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A "sugar sweetened beverages levy" or what is more commonly known as a soda tax, is included in a list of Ontario caucus priorities obtained by CBC News.

Hamilton police say a man was allegedly stabbed to death Saturday night at an apartment downtown. The death marks the city's fourth homicide of the year.

The agreement to end steel and aluminum tariffs points to where the Trump administration's protectionism may head next - and it's not really a return to a North American free trade zone for steel and aluminum products.

Brantford's Wayne Etmanski has spent years living in the woods with white-tailed deer. His hope is to co-exist and befriend the herd.

The 24-year-old victim was sitting with a friend shortly before 11 p.m. when Hamilton police say he lost his balance while standing up and fell off the edge.

Halton Regional Police are seeking four men they say were involved in an early morning jewelry heist in Burlington, Ont.

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Hamilton police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down 25-year-old Odessa Wickland.

A 76-year-old pilot who died alongside his wife when their plane crashed near a runway at the Brantford Municipal Airport last November was flying without a valid pilot’s licence, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada has found.

Marc Lemire is on leave, and the city is drilling down how much, if any, personal information he's accessed as a network analyst.

Welcome to a new edition of the CBC's classic news knowledge contest, the Front Page Challenge, where you compete with a CBC Hamilton reporter to name the mystery Hamilton newsmaker. Our first challenge takes place on Tuesday May 28, 2019 at noon live on this page and on Facebook.

The event will include an outdoor music festival and food served out of "shipping container infrastructure."

Are you ready to have the best garden on your block? Here's how: Ask an expert. Be part of our award-winning live chat with expert gardeners. Also listen to the call-in show with Ontario Today's Ed Lawrence. Call in by dialling 1-888-817-8995 on Monday.

A Niagara Falls man is facing child pornography charges following a police investigation into the alleged sexual exploitation of children.

Torstar Corp. says it will close the Hamilton Spectator's printing and mailroom operations this summer and look at selling the property.

Two veteran defence lawyers say the rate of overdoses at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre (HWDC) is so "outrageous" and "scary" it should be a factor for bail hearings.

The sister of an inmate who died at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre last year is walking from London, Ont. to Queen’s Park to raise awareness about she calls the “crisis in corrections” on both sides of the bars.

Three students at a Welland French Catholic school say they didn't want Sam Oosterhoff to visit after the Niagara West MPP took the stage at Queen's Park to speak against abortion.

The road is currently blocked in both directions for because of falling rocks and debris. The city says crews are investigating and clearing the road, but that effort was halted today because of the rain.

For Emily Matweow, it looked like a novel way to lose weight – pay $2,500 to enter a weight loss program, and get $2,300 back if she succeeded.

The attack began inside a barbershop near the corner of King Street East and East Avenue North, according to investigators. They say Douse was then chased north on East Avenue by three male suspects to the front of a home where the stabbing continued.

A citizen of Spain has been arrested, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents say, after swimming across the Niagara River to illegally enter the United States.

Demand is outpacing supply at Hamilton’s two legal storefront dispensaries — leaving one shop on the cusp of scaling back its hours because it can’t keep shelves stocked.

The forecast is calling for hail and isolated wind gusts up to 85 km/h.

Recently discovered remains of a Royal Hamilton Light Infantry soldier who died in the Second World War will be buried with the rest of his body in a French grave nearly 75 years after his death.

City council wants the Doug Ford government to hit the brakes on its plan to merge Hamilton's public health unit with three others — but ultimately, there's not much the city can do about it.

Hamilton has dropped its legal fight against what it says is an unfair hike to its Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) levy, saying provincial legislation gives the city no other choice.

A female inmate at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre was taken to hospital Monday following a suspected opioid overdose — the seventh inmate at the jail to suffer a suspected overdose in less than a week.

The issue of free menstrual products and who needs them will be back before Hamilton city councillors tonight, after the last debate touched on the regularity of menstrual cycles, discomfort with the subject and Bollywood comedies.

Rebecca Morris-Miller is an overdose survivor. Now, she's trying to help people with addictions and their families navigate some of the hardest moments of their lives.

A Niagara-area police officer who was shot and seriously wounded, allegedly by a fellow officer, has himself been charged in connection with the shooting.

The Niagara Falls amusement park and zoo says an independent necropsy shows the marine mammal died of heart attack in late April.

Hamilton police say four people are now facing child pornography charges for allegedly using social media platforms to share photos and videos of child sexual abuse.

After 20 years the province has delivered its first new Indigenous curriculum and Anishinaabe educator Colinda Clyne says, while she's glad it's finally been released, there are some key unanswered questions.

A Scarborough man is facing dangerous driving charges after colliding with a hydro pole on the Queen Street Mountain access overnight.

A man is dead after being struck and killed on a dark stretch of road in Ancaster overnight.

Hamilton's mayor says he'll take up the province's offer to try to cut the city's budget by four per cent. But he says Ford has to stop the surprises, and stop cutting public health and ambulance service.

Tenants will be able to move into a now-vacant CityHousing Hamilton tower by next fall now that Ottawa is contributing another $10 million to the construction.

Hamilton public health officials are warning people who inject drugs that there's a spike in HIV and a certain type of strep.

Low-flying helicopters will begin hovering around Hamilton and the surrounding area next week as the city continues its battle against the gypsy moth.

Provincial money will pay for 15 more beds at the Juravinski Cancer Centre unit, which serves patients with leukemia and other cancers.

Ontario researchers say they've come up with a way to store vaccines at higher temperatures for weeks at a time.

The Niagara Falls, Ont. amusement park and zoo says two people who claimed to be father and son repeatedly tried to cause the animals in its Deer Park to panic, eventually starting a stampede.

The latest incidents come just over a month after a female inmate in her 30s died of a suspected overdose at the HWDC on April 12.

Rolling lane closures in the left lane of the northbound Red Hill Valley Parkway (RHVP) will be implemented starting at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the city.

A citizen group which says the anti-abortion stance taken by Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff, and a wave of anti-abortion bills in the United States, gave rise to its formation, is vowing to take its fight to all "forced birth candidates" at both the provincial and federal level.

Some drivers will likely have to take detours during Tuesday's commute as the city will completely close Locke Street in both directions between Hunter and Melbourne Streets to accommodate the ongoing reconstruction project in the area.

The building was ablaze when crews arrived and the roof has collapsed, according to a tweet from the fire department.

Emergency crews, including fire fighters and a hazardous materials response team, were called to the building at 12 Sunrise Court around 10:24 a.m. after the powder was reported.

The Ford government's top adviser on reforming alcohol sales will soon hand over his recommendations, and CBC News obtained some insights into his thinking in an interview.