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Ontario is embedding in legislation a policy that would give priority for medical residency positions to applicants with a connection to the province. It requires international graduates to have either gone to school or recently lived in Ontario for 2 years.

Two Hamilton teens are wondering why the city's plan to build one much needed basketball court in Gage Park is going to take 25 years.

Shawn Hollingworth, 55, faces two counts of sexual assault following a Niagara Regional Police Service investigation into alleged assaults of two teenagers.

It's been a rainy week in and around Hamilton, and with more showers on the way, Environment Canada says water could pool on roads and in low-lying areas.

U.S. court documents reviewed by CBC News provide a rare glimpse into a cross-border pipeline for crime guns. A former trucker from Florida has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after smuggling handguns into Canada that were later recovered at 10 crime scenes in Ontario and Quebec.

After evacuating students from Hamilton's St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School three days last week for a suspected gas leak, the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board says there was no leak at the school and the smell of gas was coming from somewhere else.

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a news release the officer, Const. Andrew Lawson from the Toronto Police Service, was charged with manslaughter.

Niagara Falls, Ont., Coun. Mike Strange has been found not guilty of domestic assault, a judge in St. Catharines has decided.

Two lanes will be closed starting at 9 p.m. on Thursday from north of the bridge. All lanes will be closed starting at 10 p.m. on Thursday until 6 a.m. on Friday.

One man has died and four people have been taken to hospital, police say, after a crash just east of Binbrook Tuesday night.

Heather Winterstein was an Indigenous woman facing several personal obstacles, factors that raised her risk of having a bad outcome in the health-care system, the Ontario coroner's inquest into her 2021 death in St. Catharines hospital was told.

New Ontario education legislation proposes to count attendance and class participation into high schoolers' final marks and to mandate final exams, drawing a mix of reaction from students, parents and education experts.

Seven people have been hospitalized with salmonella infections in an outbreak linked to Stoney Creek restaurant Piper Arms, Hamilton Public Health said Tuesday. After eating there for 'wing night' on March 31, Kim Gibson says her sister and brother-in-law, both 50, were 'healthy one day and severely sick two days later.'

The Toronto Tempo have signed Canadian guard Kia Nurse ahead of the franchise's inaugural WNBA season, the teamannounced Tuesday.

As people across the country come together to celebrate the filmmakers and stories behind Canadian cinema, a series of special events will be held to honour the life and legacy of Oneida actor Graham Greene.

The inquest into the death of a 24-year-old woman who died of sepsis in a St. Catharines, Ont., hospital in 2021 has heard from an infectious disease specialist. Dr. Dominik Mertz testified that if an infection had been confirmed or strongly suspected earlier, antibiotic treatment could possibly have prevented her conditioning from worsening.

Niagara Falls, Ont., city Coun. Mike Strange pleaded not guilty Tuesday to domestic assault as the trial for the 55-year-old got underway in St. Catharines. Strange was elected in 2014, after representing Canada as a boxer in three Olympics.

The city started the program, called Spring Free Tree Giveaway, in order for residents to "help grow our urban forest," according to development horticultural technician Mike Kraft.

One man is dead and a woman is injured after two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Monday, police said.

FIFA recently announced Niagara Falls will be a final stop in an upcoming cross-country tour to celebrate the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Members of a Hamilton residents' group are calling for a public meeting with the company that runs the Dundas Quarry, following its request to import 38 million cubic metres of soil as part of a "rehabilitation" plan.

After being replaced as chair of the Ottawa Street Business Improvement Area (BIA) during an emergency meeting two weeks ago, Michael Carruth says he feels sick that [he] broke the trust" of his fellow small-business owners when he used about $16,000 of the organization's funds to keep [his] head above water personally."

The annual race took place this Sunday through the 30 km, 15 km, 10 km and five km routes that ended at Pier 8 in Hamilton.

The sit-and-fit shoe store has seen some change in the last 100 years while making an effort to stay in business, developing a niche for narrow and wide sizes that has drawn customers from all over the country.

The Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum is one of 12 historic places across Canada up for $65,000 in cash prizes that could help the museum turn its founder's house into an archival centre.

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal Dofasco says it's decommissioning one of its two remaining coke plants in Hamilton, with "the last push of coke" to be completed April 13. The company says it continues to work toward "long-term decarbonization."

