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Jonathan Bikker, a curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, led the effort to authenticate Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, a painting that had been dismissed by scholars in the 1960s and largely disappeared from public view.

How does one transport an aquatic animal that can grow up to 4.5 metres and weigh up to 1,900 kilograms? Here's a step-by-step guide.

A busy month of expansion signings and a six-round draft has started to bring each PWHL team's roster picture into focus.

The Hamilton Public Library's controversial card-access pilot at its downtown branch dramatically reduced overdoses, drug use and emergency calls, according to a new report presented to the library board Thursday.

A 42-year-old Thorold, Ont., man faces a charge of mischief under $5,000, police say, after a Pride flag flying outside of a Thorold school was damaged.

For National Indigenous Peoples Day this year, organizations are holding events throughout the Hamilton-Niagara area, including festivals, swimming, poetry and art.

The Snowbirds have made what could be one of their last stops in Hamilton for the foreseeable future. The Royal Canadian Air Force aerobatics team, which the government is grounding at the end of this flying season, flew with a B-25 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum on Wednesday.

One of two Welland adults charged with making child sexual abuse and exploitation material is an employee at a St. Catharines agency that works with at-risk youth. Niagara Regional Police said a 40-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman were arrested on Wednesday.

More than 66 per cent of previously-declared vacant units returned to occupancy in year two of Hamilton's vacant unit tax, according to a report before city council's General Issues Committee on Wednesday. That amounts to 288 units.

Six Nations of the Grand River elected council says it "strongly rejects" recent comments by a Brantford, Ont., city councillor who said he doesn't believe in land acknowledgments and thinks they're "virtue signalling."

No injuries were reported among residents or firefighters after a fire near Hamilton's industrial sector heavily damaged a house Wednesday evening.

After a very rainy night, a large swath north of Lake Erie, from the Port Dover area to Fort Erie, is under a wind warning on Thursday morning.

Advocates say Ottawa is ignoring safeguards required by a 2023 Supreme Court ruling, leaving asylum seekers vulnerable to detention and deportation after being denied entry at the border.

St. Catharines regional Coun. Haley Bateman planned to bring forward a motion to require involvement from public health's environmental division in the environmental assessment, cleanup and redevelopment of a former General Motors property. But Niagara's regional government says the proposal falls outside its jurisdiction.

Premier Doug Ford's government is on pace to sit for the fewest days of any Ontario government over the past five decades in a year when voters aren't headed to the polls.And experts warn the decision to shorten the calendar at Queen's Park comes with its strategic benefits - and pitfalls - for the Tories as the legislature settles into a 21-week break.

The federal weather statement said the regions could get rainfall amounts of up to 40 mm starting early Wednesday evening and continuing overnight.

A City of Hamilton public works employee is being credited with helping save residents trapped inside a burning east Hamilton home before firefighters arrived Wednesday morning.

A Hamilton man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting seven women in crimes dating back to 2018. The 37-year-old recorded and posted the assaults online after meeting the women in school, his community, and on dating apps and websites, according to an agreed statement of facts.

A Hamilton hospital says it has become the first in the world to use an experimental exosome treatment on a burn patient, helping a Western University student recover from severe injuries suffered in a London fraternity house fire.

It's been three years since city council directed staff to draft a bylaw that will force landlords to cool units. At a planning committee meeting Tuesday, councillors granted a staff request to defer the draft to September.

Hamilton has taken the first steps toward a moratorium on the development of artificial intelligence data centres. Council's planning committee unanimously supported a motion to have staff draft a bylaw pausing development pending the creation of a local framework for such facilities.

The Association of Ontario Road Supervisors says it has been asking the province to do more to improve safety on rural roads and provide more funding to municipalities to make simple but effective upgrades. The need to address rural road safety is top of mind following the fatal collision in Mapleton Township where five children died.

Dundurn Street S. will be closed between Main and Hill streets from June 22 to the end of July for water main and sewer work, meaning more complications for Hamilton commuters.

The budget will represent the total amount of carbon that can be emitted, in an effort to limit global warming.

Dozens of trees, including memorial trees planted to honour loved ones, were vandalized along a popular trail bisecting the city of Niagara Falls. The city said on Monday that 32 trees were intentionally damaged, some snapped in two, along the length of the 7.5-kilometre trail connecting the city's north and south ends along the length of the Ontario Power Generation hydro canal.

