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The number of resolved COVID-19 cases in Hamilton continues to grow, hitting 247 Wednesday — nearly 60 per cent of the total cases recorded in the city so far.

The service needs to better understand how the situation that forced 26 other medics to self-isolate in the midst of a pandemic was allowed to occur, said Chief Kevin Smith, Wednesday, promising a review that will "highlight opportunities for improvement."

Provincial police have identified the man who died after being pulled from an apartment fire in Simcoe as Donald Adams.

Seeing an 1860 house demolished inspired Lloyd Ferguson to ask to register 40 properties along Wilson Street East.

The maker of Nutella, Ferrero Rocher and Kinder products says it had to close down its Brantford, Ont., plant after employees tested positive for COVID-19.

With large crowds not allowed for the foreseeable future, it's unclear when Ontario festivals will be back and how they make money in the meantime.

Hamilton hairdressers offer tips to people trying to cut their own hair.

Join our Facebook live on Wednesday at noon with Anthony Marco, president of the Hamilton District Labour Council. He'll talk with us about how we keep frontline workers safe during the pandemic. Are employers and government doing enough?

A fire burned three homes to the ground and damaged another in Brantford on Wednesday morning

While today's figures represent a considerably lower daily growth rate than what the province has typically seen throughout April, public health officials have cautioned against inferring trends from any single data point.

The average temperature in Hamilton during April was two degrees colder than normal at 4.8 C instead of 6.7 C.

Police say they've recovered some of the medical devices that were stolen from a community centre in St. Catharines earlier this year.

While hospitals were scrambling for ventilators, masks and gloves in preparation for a COVID-19 surge, many, including St were also installing baby monitors in emergency departments and intensive care units.

A Niagara paramedic found out he had tested positive for COVID-19 while on the job, a revelation that led to every staff member in the station immediately pulling on PPE and eventually caused 26 other medics to go into self-isolation in the middle of a pandemic.

Friends and family of HSR drivers have been making them masks, but the new distance restrictions help. "As far as I'm concerned, we feel protected," says the union president.

"It's a disappointing figure but not surprising," says Hamilton's mayor.

Police say Giorgio Barresi was shot multiple times after being confronted in his driveway on March 2. The suspect then walked back to a vehicle parked nearby and drove away.

A showman and all-star with the Milwaukee Wave, Canadian Ian Bennett is a marquee goal-scorer in the Major Arena Soccer League. Still, the 36-year-old Hamilton native flies under the radar north of the border.

A new report says Hamilton doesn't have to do any remediation to Cootes Paradise after 24 billion litres of sewage and stormwater leaked into the water over four years.

Restarting city services will be more complex and time-consuming than shutting them down when COVID-19 hit, says the head of Hamilton's emergency operations centre.

A Hamilton couple is connecting helping lonely people who can't socialize during COVID-19 with professional musicians who perform their favourite songs for them.

Grocery store workers say the pandemic has increased tension amongst customers, some of whom aren't listening to precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Investigators say a 24-year-old woman from Flamborough was driving an ATV with her 21-year-old sister sitting behind her when she lost control and the vehicle fell down a ridge causing both women to tumble about 10 metres.

The most recent cases involved an employee in manufacturing services administration whose case was confirmed on April 11 and a "Finished Product Shipping" employee who the company says came into contact with a positive case outside of work and reported having COVID-19 on April 17.

Ontario must see a "consistent two-to-four week decrease in the number of new daily COVID-19 cases" before the government can start loosening restrictions and begin reopening the economy, says a new framework for reopening released by the province.

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.