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Kia Nurse of Hamilton hit the game-winning shot with 21 seconds left on the clock to lift the Canberra Capitals to their second consecutive Australian women's basketball league title on Wednesday.

Dr. Zain Chagla, infectious disease physician at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, takes your questions and comments, this Thursday, March 5, at noon on the coronavirus outbreak.

Mackenzie Hughes never lost faith in his game, even as he struggled through five consecutive missed cuts to start 2020. But Hughes' troubles paled in comparison to the suffering of his friend Daniel Meggs, who died from cancer at the age of 29 on Feb. 23, three weeks before his wife's due date.

Martin started the expedition on Sunday along Lake Erie near Buffalo. To make the trip possible, she sold her home and plans on spending roughly $20,000 to circumnavigate all the great lakes.

Hamilton Public Health and city hospitals have been planning and preparing for coronavirus for weeks. While dozens of people have been tested locally, so far none of their results have come back positive for COVID-19.

A devastating base jump accident turned adrenaline junkie Lonnie Bissonnette from one extreme sport to another — para-bobsledding. At 55, he's dominating the sport.

Hearing begins for Const. Jeff Todoruck who arrested a local journalist on scene of a fatal accident in 2017.

Parking in Hamilton is about to get more expensive, but the city will soon introduce an app to make it a little easier for people to pay.

The newspaper staff will continue to work there for several months while MIP plans a major renovation of the building.

Hamilton city councillors have turned down spending $292,500 this year, and $877,660 over three years, to pay its arena workers, summer students and other part-time employees a living wage.

In what appear to be major concessions to teachers' unions, the Ontario government is backing down on class size increases and e-learning requirements in the midst of a contentious round of bargaining that has seen multiple rotating strikes.

Hamilton families are divided about whether COVID-19, which has infected 29 Canadians, will keep spreading and become an imminent threat.

The fog is expected to lift later on in the morning, but in the meantime those on the road are cautioned to slow down, leave extra travel time and drive according to the weather conditions.

A man has died of his injuries following a shooting near Portofino Place around 10:45 p.m. Monday, according to police.

Hamilton's Muslim community visited the Mountain Mosque on Monday evening to share their stories about bullying to a review panel created by Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board.

A woman has been arrested and is charged in relation to the missing donkey, police say

Two women were, police say, forced to work in the sex trade industry.

The test results for the undergraduate student, who developed flu-like symptoms after travelling to Italy over the reading week, came back negative, said the university in an update posted on its website Monday morning.

Students taking part in a "Hack the Plastics" event at the University of Waterloo spent the weekend dreaming up ways to mitigate the environmental damage caused by single-use plastics.

Investigators say the four-year-old Mammoth Jackstock is named named "Royal Major League" and was used for breeding.

The Highway 6 bypass has been blocked since Feb. 24.

Sungjae Im is tireless, and no longer winless. The 21-year-old South Korean started fast and finished stronger Sunday, winning The Honda Classic by one shot over Mackenzie Hughes for his first career PGA Tour victory in his 50th attempt.

McMaster University says the undergraduate student was in the Burke Science Building on Feb. 25 and says their COVID-19 results will come in this week.

A Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement to acknowledge land title rights established more than 20 years ago in a Supreme Court decision.

The student is an undergraduate who lives outside of Hamilton and sought medical attention after experiencing flu-like symptoms upon returning from a trip to Europe, says the university.

The Erie County sheriff's department adopted the dogs from a St. Catharines shelter to work in the drug enforcement unit.

The Ministry of Education $1.57 million into the project, which will run in eight school boards. The grad coaches will act as mentors and advisors for black students.

It's easy to imagine someone in the early 1900s, when the First World War had ended and Prohibition raged, walking the dark, cavernous underground of Hotel Hanrahan.

We've got some suggestions on how you can spend this leap year's extra day in the city.

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a set of "fish hooks" capable of catching the new coronavirus and quickly released it to the international community in hopes of helping health scientists determine how it's spreading.

An Ontario technology company claims it has developed the first-ever device capable of objectively and accurately measuring a person's cannabis impairment by reading their brainwaves.

Two senior government officials told CBC News they couldn't say whether the revised plates will look the same as the current blue plates, which have been blasted for visibility issues.

A common and highly resilient bacterial strain can be eliminated by an element produced by cannabis plants, discover researchers.

"Intense snowfall" and strong winds are forecast to blast through Hamilton Friday, reducing visibility and affecting the afternoon commute.

Akil Thomas of the Peterborough Petes, who scored the tournament winning goal for Canada at the IIHF World Junior Championships in January and Bryce Montgomery, of the London Knights talk with the CBC's Paige Martin about the racism they've faced growing up in hockey.

Public high school teachers in Hamilton are off the job today along with teachers at more than a dozen Ontario boards as part of their union's campaign of rotating one-day strikes.

For the first time ever, Hamiltonians can get married and renew their vows in city council chambers.

It took hours of debate to get there, including talk of toothpaste versus maxi pads, and the threat of people taking more menstrual products than they need.

Det. Const. Rebecca Moran spoke with the CBC's Conrad Collaco about her first few weeks as the Hamilton police liaison to the LGBTQ+ community. She talked about her role in building trust between the police and the community after several disturbing events.

Halton police say they've seen at least 52 catalytic converters thefts since October 2019 and Hamilton police have seen 66 incidents in December 2019 and January 2020 alone.

Four people have been arrested, police say, who occupied the rail tracks near Bayview Junction in Hamilton in a Wet’suwet’en solidarity protest earlier this week.

The Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion (HCCI) will continue its black youth mentorship program in local public schools.

Nickolos 'Fox' Farrell competed in the Olympics, but needed a new focus. He turned to local, black youth and is helping them learn self-defence and anti-bullying strategies.

Things are not as they appear in the twisty Niagara Falls-set thriller Disappearance at Clifton Hill, in which a decades-old mystery lures a prodigal daughter home to exorcise old demons.

First responders say the grey Chevrolet Monte Carlo didn't turn in time and went airborne, rolling into Lake Erie and landing on its roof in about a metre of water.

The westbound 403 lanes between Garden Avenue and Wayne Gretzky Parkway opened at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday evening after a crash that saw a car ripped in half.

The federal government says it has money to put into Hamilton's light rail transit (LRT) system, but the city's mayor says it's up to the province to officially ask for it.

The city's latest drug strategy community report reveals substance use rates are up "across the board" with the number for opioid, alcohol and meth use all continue to climb, as are emergency room visits for overdoses.

All that snow could make driving difficult, says the warning, so commuters are being cautioned to prepare for changing road conditions.

Block Parent, a popular crime prevention program years ago, might come back to the Hamilton area with the help of a residents rallying to tackle child safety issues in the community.