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Abdalla Hassan was a Hamilton high school student who only came to Canada in the past five years.

Neighbours along the Stoney Creek shore are getting increasingly anxious over three planned condo towers that would be the tallest buildings in Hamilton.

Contract talks between the CFL and its players have turned ugly. The CFL Players' Association has instructed its players not to make travel arrangements to attend training camps when they open May 19.

Jason Fraser, a Peterborough paramedic and chair of the CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario, says the government has not been transparent about the merger.

Two legal recreational dispensaries are set to open in Hamilton — one as soon as this weekend.

Who saw a report showing substandard pavement friction on the Red Hill Valley Parkway? Why didn't they tell Hamilton city council? And did the failure to do so put drivers at risk?

A Burlington man is facing charges after phoning 911 with a false report of a woman being shot in his residence.

A Hamilton man is facing several charges, police say, after he tried to rob three banks in the city in just two days.

The city has closed sections of the Sherman Access at the Kenilworth Access for bridge maintenance, with additional closures coming next week.

A 20-year-old man is now facing charges in connection with a violent incident at Brock University where two people were stabbed and another was hurt in a struggle.

A father and daughter from the United Kingdom say they feel "threatened" and "scared" after being evicted from a Niagara Falls hotel because they supported striking workers at the city's Rainforest Café while on vacation.

Hamilton police have issued a public warning after an 11-year-old student was twice followed by a man when she was going to and from school this month.

Paramedics are anxious after word the province is looking at cutting 59 ambulance services down to 10.

Fire crews quickly contained the blaze within 30 minutes of arriving on scene at the Colaneri Estate Winery, ensuring the main building was untouched.

Dozens of Hamilton teachers working as consultants and specialists in local schools found out Monday their jobs no longer exist.

A Stoney Creek teen is facing assault and weapons charges after a road rage incident where he allegedly flashed a pellet gun at another driver.

Media officer Const. Jerome Stewart will be demoted to constable second class for 12 months following a joint submission during a Police Services Act hearing Tuesday.

The Ford government plans to merge the 59 local ambulance services in Ontario into just 10, CBC News has learned.

A Norfolk County resident is out $16,000 dollars, Ontario Provincial Police say, after sending cash to buy a vehicle through an online ad.

What started as an investigation into an apparent car crash Monday evening ended with Hamilton police charging three teens with first-degree murder.

People are hooking up more, says a top Hamilton doctor, and not using condoms when they do.

Officers were called to the mall on Upper Wentworth Street around 6 p.m. on April 12 after two witnesses told store staff and a female victim that a man was recording her.

A 28-year-old North York man and a 35-year-old Brantford woman are facing drug-trafficking charges.

The city is changing the look of the city’s downtown garbage containers in an effort to get smokers to stop tossing butts on the street.

It wasn’t the dream-like finish of a year ago, but Krista DuChene did shave eight seconds off her time Monday, completing her third Boston Marathon in two hours 44 minutes 12 seconds. 'Today was more about survival," she says of the humid conditions.

The OPP say a woman in Caledonia contacted them around 1 p.m. on April 11 after she was defrauded thousands of dollars.

Amanda Pocha, an avid runner is organizing an event for women to reclaim the Bruce Trail after Hamilton police say a woman was allegedly assaulted while running April 10.

Larysa Zariczniak recalls memories of growing up at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Hamilton after she watched it burn down on Saturday.

Local officials are scratching their heads over the fate of Hamilton's public health unit after a provincial budget pledge to reduce the number of units from 35 to 10.

Hamilton police say they're continuing to investigate a shooting that took place early Saturday morning in the area of 222 Queenston Road.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Hamilton, warning of significant rainfall.

A rainy forecast for the 123rd Boston Marathon on Monday has Canada's Krista DuChene smiling after she flourished in last year's wet, cold and windy conditions, charging late to finish third overall in the women's race.

"What it means is that the people who exercise power over you can exercise that power negligently and cause you damage and no one will have to pay," says one Toronto lawyer.

Check out new music from Calcedon, Merival and Chopped Liver.

A figure makes their way through an all-white hallway, the wooden floor creaking beneath them with every step, as they approach a harsh spillage of light that begins to envelop and swallow their body.

E-scooters, Onewheels and other personalized electric transportation are coming, but is Hamilton ready?

Police say a woman was jogging along the trail near the Dundurn Stairs around 4 p.m. Wednesday when she heard someone calling out. When the woman stopped she was struck, then assaulted, according to investigators.

A woman in her 30s was pronounced dead in her cell around 7 a.m.

On Thursday evening police were invited to Hamilton's Downtown Mosque for a special town hall to talk about hate crimes, safety and what to do in an active shooter situation.

The Doug Ford government is scrapping an Ontario law that provides financial help to the victims of violent crime.

This is the first of four weekends that will see the Lakeshore West line reduce its train service to hourly from half-hourly.

Officers were called about reports of gunfire at 1526 Upper Ottawa Street around 9 p.m. on April 8 and found a 17-year-old with a gunshot wound.

Finance Minister Vic Fedeli and Ontario's Conservative government delivered its first budget yesterday. While some say the budget doesn't have the deep spending cuts that were predicted, that's not the way Andrea Horwath, leader of the N-D-P, Ontario's official opposition sees it.

A 37-year-old Dunnville man and 29-year-old Hamilton man are facing drug-related charges.

Critics who say the city missed an opportunity to add diversity to the Hamilton Police Services board say they're not letting the matter drop.

It's yet another sure sign the province is committed to paying for Hamilton's $1 billion light rail transit (LRT) system — it's mentioned in the provincial budget.

A host of potential changes to laws governing alcohol sales and consumption and gambling were outlined in the current government’s first budget unveiled on Thursday.

The Progressive Conservatives say the new tax credit will help parents and guardians “fill the gap” between relief already offered to some families by federal and provincial child care expense deductions.

The Ontario PC government’s first budget unveiled Thursday did not include the slash-and-burn spending cuts that some had feared, but did have widespread austerity measures while maintaining the populist bent that has defined many of its early policies.

Nearly a decade removed from a documentary project that saw her make music with the inmates of a men's prison farm in Angola, Louisiana, the Hamilton Juno-winner is now embarking on a similar documentary endeavour.