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Students across Hamilton, Niagara and Burlington will be out of class Friday as the province's four largest teachers unions plan to carry out a joint one-day strike.

The Canadian Premier League announced Thursday its second season will open April 11 and end Oct. 3. Each club will play 28 games — 14 at home and 14 away — during a regular season that ends Oct. 3.

The unpredictable water near Peacock Point in Haldimand County has caused trouble for the underwater search and rescue unit who waited from Sunday to Wednesday before being able to get into the lake.

At about 7:40 p.m. on Wednesday, officers received a call from a home near Shakespeare Avenue and Cayuga Street close to Mohawk Drive and Scott Street West.

It was rare to see black hockey players in the 1950s, especially in rural Ontario. Unless you were in Mount Forest. Three black men were recruited to join the small-town Redmen team, where the trio dazzled packed arenas.

The Hamilton-based steel producer said Wednesday that it lost $24 million or 27 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with net income of $110 million or $1.23 per diluted for final quarter of 2018.

LGBTQ residents raised concerns last year about some of Cardus's past published material.

Hamilton 100 will submit the second phase of its bid. The city will endorse it, despite concerns about how much it will cost.

Ontario's police watchdog has laid a sexual assault charge on a Burlington OPP officer after an incident in Aurora, Ont. north of Toronto.

Hosting the Commonwealth Games could cost about $1.4 billion. The chair of the Hamilton 100 committee says it's worth every penny. On Thursday at 1:15 p.m. Jasper Kujavsky explains, during our Facebook Live, why he thinks it makes sense to spend so much money on an amateur sporting event.

Tom Salisbury didn’t think much of his chest cold when he got it in January 2014. He would later learn it was the first symptom of a rare disease that could have killed him.

The City of Burlington will spend about $250,000 to find a new brand it says will build local pride and help the city "compete globally for talent and investment."

Hamilton's conservation authority will decide next month whether to put a fence around the city's most dangerous selfie spot.

The search for the 9-year-old who was pulled into Lake Erie by a strong wave on Saturday has been extensive, including icebreakers, drones from locals and helicopters from the OPP and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Inch Hammond Business Lawyers will have to compensate an accountant from Oakville, his spouse and a company linked to them after one of their lawyers failed to provide competent legal services.

The Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) and the Ford government return to the bargaining table Wednesday — but if the parties can't strike a deal, the union plans to launch rotating strikes next week.

The Ontario NDP says a pilot project from the Ford government that will see employment services in three parts of the province contracted out could cause cuts and risks turning social services into a "cash cow."

Investigators say a woman "disguised in all-black clothing" came into a home on Park Road North around 11:15 p.m. Sunday and brandished a firearm.

A winter weather advisory has been issued for the two cities, warning four to eight centimetres of snow is expected to pile up as light freezing rain continues to roll over the region.

A family member says the nine-year-old boy who was swept out to Lake Erie and presumed drowned had tried to save his friend.

The hospital plans on having a total of 20 spaces as it sees the demand for emergency mental health services rise by 10 per cent each year, mainly due to meth and opioid use.

A nine-year-old boy is presumed drowned, police say, after being swept into Lake Erie on Saturday afternoon.

Police say they have arrested Jamie Dryden, who was accused of shooting at officers in Hamilton and using a woman as a shield to avoid arrest.

The search for a nine-year-old boy who fell through ice in Lake Erie has turned into a recovery mission, Ontario Provincial Police say.

Nirenberg is remembered by McMaster University professors for his elegant, transformative, and influential contributions to partial differential equations.

Peter Corbière, a Niagara-on-the-Lake man at the centre of a 2018 CBC News investigation, was arrested on Thursday by Niagara police.

The last weekend of Winterfest, a visit from NHL legends and a giant bouncy castle festival in Ancaster are just some of the things to do during the long weekend.

There are no injuries and the fire marshal will investigate due to the magnitude of the blaze, but the cause of the fire doesn't appear to be suspicious at this time.

Most stores will be closed on Monday and transportation will operate on modified schedules.

The contaminant levels in Chedoke Creek are no worse than they were before 24 billion litres of sewage and stormwater spilled into the creek, a new report says. And dredging won't help.

Hamilton police have appointed an openly LGBTQ officer to work with the local queer and trans communities as part of an effort to build trust.

Firefighters in St. Catharines, Ont. have been told to turn down the heat on their steamy annual calendar or risk losing municipal backing for the fundraiser.

Adam Booth, 35, got his full acquittal on Dec. 11, 2019 — three years and a month after he was sentenced to 12 years in prison minus time served for charges including robbery and aggravated assault.

A former Hamilton undercover police officer faces a number of Police Services Act charges after he used "profane and insulting language" and contacted the friends and acquaintances of a city councillor, says a report from the Office Of Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD).

The Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion (HCCI) is fighting back against the notion it violated privacy rules by sharing information gathered during a session involving students at Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School in 2018.

CN Rail and Via Rail are shutting down huge sections of their railway systems as Indigenous blockades continue to cripple the country's transportation network.

Hamilton city councillors have put off making a decision for another six months about clearing all of the city's sidewalks after winter storms, a move one councillor sees as a way to avoid dealing with the subject.

Police seized drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine following two separate investigations into a suspicious vehicle and a search of a home in Grimsby.

Freeman was reported missing from the Lynwood Charlton Centre in Flamborough in October 2017. He was found dead in a wooded area roughly 35 metres from the home on seven months later.

The Hamilton-Wentworth School Board's new bullying review panel begins its work this week. Two members of that panel take your questions and hear your comments on what we need to do to stop bullying in Hamilton schools.

The mother of a teenager who died in a crash on the Red Hill Valley Parkway is "heartbroken" no victims of collisions will be allowed to fully participate in an inquiry into the deadly road.

Wind chills as cold as -24 degrees will greet Hamilton commuters on Friday morning.

GreenMantra Technologies in Brantford is one of three companies that will get $1 million from the federal government to help reduce plastic waste from food packaging and construction.

Parents stood up, one by one, to voice their complaints about what their children have endured, venting months-worth of fears and tension before a crowd of about 90 at Westmount Secondary School.

Hundreds of students at a high school in Hamilton's lower city walked out of classes Wednesday to protest the school board pausing a mentorship program for black youth.

The inquiry into the Red Hill Valley Parkway (RHVP) has ruled applicants who were injured or lost loved ones in crashes on the deadly road will not be granted full participation rights.

Jayden Pitter, 20, is facing a long list of charges including discharging a firearm with intent and careless use of a firearm, according to investigators.

The 22-year-old passenger faces 11 charges including carrying a concealed weapon while the 20-year-old driver from Dundas faces five charges including possession of cocaine with the intent to sell.

The researchers merged two compounds — the newly-found corbomycin and the lesser-known complestatin — and found they’re able to kill bacteria like the MRSA superbug by catching them ‘in a cage.’

Ontario's four largest teachers unions say they will stage a joint one-day strike across the province on Feb. 21 if there's no breakthrough in contract talks with the Doug Ford government.