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The province is still deciding Anson Place Care Centre in Hagersville is one of the homes where military personnel will arrive to help with staffing and medical care.

Nearly half of the people who are confirmed to have COVID-19 in Hamilton have recovered, while the city added another 10 people overnight to its coronavirus caseload.

Muslim families will be separated for Ramadan this year because of COVID-19 and some are seeing it as a test of faith.

Students are deciding what to do with prom dresses and whether they should stay another year in high school as graduation ceremonies have been cancelled.

Canadian Broadway star Nick Cordero's recent leg amputation due to complications from COVID-19 is an example of a constellation of things that can go wrong during severe bodily infections, say doctors.

Hamilton's COVID-19 operations centre will decide whether to temporarily close James Street North so pedestrians have more space, but councillors warn that it will probably say no.

Hamilton police have laid nine by-law charges on a pop-up scrap business, which they say sold stolen items and operated as a non-essential business amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 are leading to potentially frightening privacy violations, says one Brock University expert. Here's how we stop it.

Hamilton health officials have issued orders to 43 retirement and long-term care homes, requiring them to improve infection controls in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 or face consequences.

Join our Instagram live on Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. with two-time Canadian Olympian Reid Coolsaet, as the marathoner delivers some great advice on how to stay fit under the COVID-19 lockdown.

Correctional officers at the Niagara Detention Centre said masks would keep both inmates and staff safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Projections shared by provincial health officials Monday suggest the peak community spread of the virus may have been less severe than anticipated. Now the question is how can hospitals begin to bring back services?

The woman was struck while crossing the road near King Street East and James Street North around 9 p.m. on April 7.

COVID-19 is making it hard for singles and couples to connected, but dating experts say now is the perfect time to build meaningful relationships without intimacy.

Loblaw says an employee at the Shoppers Drug Mart in the Hamilton Mountain Plaza has tested positive for COVID-19.

A 32-year-old man is facing nine charges after Hamilton police say he set fire to three downtown businesses and caused $100,000 worth of damage.

Atif Kubursi, Professor Emeritus of Economics at McMaster University, says it's hard to believe that the price of any commodity, let alone oil, can dip into negative territory. But that's just what's happened to oil prices.

The COVID-19 pandemic might be wreaking havoc with Brian Jones' off-season conditioning but it's certainly enhancing his musical skills.

COVID-19 has left families fretting at home while the number of cases rises and their loved ones sit isolated in their rooms at long-term care and retirement homes.

Mohawk College has launched an internal investigation after an instructor encouraged students to ignore physical distancing measures.

About 240 residents are asking Hamilton city council to temporarily close James Street North so people have more space to walk during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Join our Facebook live on Wednesday at noon with Dr. Zain Chagla an infectious disease physician at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and an associate professor of medicine at McMaster University.

Anson Place Care Centre is one of the deadliest outbreaks of COVID-19 in the province, and Haldimand-Norfolk's medical officer of health says it's likely not over.

The Norfolk County Fire Department saved a man with mobility issues from a ground-level apartment, but were unable to get to the apartment on the second-floor, where a man and dog died in the fire.

Hamilton's Victoria Day fireworks display has been cancelled, but yard waste collection is back and drive-through COVID-19 testing has begun as the city continues to balance what events and services to offer during the pandemic.

Environment Canada is warning power outages are possible today as strong northwesterly winds whip through Hamilton, Burlington and the Niagara Region.

Mark VanderVeen and his team at Beamville, Ont's Clean Works were determined to work at all hours, even over Easter weekend, to get their sanitization equipment out to front-line workers.

Jay Lawrence and Tyler Wall loaded an ambulance with specialized gear Sunday morning and headed out into a city gripped by COVID-19, prepared to spend their entire shift answering Hamilton's highest-risk calls.

The city has a total of 328 cases of the novel coronavirus — 321 of which are confirmed positive and another seven that considered are probable.

The shooting happened near the corner of Oriole Crescent and Britannia Avenue, according to investigators.

The wife of Hamilton-raised, Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway, says her husband will have to have his right leg amputated after suffering complications from the COVID-19 illness.

Tight budgets, understaffing, and limited infection prevention measures have plagued long-term and retirement homes for years, leaving them susceptible to the ravages of COVID-19, according to experts.

Hamilton hospitals are emptier than usual as they wait for COVID-19 patients to come in, but union and association heads warn there may be more than one surge — including one from patients without the virus.

Brant County hasn't had a new COVID-19 case in three days, but its acting medical officer of health says the pandemic is still a marathon.

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board has construction on six new schools paused and renovations on six other schools delayed by COVID-19, but still expects to meet its original deadlines.

The federal government is looking for shovel-ready infrastructure projects to kick start the post-COVID-19 economy, and Hamilton's mayor says he knows of just the one — light rail transit.

McMaster University has launched two COVID-19 funds — one to help students and another to bolster research — and pledges to match the first $100,000 raised for both initiatives.

Niagara Health officials are accepting homemade masks from locals as supplies run low but aren't sure what to do with them. Unions and associations think they shouldn't use them at all and blame the provincial government for not providing enough personal protective equipment.

When Hamilton Health Sciences surgeon John Harlock got the call that he had likely been exposed to COVID-19, his wife Hayley immediately worried about the health of their three children.

Police carried out two search warrants and found knives, $2,560 worth of cocaine and nearly $3,000 in cash in two rooms at the Budget Inn.

Brant County OPP is looking for someone it says drew a swastika and other graffiti on the cenotaph in Paris, Ont.

Hamilton has selected Waubgeshig Rice's book about a northern Anishinaabe community as the city's must-read novel for 2020.

Ontario reported 514 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, a six per cent increase that brings the provincial total to nearly 9,000 since the outbreak began in late January.

Nearly 900 foreign-trained doctors across Canada have joined a Facebook group, created by a Hamilton-based researcher, asking to be placed on the frontlines of the pandemic.

A local law firm offers free will and power of attorney planning for frontline workers during COVID-19 as uncertainty looms.

A Hamilton man trapped in Nepal during the COVID-19 shutdown has returned home.

The store on Rymal Road closed Monday to clean the building after discovering an employee tested positive for COVID-19. Management says the employee hasn't been in the store since April 9 and didn't display symptoms while working.

Here's the latest updates on COVID-19 in Hamilton, including the city's 10th virus-related death.

Small businesses already have narrow profit margins. For many, COVID-19 has evaporated them.

Hamilton Public Health has issued orders at 31 residential care facilities it says weren't doing enough to stop the spread of COVID-19 —directing them to make changes to improve infection controls or face consequences.