The head of an Ontario tech company proposing an AI data centre for the old Hamilton Spectator building on Frid Street says he understands people's concerns about such facilities and wants to build them better.

Starting next month, Ontarians who are 45 years old will be eligible for colorectal cancer screening. Some patients and advocates question whether the province is ready for the additional pressure on the system, but Ontario says it's boosting capacity.

Her collection Flint and Feather is one of the all-time best-selling volumes of Canadian poetry but Pauline Johnson's complexity as a woman ahead of her time, straddling two cultures is still debated. Scholars have referred to Johnson as both a controversial figure and an early literary activist.

Rural Ontario communities are reeling with grief after a deadly crash on Friday took the lives of five children in one family from a town near Kitchener-Waterloo. The township's mayor says many in the area are turning to their faith to reckon with the loss.

Environment Canada said Sunday Haldimand County and Niagara could experience a severe thunderstorm and heavy rain. The storm watch ended but there is still a flood watch.

Doug Ford appears to be throttling back on aggressive anti-Trump rhetoric with key trade talks looming with the U.S., stepping up a charm offensive aimed at politicians and lobby groups in the mercurial president's orbit.

The Commissioner of Canada Elections (CCE) has fined a Hamilton Centre poll worker $1,250 after he was found to have voted twice in the 2021 federal election.

Five children between the ages of four and 12 were killed in a two-vehicle collision in rural Ontario, according to OPP. Several others, including one infant, were injured.

Several provinces are calling for a constitutional change to give themselves more say in how federal judges are appointed at the provincial level. What does Chief Justice Richard Wagner make of this ongoing political debate over Canada's judicial system? CBC's The House spoke with him earlier this week to get his thoughts.

Rhythm Automotive Canada has been a fixture in St. Catharines, Ont., for 97 years and looks good to be around for at least a few more now that the company has given the plant a vote of confidence with an investment of nearly $80 million coming. The company makes steering and suspension parts, many of which are sent to customers such as Ford and Toyota in the United States.

It was Canada's first point at a men's World Cup, and if that didn't make the players's day unforgettable enough, they did it at home, in front of a crowd filled with faces they knew and people they could name.

The Hamilton/Burlington SPCA's remote community veterinary services team is bringing much-needed care to pet owners in two small communities in northwestern Ontario this weekend.

Cheers erupted at Toronto Stadium as Canada's first FIFA World Cup 2026 match ended in a 1-1 draw with Bosnia-Herzegovina Friday.

Art Crawl will close part of James Street on June 12. Barton Bash will close part of Barton Street on June 13.

A teen content creator who has spent years promoting books to kids online says the Canadian government should focus on how to better protect young people from the harms of social media, before imposing an outright ban.

Bo Levi Mitchell threw a pair of touchdown passes to Kiondre Smith as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats spoiled the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' home opener with a 37-27 victory on Thursday.

The CEO of Sentinel Research and Development in Hamilton says threats from Russian officials won't deter the company from building drones for Ukraine under a newly announced partnership backed by the Canadian government.

Montreal police say Christopher Watts - a 66-year-old sex offender who has been at large - was arrested in Hamilton, Ont., on Tuesday.

The Niagara Falls Illumination Board will light the waterfall with colours for Canada, Mexico and the United States - the three World Cup host nations.

Here's where soccer fans in Niagara can get together to watch the FIFA World Cup. Events in the region include the FIFA World Cup Fan Zone by Niagara Falls and a number of community viewing parties.

Nrinder Nann, Hamilton city councillor for Ward 3, is calling for a pause on the development of large-scale AI data centres until the city develops a new framework to manage such facilities.

Serena Williams's much-hyped comeback to professional tennis at the Queen's Club lasted just one match. The 44-year-old Williams' doubles partner, 19-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko, was forced to withdraw from the draw on Thursday because of a knee injury she sustained in a singles match against Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday.

Festival of Stories, by new production company Indian & Cowboy, is setting up intimate shows in Hamilton this week so people can hear stories from Indigenous creators.

People have a unique opportunity to explore some of St. Catharines, Ont.,'s most iconic buildings, infrastructure and communities this weekend, as the Doors Open event pulls back the curtain on 19 sites. The Saturday event offers free public tours.

Moscow is calling Canada a "warmonger" for signing a drone-production deal with Ukraine and is vowing to publish the address of a Canadian company working with Kyiv.