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Hamilton Police Service says a 15-year-old is dead and an 18-year-old has been charged following a Friday collision on the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway.

The Saturday night collision caused the pickup truck to roll and burst into flames, police say, killing all inside. Police say two others have been taken to hospital.

An inquest into the deaths of six people who died while in custody at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre, or after transfer to hospital from the jail, will begin next month. On Friday, Dr. Karen Schiff, the regional supervising coroner for Hamilton and Niagara, announced the inquest will begin Nov. 25. It is expected to last 15 days and hear from about 15 witnesses, she said in a news release.

Ontario's alcohol regulator has given notice to a restaurant in St. Catharines that its liquor licence will be suspended for several violations of the Liquor Licence and Control Act, 2019 (LLCA) and its regulations.

A Hamilton man who stabbed his 16-year-old cousin at a family barbecue in 2023 has been found guilty of second-degree murder, in a decision delivered by Ontario Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman on Friday.

"Remarkable" longtime Hamilton resident Ann Konkel passed away on Sept. 27.

An alleged serial killer travelled "on foot and public transit" from one attack to another last week in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Hamilton, according to police. Court records show Sabrina Kauldhar, 30, has been convicted of violent offences in the past.

A 52-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after a man was killed in St. Catharines on Thursday, Niagara Regional Police say.

A construction worker has been critically injured following a collision on Highway 403 in Burlington, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say.

Independent Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama says she'd be open to returning to the Ontario NDP, but the ball is in the party's court.The party is studying possible "electoral scenarios" in the Hamilton Centre riding Jama represents, including bringing the former NDP member of provincial parliament back into the fold a year after expelling her.

The upbound (southbound) lane on Beckett Drive, otherwise known as the Queen Street Access, will be closed for six weeks starting Oct. 15, the City of Hamilton has announced.

Expect some facility closures this Thanksgiving Monday in Hamilton with some services remaining open, but with limited scheduling.

Hamilton city council has given staff the green light to plan for online voting for Ward 4's public school trustee. The city clerk says whether online voting goes ahead depends on if all the work needed to put it in place can be done before the Jan. 6 byelection.

An inquest into five deaths at the Niagara Detention Centre will start later this month, and an inquest into the 2020 death of a man shot by Hamilton police will begin in November.

Award-winning journalist and member of the Fort William First Nation, Tanya Talaga, will be in Hamilton on Oct. 10 to discuss her new book and docuseries, The Knowing, with director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute, Dr. Savage Bear.

Take your pick at a nearby fall fair, a bunny-fest, and many other events going on in Hamilton and surrounding areas this Thanksgiving weekend.

Another beluga whale has died at Marineland and four years into a provincial probe, Ontario's solicitor general is saying little about the investigation's progress.

Hamilton residents have reported more soot covering their properties to the Ontario government, only for the problems to continue. A city pilot program aims to receive and react to complaints related to industrial and commercial dust, dragout, noise and odour using a dedicated bylaw staffer.

Yugali Bharote starts her day in her kitchen in Burlington, Ont., preparing lunch boxes for her sons bound for school - but she doesn't stop there. She then prepares almost a dozen tiffins - lunch boxes - for customers in who have subscribed to her homemade meals.

Scurvy is a disease that likely conjures up images of sickly sailors from hundreds of years ago, but doctors in Canada are being warned to look out for the condition now, as a result of growing food insecurity.

Police believea 53-year-old man, was struck by a vehicle whilewalking onSilver Bay Roadsouth of the Friendship Trail in Port Colborne, Ont., sometime between 10 p.m. ET and midnight on Saturday.

Hamilton's Mario Bilich, 77 and Niagra'sLance Cunningham, 47, are being remembered as loving fathers after police announced both men were killed in random attacks over the past week.

A 30-year-old Toronto woman has been arrested and charged with murder in the separate deaths of three people in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Hamilton, according to Toronto police.

After a fire Monday morning that caused millions" of dollars in damage, Hamilton's Wentworth Sports Complex says it will be closed until at least the spring." Its management also says the fire was started by a spark caused during renovations to the building.

