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With vacancy rates in the Hamilton area plummeting to some of their lowest levels in a decade, the local realtors association is warning of a rental scam taking advantage of people who may be desperate to find a place to live.

The head of Hamilton's largest women's organization says the city is being "extremely troubling" by ignoring calls to add more minorities and women to the hiring panel for its top job.

The first company to apply to open a bricks-and-mortar cannabis retail store in the west region is The Niagara Herbalist from St. Catharines.

Hamilton's public and Catholic schools are closed Wednesday. Here's a list of schools and other facilities closed today.

The Ford government has launched a plan to tackle lengthy waiting lists for autism therapy. It will also now provide families with up to $140,000 per child until age 18.

In some ways, the lanterns that front the old James Baptist church site are a metaphor. For years now, the site has been in the dark, and soon, there'll be a 30-storey condo tower there.

Barton Street is currently closed between Rosslyn Avenue Ottawa Street. Investigators are asking people to avoid the area as there's a currently a heavy police presence.

The lawyer for a former Hamilton mortgage broker on trial for sexual assault and fraud charges said in court Tuesday that a witness totally made up a sexual encounter with his client, Dennis Khanna.

The awards were held on Saturday and celebrate the achievements and contributions from residents of the city of Hamilton from the Hamilton Black History Committee

The federal government plans to merge the Hamilton and Oshawa port authorities.

Investigators say several parents started yelling at each other after a game and that disagreement eventually grew into a fracas involving dozens of adults.

The 32-year-old is charged with possession of a dangerous weapon, uttering threats, using an imitation firearm to commit an offence and carrying and concealed weapon.

The victim was transported to hospital after the shooting near Parkdale Avenue North and Roxborough Avenue after midnight, police say. He is expected to survive.

Ice pellets and freezing rain are expected to make for a slick, messy commute in the Hamilton, Burlington and Niagara areas Wednesday.

Ontario's highest court has ordered new, separate trials for a man convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of two sex workers in Niagara Region over more than two years, saying the cases should not have been tried together.

The beach canal lighthouse used to guide ships into Hamilton harbour. These days, hardly anyone knows it's there at all. Volunteers hope to change that.

Khanna, 63, is charged with six counts of sexual assault involving four women and one charge of fraud. He has pleaded not guilty.

One of Hamilton’s premier craft beer brewers has its sights set on a new frontier: cannabis-infused drinks.

A flower that blooms only once in it's lifetime is blooming at the Royal Botanical Gardens

Hamilton police are investigating after the RCMP detachment in Stoney Creek was vandalized overnight. A blog post alleges the damage was done in solidarity with a Wet’suwet’en pipeline protest in B.C.

Gunshots rang out in Central Hamilton on Sunday night, police say — now, investigators are trying to track down those responsible for the city’s fourth shooting incident this year.

The Hamilton Conservation Authority has issued a flood watch for the city.

The city will spend $1.7 million in red light camera money to try to make the streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists. But the head of the Vision Zero campaign has urged the city to adopt a plan with more action and less study and education.

British music retailer HMV has received a last-minute offer to save the business, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, from Hamilton’s Sunrise Records.

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath reveals new documents that she says show the province had already signed off on leaked health-care legislation the Progressive Conservatives dismissed as "just a draft" last week.

The unlikely combination of freshwater fish and cannabis is producing outsized medical marijuana crops that Green Relief Inc. aims to capitalize on, as the Canadian company plots a stock market listing and global expansion.

The "highly toxic synthetic laced heroin" can cause confusion, speech problems, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea for days, according to public health officials.

Hamilton police are searching for the owner of a high-end bicycle found with a man who has been charged with possession of heroin, fentanyl and other illicit drugs.

OPP say they were called to a residence in Norfolk County on Tuesday morning.

Police have released a description of the suspect in the slaying of a Hamilton mobster’s son in the hopes it triggers tips from the public.

With temperatures going as high as 7 C today, the city is warning people in flood-prone areas to keep their valuables off their basement floors.

Check out new music from Donovan Woods, Partner and Math Club.

These are the incidents that are leading experts to believe that some form of upheaval is happening right now in Canada's criminal underworld.

The 69-year-old is charged with sexual exploitation of a person with a disability and four counts of sexual assault that police say happened during the mid to late 2000s.

The Ontario government is trying to quell speculation about its stance on full-day kindergarten, saying it is committed to keeping "full-day learning" in place for four and five-year-olds.

Ron Joyce, the man who helped start up the first Tim Hortons in Hamilton and built the donut shop into a Canadian icon, has died.

Ron Joyce, a former policeman who turned Tim Hortons coffee into a billion-dollar empire, has died.

The closure is the latest in a string of shut downs at the dispensary's outlets that started in Hamilton on Jan. 24.

Police say a man has been arrested and there is no threat to public safety.

A Hamilton senior is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash in the lower city Thursday afternoon, police say.

Groundhog Day is Saturday, and Wiarton Willie will spend his Friday getting ready with a visit to the vet. Festival officials are happy to see the weather is set to improve in time for Willie's weather prediction.

A Hamilton public school board wants the public's help to name five new elementary schools.

Justin Trudeau says he's not just concerned about possible cuts Premier Doug Ford could make to Ontario's education system as Canada's prime minister — he's also concerned as a father with children in the province's schools.

A Campbellville, Ont. mushroom farm has pleaded guilty to workplace safety violations after a pallet truck crashed with a forklift and hurt a worker.

Police have charged a man they say was in a series of crashes while zipping around downtown Hamilton on his dirt bike.

Environment Canada issued a weather warning for the region stating residents should take all necessary safety precautions as the extreme cold continues.

Extreme cold causes delays for GO transit

Two French police officers from an anti-gang unit were found guilty on Thursday in Paris of raping a Canadian tourist.

In just a few weeks Ontario's ambitious Basic Income Pilot Project will be over, cancelled by the Doug Ford Conservative government. The last payments go out March 31. For the 4,000 people from Hamilton, Thunder Bay and Lindsay who depended on that money to survive, what happens now?

The city was under an extreme cold warning at the time, with Environment Canada stating the wind chill could make it feel like –35.