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Two 28-year-old men face drug charges after Hamilton police say they responded to a weapons call Monday evening.

A group of Hamilton doctors is continuing to call for the city to allow tent encampments during the COVID-19 pandemic. But while the city will look at it again in the next two months, it shows no sign of budging.

No need to stress about an overdue book — Hamilton Public Library is waiving all fines and fees during the pandemic, and ending them for kids and teens.

Union officials say the sacrifices health-care workers made to serve Ontarians during the COVID-19 pandemic are being repaid by the Ford government with a new bill that will strip them of their workplace rights.

The city has sent over 55,000 documents needed for the inquiry after the commissioner chided them for delays last week.

Both cities voted in approval of making mask-wearing in public, indoor spaces mandatory.

A second worker from a Lowe's location in Brantford tested positive for COVID-19 one week after another employee was found to have the virus.

A group of Western University alumni are asking the university to take concrete actions to repair the hurt caused by J. Philippe Rushton, the late psychology professor who fostered anti-Black racism through his teachings in the 1980s and 1990s.

Join our Facebook Live Wednesday at noon with mafia expert Antonio Nicaso. He'll talk about why notorious Hamilton mobster was killed and what it might mean for organized crime in Hamilton and across Canada.

Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA) waterfall areas, with the exception of Spencer Gorge, will reopen to the public on July 15.

The executive director of Grace Villa now says there's no COVID-19 outbreak at the home and that none of its staff members or residents have tested positive for the virus.

A total of 24 health units in Ontario regions will enter Stage 3 of reopening on Friday, July 17 but Hamilton is not among them.

The day after Pat Musitano was killed in Burlington a sign appeared next to the site where the notorious mobster was shot to death. "WITNESS? DASH CAM? CCTV?" it asks, before flashing the number for a police tipline.

For the last four months, Canada's public health experts have been racing to stop the spread of COVID-19 by trying to figure out how everyone is getting it, and whom they may have given it to.

Hamilton Police are looking for any information that could lead to locating 40-year-old Michael Samdass, who has been missing for 10 months.

The Ontario government is investigating an acid leak in Stoney Creek that has been going on for at least a month and draining into Lake Ontario.

A dog died in Simcoe last week, police say, after its owner left it in a hot car.

Officials are investigating how two cargo vessels came to collide in Ontario's Welland Canal on Saturday during what should have been a routine manoeuvre.

Pasquale (Pat) Musitano was killed on Friday in Burlington, Ont. Mafia experts say the notorious Hamilton mobster was living on borrowed time long before the fatal shot was fired.

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Heavy rain falling at 25 to 50 mm an hour is also possible for the Niagara Region, Hamilton, Burlington and Brantford Saturday, according to the weather agency.

A 27-year-old is dead and another person seriously injured following a shooting between King Street and Greenhill Avenue.

Moh Ahmed shattered his own Canadian record in the 5,000 metres at the Portland Intersquad Meet. The 29-year-old from St. Catharines Ont., won the race in 12 minutes 47.20 seconds, bettering his previous mark of 12:53.16 set last summer in Rome.

The city's 297 playground structures are closed, but it's hard to enforce, and families with kids are taking advantage.

Sources familiar with the family tell CBC News that the man killed in a shooting Friday afternoon in Burlington, Ont., is notorious Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano.

One Hamilton man and two teens are charged after a shooting in a laneway on Thursday night.

A former Toronto police officer says McMaster University Security Services special constables and head of the unit, Glenn De Caire, harassed and racially profiled him two and a half years ago. Now, they are embroiled in a human rights complaint.

Hamilton is a step closer to having a bylaw that makes it mandatory for people to wear a mask or face covering indoors when they're in public.

A 17-year-old is facing charges after what Hamilton police say were two unprovoked attacks that involved someone on an e-bike spraying strangers in the face using an aerosol can.

Heightened public interest in police oversight has brought more scrutiny into the role of the Special Investigations Unit and the criticisms levied against it.

Hamilton's board of health may vote on Friday to make the wearing of masks mandatory inside indoor public spaces. Dr. Catherine Clase, an associate professor of medicine at McMaster University and a nephrologist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, explains why she thinks it's a good idea.

It's a revelation that debunks long-held perceptions about treatment and is especially timely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hamilton home prices are up nearly 10 per cent despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey by Royal LePage has found.

Hamilton's board of health is set to vote Friday to enact a new bylaw making it mandatory to wear masks or face coverings in enclosed public settings, as members of the public once again frequent businesses and other facilities as part of the COVID-19 reopening process.

Environment Canada issued a special air quality statement Thursday morning for Burlington and surrounding areas.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is investigating the shooting that happened in a convenience store parking lot at Cannon Street East and Gage Avenue North.

"We have to look at the threat we are facing and the degree of infringement," says Kevin MacKay, a Mohawk College sociology professor.

The decision represents a large financial loss for public transit, but students won't be back in class in fall, so won't be looking to use the bus.

Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the city as well as for Niagara, Brantford and Burlington. It warns the current conditions could lead to storms capable of producing strong winds, large hail and rain.

Hamilton's Public Works Committee has voted in favour of a one-year pilot projects that will see two photo radar cameras rotate through 12 school and community safety zones across the city.

You can visit most of Hamilton's waterfalls once they reopen next Wednesday, but Tews Falls, Webster Falls and Dundas Peak will stay closed.

Join our Facebook Live Thursday at noon with Dr. Catherine Clase, an associate professor of medicine at McMaster University and a nephrologist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. She and her team looked through a century of research on cloth masks to find out how effective they have been in the past.

The Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre is allowing personal visits again, a move the province says isn't related to a recent hunger strike.

More applicants to McMaster University's medical school come from higher income neighbourhoods, a study says, which means doctors aren't reflecting the people they're treating.

Body-worn cameras bring more transparency, says writer Leigh Taylor, and that helps police and the people they serve.

The Ontario government must release information about the prevalence of COVID-19 in provincial jails as well as what preventative measures are taken to curb the spread, an activist coalition said on Tuesday.

A home-owner in Selwyn Township, north of Peterborough, Ont., reported an unwelcome visitor in the backyard.

Niagara regional police say that a 19-year-old jumped into the water at Balls Falls and didn't resurface.

An external police service will be asked to investigate after a video of an arrest in Waterloo region surfaced online recently.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a man was shot during an interaction with Hamilton police near Tim Hortons Field.