Five weeks ago, two-time league MVP Bo Levi Mitchell wore overalls to a gathering with Hamilton Tiger-Cat teammates, as a lark. After a terrible start to the season the team hasn't lost since.

A 33-year-old man from Welland, Ont. was arrested on Monday after police say he strangled and hit his Shih Tzu then assaulted police officers.

A hockey game involving players seven and eight years old came to a halt at a Hamilton arena after parents and at least one coach became involved in a brawl behind the boards.

The child, from the Brantford area, was in hospital last month after acquiring rabies in northern Ontario.

Hamilton police are investigating after a couple's home and a truck were spray-painted with homophobic graffiti, in what's being considered a hate-motivated crime. "I'm scared for my safety and my partner's safety," says Kevin Harris, adding there have been a series of incidents in recent weeks.

Coun. Cameron Kroetsch says the agreement between the city and Aeon Studio Group for development of the Barton-Tiffany lands has ended and the film production hub won't being going ahead.

A vending machine at Hamilton General Hospitalwill soon make naloxone,needles and inhalation kits availablewith the push of a button at any time.

Much has changed for Scott Milanovich and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats since their last meeting with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Hamilton won two awards for projects monitoring stormwater and wastewater. Nick Winters, the city's head of water, describes the awards - issued by trade publication Water Canada in August - as recognition among our industry peers that there are good things happening in Hamilton."

McMaster Children's Hospital says it will resume tonsil and adenoid surgeries next week, almost four months after two children died following the procedure.

A Zamboni fire at the Wentworth arena in Hamilton's west end has left the triple-rink complex with a collapsed roof and heavy fire damage in parts, adding up to more than a million dollars in damage, according to the Hamilton Fire Department.

The early morning sun rose over a mixed group of about 100 Indigenous and non-Indigenous people taking part in a sunrise ceremony marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Hamilton's West Harbour.

Three Ontario residents face charges over what Halton Regional Police Service called a pair of suspicious fires" in Burlington, Ont. late last year.

A Mennonite church in Kitchener, Ont.,among four in Canadapaying reparations to Indigenous people on whose land their church buildings are located, says its payments arepart of efforts to "repair past wrongs." Elder Adrian Jacobs says three Winnipeg churches also followed Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church's approach.

Juravinski Hospital has made a "spectacular" turnaround to free up ambulances and paramedics, says Coun. Tom Jackson. Now other area hospitals are looking to follow suit.

As two people in an assault case face court processes over a water-gun incident in Simcoe, Ont., one says he was intentionally sprayed after years of racially fuelled harassment by a group of neighbours, while the other says it was nothing but an accident.

World leaders called superbugs, which are resistant to antibiotics, "an urgent global health threat" this week. Here's what patients and doctors say should change.

The CFL is showing off Indigenous redesigns of team logos for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Robyn Bourgeois, who's Cree from Treaty 8 territory, is vice-provost of Indigenous engagement at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont., and the granddaughter of a residential school survivor. Bourgeois offers these thoughts on how non-Indigenous people can mark Truth and Reconciliation Day.

About 165 acres of marsh in Norfolk County, Ont., will enjoy long-term protection now that the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has purchased land at Turkey Point, the organization's southwestern Ontario program director said.

A bat in Brantford, Ont., tested positive for rabies and is suspected to have bitten someone, the Brant County Health Unit says. That person is not showing rabies symptoms, the health unit says in a news release, and is being treated for exposure to the virus.

Hamilton council has officially approved $7 million in spending to set up and run the tiny home site that'll serve as the city's first outdoor shelter, and will look to the federal government for reimbursement.

A spokesperson for Ontario's Ministry of Labour shared how a worker died there this month. They said the investigation into their death continues.

Carolynn Mayers and James Durban say their Fort Erie, Ont., house's foundation isn't strong enough to hold up their house and they have no choice but to rebuild from scratch.

The Ontario NDP's executive has passed a motion to study electoral scenarios" in the Hamilton Centre riding that will include nominating Independent MPP Sarah Jama as the party's candidate.

TradePort International Corporation, which runs John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport, says it will expand passenger terminals, upgrade cargo facilities, and airplane taxiways and achieve net-zero carbon by 2030.