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Supporters of Hamilton's LGBTQ community are denouncing the actions of "vitriolic" protesters after a physical confrontation broke out between opposing groups at the Hamilton Pride festival at Gage Park on Saturday.

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Two years of flooding caused heavy damage along Hamilton's waterfront. Now, an update from city staff shows repair costs are mounting even before the damage from this year's record-breaking water levels has been considered.

Waterdown may soon hear a century-old church bell again, after its lay silent for the past five years.

After a string of alleged anti-Semitic and racist hate crimes in Burlington, Halton police have released more details about a person of interest and are again asking the public's help.

Toronto Raptors fans celebrating their team’s first NBA championship will have another chance to party Monday during the official championship parade and rally.

As Pride Hamilton prepares for its annual celebration on Saturday, it also wants to "take stock" of where the event is going.

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The money will be used for airfield rehabilitation and a modernization project that will "support continued cargo and passenger traffic growth," according to the airport.

With little more than a fortnight remaining, it appears Cavalry FC has some competition. Forge FC has pulled within two points of the unbeaten runaway leaders. But as Nigel Reed writes, the math doesn't add up.

A 19-year-old man was driving a BMW Wednesday, Hamilton police say, more than twice the legal speed limit.

For the first time ever, members of Parliament will have the right to take paid parental leave from their jobs on Parliament Hill when they adopt or give birth.

Check out the scenes from Toronto's Jurassic Park, other venues across Canada and Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., as the Toronto Raptors made history against the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to win their first NBA Championship.

There's no more wondering what might have been. No more talking about missed shots or missed opportunities. No more heartbreak. Not this time. Not this team.

Frankie Williams' 68-yard punt return TD sparked the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a 23-17 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the CFL regular-season opener for both teams Thursday night.

Investigations are underway, after the city of Burlington says it was the victim of a $503,000 phishing scheme.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says she's committed to running for premier in the next election, ahead of her leadership review at this weekend's provincial convention in Hamilton.

The Toronto Raptors have another shot at making history tonight by being the first Canadian team to win the NBA championship.

Newly-released police use of force statistics show that while Hamilton officers drew their guns more in 2018, total use of force incidents remained right around average — and police officers occasionally had to deal with people wielding swords.

It's been over a year, but Zach Collaros hasn't forgotten being traded by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

The governing body for soccer in Canada has opened an investigation into allegations that racist comments were made during a skirmish at the end of a game between Calgary's Cavalry Football Club and Hamilton's Forge Football Club last week.

When David Chung's father died unexpectedly, the Grade 10 student suddenly had a whole new world of financial responsibilities. Now he's helping other teens learn about money management.

Autopsy results have revealed a 21-year-old man who died in a crash last Sunday morning in Flamborough was electrocuted by a downed wire after getting out of his car.

When swastikas and racist slurs were scrawled across the schoolyard at St. Bernadette Catholic Elementary over the weekend a group of Dundas women didn't hesitate to take action.

The Raptors aren't the only Canadian basketball team you can watch on television — as CBC Sports announced this week it will start live streaming games from the Canadian Elite Basketball League.

The Mealshare program launched this week in Hamilton — meaning 11 local restaurants will now donate to youth charities each time you order certain items.

A series of "targeted" and "politically motivated" cuts to legal clinics across Ontario are the provincial government's way of making sure its agenda can't be challenged, says the head of the Hamilton Community Legal Clinic.

Your friendly, neighbourhood, Ontario-run cannabis store could have a new, and expanded menu. Pot brownies, cannabis tea, cannabis chocolate and much more are on the way but, one expert says, not until 2020.

Provincial police have charged a 19-year-old driver after a vehicle narrowly missed colliding head-on with a cruiser.

In 1969 Niagara's American Falls were "turned off" so engineers could study the effects of rock falls on the flow of the water.

Poverty levels both in Hamilton and across the province have been dropping for the last two decades, according to a new report from the Social Planning and Research Council.

The Wesley Day Centre — a community hub for people experiencing homelessness and precarious housing that has been running in Hamilton for over 20 years — is closing its doors this summer.

The benefits of physical activity on heart health show up as early as preschool, says a new study out of McMaster University.

Hamilton police are investigating hateful graffiti targeting black and Jewish people that has appeared in a Dundas park and schoolyard in recent weeks.

Hamilton's public school board says it will no longer offer 173 courses planned for next year because of provincial class size changes, budget cuts and declining enrolment.

After a body was recovered from the water near Princess Point on Tuesday, police say they do not think the death was suspicious.

An Ancaster man has been fined $6,250 for running a slaughterhouse without a licence, the province announced Tuesday.

The northbound lanes of the Red Hill Valley Parkway (RHVP) are set to reopen Wednesday following weeks of resurfacing work.

The Ontario government wants gas station operators to display its mandatory anti-carbon tax stickers by the end of the summer or face potential Provincial Offences Act charges.

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 next challenge takes place on Thursday June 13, 2019 at noon live on this page and on Facebook.

Police were called around 6:30 p.m. Monday after workers said they recognized the man from an incident two days before at a different store where he managed to cash a fraudulent cheque.

In celebration of the way Canadians are rallying behind the Raptors, the CFL has decided to move up the kickoff time for the Ticats home opener from 7:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Jeremiah Masoli has a tough act to follow this season. His own. Masoli is coming off a career '18 campaign with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Monday's Game 5 against the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors, a game the Raptors hoped would be their last of this season, turned out to be a back-and-forth slugfest that came down to the final shot.

The NBA Finals are headed back to Oakland after the Toronto Raptors failed in their first opportunity to clinch the championship. The Golden State Warriors won Game 5 106-105 on Monday in Toronto to trim the Raptors's series lead to 3-2.

Animal welfare advocates are celebrating after the House of Commons voted Monday to ban keeping whales, dolphins and porpoises in captivity — in a move with long-term consequences for Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont.

The cuts are being felt by cultural organizations across the province, big and small.

Bob Wilson's daughter Linda Moss says doctors and the coroner told her his primary cause of death, at a palliative-care facility in Burlington, Ont., on the weekend, was a bedsore infection that got into his bones and blood.

Tonight could be historic. Here's where you can find viewing parties in the Hamilton-Burlington area.

The fire that burned rubber mats and wooden pallets sent a massive cloud of black smoke billowing into the sky.