a First Nation land reclamation camp.

The latest positive tests for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board involve four students and a staff member who worked at two schools. The city's Catholic board is also seeing new cases.

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is set to undergo a "massive reorganization" in elementary schools after learning there are 1,700 fewer students enrolled in classes than previously calculated, about half of whom are turning to homeschooling.

The agency says the buildings are in serious disrepair and not suitable for affordable housing.

Public health has directed 15-20 people to immediately self-isolate after someone who was at the Ancaster Sports Centre on the night of Oct. 16 tested positive for COVID-19.

The spokesperson for a Six Nations land reclamation camp that has halted a housing development in Caledonia, Ont., served notice to Ottawa and Ontario on a constitutional question days before an Ontario court judge rules on whether to grant a permanent injunction against the camp.

The number of people who died from the Black Death in the 14th century doubled about every six weeks, while the doubling rate from the Great Plague in the 17th century was every two weeks according to a new study out of McMaster University that researchers say relates to the current pandemic.