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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.

From NO COVID to OKBOOMER, the Ontario government denied thousands of personalized licence plate requests over the past year. Here's the full list and its highlights.

Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board has approved a staggered reopening during the first two weeks of schools to teach students proper COVID-19 protocols as they return to class during the pandemic.

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is creating at least one new, online elementary school to teach students who opt for eLearning as classes reopen in September during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hamilton's transit system is returning to full capacity in September, but at summer levels, after months of fewer riders because of COVID-19.

The City of Hamilton wants to honour local health-care workers with its next round of utility box wraps, and it wants people to vote for the designs they like best.

The tenant rights group wants the city to copy a bylaw from the west coast that makes landlords responsible for people's accommodations during renovations and ensures they have a place to come home to once they're done.

The provincial Special Investigations Unit won't charge two Niagara officers after a man in mental distress was shot on New Year's Eve and died the next day.

Hamilton residents who tested for COVID-19 and local civic rights groups are speaking out about Hamilton police accessing health information 10,293 times between April 17 and July 20.

The blockades went up following arrests at the McKenzie Meadows residential development. Demonstrators set up camp and began occupying the site 32 days ago, saying it's unceded Haudenosaunee territory and renaming it 1492 Land Back Land.

Join our Facebook live on Friday at 12:30 p.m. with former Hamilton Ticat and Saskatchewan Roughrider Pete Dyakowski, winner of the CBC's Canada's Smartest Person competition in 2012. Should the feds have done more to save the CFL season? We'll ask Pete. What do you think?

Hamilton Police Services are asking the public to help them find a man they say assaulted a cyclist Monday evening.

Police in Niagara Region are looking for a suspect in the alleged sexual assault of two 16-year-old girls.

Charles Madder needed major surgery after his nose was ripped off while rescuing people at Albion Falls. Now he's an ambassador for a Hamilton General Hospital fundraiser.

Haldimand County Mayor Ken Hewitt says he's "tired of hearing about stolen land" and is calling on the OPP to enforce court injunctions against demonstrators camping a residential development near Caledonia.

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is "seriously considering" a staggered start to school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Catholic board is doing the same.

Parents and caregivers of Hamilton public schools are frustrated as they struggle to access the school's online portal to complete important documents for schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Six Nations police say they are investigating a fire at home on Six Nations that according to elected council belongs to Chief Mark Hill.

The city and Good Shepherd will dismantle a temporary homeless shelter at FirstOntario Centre next month and move it to an old school on Main Street East — and some neighbours aren't happy about it.