Heather Winterstein's skin was discoloured and she was struggling to control her body in a wheelchair the day she died at the St. Catharines, Ont., hospital, a woman who was waiting to see a doctor that day told a coroner's inquest that began March 30.

Nearly 10,000 participants will take to the streets Sunday for the 132nd running of the Around the Bay Road Race, organizers say.

A rolling shootout between multiple vehicles led to the murder of a 16-year-old in Hamilton last year, police said Friday, tying the death of York Region resident Faizaan Awan in March 2025 to a dispute between two tow-truck companies."

A 21-year-old from Wainfleet, Ont., faces a charge of dangerous driving causing death after he rear ended another driver's car in March, police say.

Days after a teen fell to his death in an abandoned factory, the City of Hamilton says the property owner was in compliance with its bylaws regarding vacant buildings. The property 'has a history' of bylaw enforcement related to preventing tresspassing, the city said.

A triage nurse who assessed Heather Winterstein hours before she died of sepsis in the St. Catharines, Ont., hospital says she had little time with the 24-year-old, telling a coroner's inquest the emergency department staff were overwhelmingly busy, in part due to the pandemic. "Nurses are burned out. Nurses are exhausted," Andrea Demery said several days into the inquiry.

On the day she died of sepsis, Heather Winterstein shouldn't have been placed in the emergency room waiting area at the St. Catharines hospital until she could see a doctor, an emergency medicine expert told a coroner's inquest Wednesday.

In 1957, artist Robert Bateman and biologist Bristol Foster travelled the world in a Land Rover. In a documentary screening this week in Hamilton, the lifelong friends look back on the journey that cemented their desire to defend the natural world.

The PaRx program, an initiative that allows healthcare providers to prescribe nature passes to patients, is now available for Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA) sites.

GO train services between Confederation GO in Hamilton, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls will be back and running on Thursday morning, more than a week after a freight train derailment paused the route. Welland Canal's railway bridge also re-opened this week.

Heather Winterstein didn't show hallmark warning signs of potentially life-threatening sepsis when she went through triage screening the day before she died at the hospital in St. Catharines, Ont., an emergency medical expert told the coroner's inquest for the 24-year-old.

One woman was admitted with a life-threatening condition called exercise-induced or exertional rhabdomyolysis, rhabdo for short.The illness can happen after an intense workout and is when muscle tissue breaks down, leaking enzymes and proteins into the bloodstream. In high amounts, the proteins can damage the kidneys and lead to an imbalance of electrolytes, which can cause dehydration and heart issues.

Hamilton police say a 19-year-old died after he fell through the roof of an abandoned factory.

The Ontario government has announced it plans to change aspects of the role of regional chair in several municipalities, including here in Waterloo region. The biggest change is the regional chair would be appointed by the province and not elected by residents. Regional Coun. Doug Craig raised concerns in February and said he was hopeful it wouldn't happen.

The Ontario police watchdog is investigating after a sexual assault was reported involving a Hamilton police officer at a Cardi B concert on March 31.

Evacuees from Kashechewan First Nation will be displaced from their homes for at least three more months.

The physician who treated Heather Winterstein the day before she died in hospital from a severe reaction to bacterial infection said he may have erred in diagnosing her condition as being due to "social issues." She was discharged and died the next day, after she returned to hospital.

One of the GTA's hospital networks recently held its first AI contest, with the goal of finding ways to improve health care. Trillium Health Partners said it received more than 60 submissions from healthcare staff. The winner of the "AI for Better Health Catalyst Challenge" came from the emergency department.

A fire in the Ottawa Street commercial district on Sunday caused "extensive" damage to a building with commercial and residential units, according to the Hamilton Fire Department.

One person has been taken into custody as investigations continue into a fatal shooting in Brantford, police say.

The Niagara-bound QEW Skyway Bridge will be closed from Tuesday to Friday this week to facilitate rehabilitation work, Ontario's Ministry of Transportation has announced.

Two years after the killing of a suspected drug trafficker in Niagara Falls, Ont. - purportedly targeted by Ryan Wedding's alleged criminal network - police are still trying to unlock the victim's phone and identify more suspects. Details of the case are contained in a new police affidavit.