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Beneath the panes of his greenhouse, Jan VanZanten surveys a sea of sun star flowers rising up from plastic pots, ready to ship but without a buyer. In past years, the Niagara Region grower had no trouble selling to wholesalers by the thousands.

Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger wants to pull together a task force made up of local experts charged with setting the city up for economic recovery after COVID-19.

A Freedom of Information Act request also shows the county spent $672,940.43 on staff severances last year.

Hamilton Public Health reported a total of 401 cases of COVID-19 Sunday, including a new outbreak at the Barrett Centre for Crisis Support.

A Pelham, Ont. councillor and Sobeys store owner at the centre of a controversy around COVID-19 says he would never do anything to endanger the health of others and described the town's handling of the situation as "reckless and irresponsible."

Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced that all publicly-funded schools will remain closed until at least May 31.

Hamilton's COVID-19 situation is improving, but officials say people still need to stay home.

The case is the first for an inmate at the Barton Street jail, but the second overall after a staff member tested positive at the end of March.

The employees of a Niagara-region grocery store have been offered testing for the coronavirus after the owner, who is also a town councillor, contracted the virus.

The province is sending the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) to five long-term care homes struggling with COVID-19, but Anson Place in Hagersville isn't one of them.

The apology comes after Dr. Bart Harvey's response to Premier Doug Ford, who said public health officials plan to test all 78,000 residents and 56,000 health-care workers in long-term care homes.

There are two new cases of COVID-19 on Six Nations of the Grand River territory bringing the confirmed total to 11, Six Nations Health Services Director, Lori Davis Hill, said.

The city's long-term care homes have partnered with Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Healthcare to receive virtual care for elderly residents.

Former Hamilton Tiger-Cats running back and three time Grey Cup champion Dave Fleming has died. He was 76. The Tiger-Cats made the announcement on Thursday. A cause of death was not provided.

A Pelham town councillor, seen coughing and wiping his nose during a recent meeting while sitting about eight feet away from another council member who died suddenly a few weeks later, has tested positive for COVID-19.

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.