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Hamilton transit riders will get more frequent service on the Mountain this year, but only if city council approves a steep 9.6 per cent budget increase.

Hamilton police want the community to band together, councillors want officers to create a task force and the mayor wants to 'ban the damn guns.'

A seven-year-old boy who is in hospital recovering from gunshot wounds was an "unintended victim" of a targeted shooting that took place at his home in the city's east end, Hamilton police say

The ice and snow on the roads may worsen a heavy downpour expected tonight, according to Environment Canada.

A new study from McMaster University shows that scurvy, a disease brought on by severe vitamin C deficiency, is alive and well in Hamilton.

A seven-year-old boy was rushed hospital after being shot at a residence in Hamilton's east end Thursday night, officials say.

Norfolk County has just named its fourth CAO since last January, the latest in a year of massive turnover that includes staff firings, retirements and a higher than usual number of vacancies in the county of 65,000 people.

A union rep, a retired journalist and a former Liberal MP are among the members of a new Hamilton transportation task force that will decide how to spend $1 billion.

Hamilton's Forge FC has sold star midfielder Tristan Borges, the leading scorer and MVP of the Canadian Premier League, to Belgian club Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

Police are using the incident as a reminder for residents to protect their personal information and help stop scammers.

Two "out of towners" are facing charges, police say, after a silver Dodge Challenger was seen cruising down Barton Street East with a handgun hanging out the window.

HWDSB says all after-school sports and extracurriculars are cancelled until further notice and elementary students won't be receiving report cards this term.

It took two years and hours of debate, but the area around Hamilton's Hunter Street GO station will finally get three more blocks of bike lanes.

Brock University students are sifting through sand for plastic waste to show that the issue of waste plastics isn't just one in distant oceans.

Amid the teacher job actions, there's been a lot of misleading and false information coming from both the province and teachers and their unions. Here are some of the more common claims that have caused confusion.

The province still hasn't announced who is on the task force, which will make a recommendation in February.

Hopes of finding Holly Ellsworth-Clark stay alive as hundreds of people surveyed streets in Hamilton Wednesday evening to find the missing 27-year-old.

Staff at Hamilton General Hospital are working under increasing demands to deliver care, while the site continues to work overcapacity.

Emergency crews were called to a farm on Smithville Road in Canborough around 2:24 p.m. Tuesday and found the barn fully-engulfed in flames, according to provincial police.

The good news: only 3.4% totally agreed that "transit is for those less fortunate than me," and drivers would be willing to try HSR if it was reliable and fast, and protected them from the elements.

It's now the norm for hospitals to run over capacity — and Hamilton and Niagara general hospitals land among the top five most frequently overfilled sites in the province.

Overcrowding has become so common in Ontario hospitals that patient beds are routinely placed in hallways and conference rooms, research by CBC News reveals.

Halton police say the body of a missing woman, 22, was found encased in ice in a Burlington creek on Tuesday.

Hamilton police responded on Monday to a call reporting the sound of gunshots near Glen Castle Drive and Mount Albion Road by Greenhill Avenue.

Along Wentworth Street North, King Street East and Wilson Street drivers in cars, vans and transport trucks honked their horns in noisy support of Hamilton's striking teachers. Teachers at 35 Catholic schools were on strike Tuesday as part of province-wide protests.

A 24-year-old Hamilton man driving a Toyota Rav4 is facing four charges for the two incidents with the Honda Civic.

First responders airlifted a man in his 20s with serious injuries, while the other passengers, also men in their 20s, went to a local hospital.

Officers carried out two search warrants at the same east Mountain residence between July 2018 and January 2020.

Girt said the officers would act as a pilot project, doing traffic enforcement, RIDE checks, investigate accidents and also look out for problem drivers.

Hamilton police say she was last seen on Saturday Jan. 11 at 4 p.m. near Sanford Avenue North and Cannon Street area.

Transit expert and advocate Jason Allen maps out the playbook he thinks the city needs to follow to keep LRT alive.

The scammer established an online relationship on a dating website which included a thread of emails with the suspect’s history and job status.

John Verbeek, deputy fire chief, tells CBC News when first responders arrived, they were met with “heavy fire conditions” in the front of the single storey home

The initiative called “Designing Paradise” highlights the inclusion of American artist and landscape architect Patricia Johanson, who uses sculptures to fix ecological problem spots.

The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) has announced that, on Thursday, teachers in Niagara schools will join a one-day strike.

A public complaint filed against Hamilton Police Chief Eric Girt for comments he made about LGBTQ issues during a September radio interview has been dismissed by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD).

Two people were forced from their home after a car became fully engulfed in flames inside a townhouse garage in Burlington on Saturday, Halton police say.

Curtis Bowles Johnson talks about his father's days training in Hamilton and the lasting legacy he believes the Soul Man has left behind.

Hamilton and Brantford have increased the number naloxone kits in communities to prevent more overdoses.

Holly Hamilton's friends and family gasped, and some broke down in tears, as a judge declared a mistrial in the case of the ex-boyfriend charged with stabbing her to death.

The first incident at the Hamilton steelmaker happened on May 23, 2018 and involved carbon monoxide exposure. The second took place on Dec. 6, 2018 when a worker's hand was caught in the "pinch point" of a machine, according to the Ministry of Labour.

Officers found two large-calibre shell casings and dug a bullet out of the front door of a Stoney Creek home.

Sandee Ewasiuk, 55, who teaches at the Art Gallery of Burlington and the Dundas Valley School of Art, is selling paintings of images she took in Australia with all proceeds going directly to the WIRES Australian Wildlife Rescue Organization.

It started as a call about a man uttering threats but quickly morphed into a high-speed chase on one of the GTA's major highways.

The weather agency says a low pressure system is approaching southwestern Ontario Friday night and heading east to the Golden Horseshoe early Saturday.

Tyson Foerster showed the scouts taking in the CHL top prospects game what he has to offer to NHL clubs. The 17-year-old Foerster had two goals and an assist and Connor Zary tacked on three helpers as Team White beat Team Red 5-3 on Thursday at the showcase event for junior hockey's elite.

LiUNA, a pro-LRT union, is on the province's task force deciding how $1 billion will be spent on transportation in Hamilton.

Gabor Lukacs, founder of Air Passenger Rights, says the passengers on Flight WO651 could be eligible for compensation if they use the Montreal Convention, part of the Carriage by Air Act.

Dan Priljeva says the coyote soaked up some sun and napped in his neighbour's yard for a few hours this past weekend.

In a safety notice to the public, officers urge residents to administer Naloxone and call emergency services if they fear someone is overdosing.