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Winter just won't leave.

Hundreds of Hamilton students have walked out of class in protest of changes changes expected to come to the education system.

Students in Brant County with outdated immunization records will be suspended, officials say, from school until their records are updated.

The federal government has announced $12.7 million in funding for shoreline rehabilitation in Hamilton, to help rebuild after extreme storms battered the edge of the harbour in recent years.

Four people have been taken to hospital, police say, with one suffering life-threatening injuries after a three vehicle crash on Hwy. 6.

Senior government sources have told The Canadian Press that teachers would be required to pass the test in order to continue teaching.

Market demand - not gentrification - has led to the decline of strip clubs in Hamilton.

Some Ontario school boards have written to the education minister with concerns that planned increases to class sizes will mean they can offer fewer elective courses, such as in the arts and skilled trades.

Students from over two-dozen schools in Hamilton and surrounding regions are set to walk out of the classroom Thursday to protest provincial changes to education.

Are doctors being paid more to see you less? The new system may be rewarding doctors who discourage their patients from visiting walk-in clinics in off hours instead sending them to crowded emergency rooms.

A biopharmaceutical company founded at McMaster University has secured over $140 million in private funding for new cancer research, the school announced Wednesday.

Environment Canada says a cold front is bringing "widespread wind gusts" around 70 km/h to the region, with some gusts up to 80 km/h possible.

Hamilton police are warning people not to leave their keys in a running vehicle after a 16-year-old allegedly stole a truck from a lower-city driveway on Monday.

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal is expected to release its report late Wednesday on Finance Minister Bill Morneau's use of emergency safeguard measures to shield Canada's domestic market from seven types of foreign steel.

Metrolinx has made its most major purchase yet for Hamilton light rail transit (LRT) — six hectares in the west end for a maintenance and storage facility.

The city is looking at letting cars park on the Bay Street bike lanes for most hours of the day. One cycling advocate says that will lead to a dangerous trend.

A 34-year-old man, a 55-year-old man and a 40-year-old man who was found in the city's downtown core, were all pronounced dead say police.

A group of Hamilton doctors is participating in a campaign to push the federal government to enact stronger gun laws.

Changing Ontario's licence plates will be a signal that a the province has a new government in charge after 15 years under the Liberals, one of Doug Ford's cabinet ministers said Tuesday.

Canada is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world. The city has declared a climate emergency. So what are we supposed to do about it?

The Ford government left Ontario’s lowest-paid workers with less money in their pockets by giving them a tax break instead of boosting the minimum wage, says Ontario’s non-partisan number cruncher.

Const. Kerry Schmidt said a witness called emergency services to report a single-vehicle rollover on the Fort-Erie bound QEW near Sodom Road.

Investigators found the driver sleeping in his vehicle beside the pump and arrested him without incident.

The 37-year-old Norwich man is facing a long list of charges after police determined the cause of the crash was driver error and the truck he was using wasn't fit for the road.

Vito Sgro spent more than twice what Fred Eisenberger did, including hiring an airplane. Eisenberger spent less on signs, ads and almost everything else.

The average price of a home in Hamilton rose almost five per cent in March compared to the same month last year. In response, people are choosing “more affordable” homes and communities, according to the latest report from the Realtors Association of Hamilton/Burlington.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats re-signed veteran Canadian kicker Lirim Hajrullahu to a two-year contract Monday after he hit 46 of 54 field-goal attempts (85.2 per cent) and 41 of 46 conversions (89.1 per cent) last season.

Hamilton police are trying to track down a man wanted on a nationwide warrant for several violent offences.

Former premier Kathleen Wynne, speaking at an event in Hamilton Monday, criticized the Ford government's decision to end the pilot program that gave 4,000 people in Ontario a guaranteed basic income.

The city's inability to fully shut down illegal storefront cannabis dispensaries in Hamilton is Premier Doug Ford's "biggest frustration" when it comes to legalization in the province.

Police, paramedics and fire fighters were called to a home near the corner of King and Albert Streets around 6:45 p.m. Sunday after reports of a baby boy in medical distress.

The Fairview Street location boasts 4,600-square-feet of retail space, a number operator David Nguyen says makes it the biggest store currently open in the country.

The three-vehicle crash has temporarily closed the road near the Burlington Lift Bridge, say police. The QEW Niagara-bound on-ramp is also closed.

Starting today, residents are asked to toss all yard waste in a brown paper bag or open-top, reusable container marked with a yard waste sticker.

Investigators say the 73-year-old crashed into a minivan carrying a woman and her three-year-old daughter.

Participants in the now-cancelled basic income pilot project shares their stories and heard from former premier Kathleen Wynne on Monday in a public event in Hamilton.

Runners hit the pavement in Hamilton Sunday morning, for the 125th Around the Bay road race.

Check out new music from Pup, Swim Good Now and Liam Duncan.

As the racers take their mark this Sunday, here's a look at some highlights from the kilometres of history the race, route and runners have covered.

Diversity advocates say they're disappointed Hamilton hasn't used its latest appointment to add some marginalized voices to the police services board.

Hamilton's supervised injection site has received official approval and will receive government funding, along with 14 other sites across Ontario with the "greatest need."

A Hamilton man is facing drug trafficking charges, police say, after officers seized an estimated $1.3 million worth of drugs Friday.

Provincial police say Vernon Shipman has been charged with three counts of accessory after the fact to murder.

An Etobicoke man is facing charges after police say he threw plastic cups in a Hamilton courtroom, then went outside and smashed a front window with a two by four.

Acoustic telemetry is helping scientists monitor the massive goldfish taking over Hamilton's Harbour and posing a potential threat to other Great Lakes.

After eight years on James Street North, David Brace is closing his b contemporary art gallery this weekend, forced to move to the more affordable Barton Street.

After a "heavy" fire on the Mountain late Thursday night, Hamilton fire officials say four adults and three children escaped unharmed.

In Haudenosaunee philosophy, there is the principle of seven generations: the awareness that the consequences of your decisions will ripple seven generations into the future, and your current situation is the product of actions taken by the seven generations prior.

A Niagara-area police officer has been charged with attempted murder, after another officer was shot at a rural crossroads in November.

The statement of claim filed today argues the early termination of basic income payments amounted to a breach of contract.