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A mass of quinoa seeds excavated from an archeological dig at a Brantford, Ont., construction site has been identified as being 3,000 years old, raising questions about the extent of trade among Indigenous peoples at the time.

A group of volunteers calling themselves Team We Care handed out food and warm clothing to people in downtown Hamilton.

Property sales and listings dipped last year in the Hamilton-Burlington area, as the market cooled down and people sought out more affordable homes, said the Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington.

Hamilton landed in seventh place on Orkin Canada's list of the top bed bug cities across the country.

The Ontario Trucking Association says there's a desperate shortage of truckers in Ontario and they have a solution. They want to bring in more foreign workers to do the job because companies can't find enough people in Ontario.

A Hamilton father is trying to get the word out after two men in a van approached his son while he was walking to school on the Mountain Monday morning.

Roses and lilacs aren't yet in bloom but nature enthusiasts can escape the winter cold by visiting a spider exhibit making its Canadian debut this week at the Royal Botanical Gardens.

Hamilton Police are investigating after an early morning break-in at the Dank Dispensary marijuana shop.

The Hamilton Police Service's 2019 budget includes a plan for a big increase in the number of frontline officers.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a St. Catharines, Ont., audience tonight that Indigenous people in Canada have long had the wrong end of the stick. Trudeau was speaking at one of a series of election-year town hall meetings he's holding across the country.

Hamilton has said yes to pot stores. Here's a look at what we know and what we still don't know about that local retail market will look like.

Jay Jillard has carved out a formidable niche as a premier custom guitar builder in the city, crafting handmade instruments that are making their way onto stages across the country.

Ontario is proposing changes to the Greater Golden Horseshoe's growth plan that the government says would make it easier and faster to build housing.

Police have identified the victim of an alleged St. Catharines homicide earlier this month.

Ontario's Progressive Conservative government has announced a plan Tuesday to comprehensively review the province's regional governments. Mayors in the regions said they will welcome the review, as long as it is conducted in good faith.

Hamilton police are looking for witnesses to come forward after the sound of gunshots forced people inside at a local elementary school and a daycare in the east end on Monday.

The winning ticket was purchased at Eastwood Variety on Mary Street in Hamilton.

Emergency crews were called to the crash near the 7th Concession East around 5:15 a.m., according to the OPP, and found one person had been ejected from the vehicle during the crash and killed.

A Hamilton family is speaking out about another drug death inside the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre that was never revealed publicly.

Hamilton police are investigating after a daylight shooting near a school.

The Ontario Provincial Police Norfolk County detachment has received seven non-emergent calls to 911 so far this month.

The alleged assault occurred on the university's campus in October 2018.

A group of protesters occupied a TransCanada pipeline facility in Hamilton for several hours Monday in a show of solidarity with Wet'suwet'en anti-pipeline camps in British Columbia.

A driver with a suspended license is facing multiple drug charges after Hamilton Police, during a RIDE check, noticed a “strong odour of cannabis.”

The decision came after hours of debate Monday afternoon and following a failed motion by Ward 4 Councillor Sam Merulla to opt out of the retail option ended in a tie.

The town of Pelham has become a hotbed for legal commercial pot growers who have snapped up greenhouses and converted them from flowers and vegetables to the more lucrative crop.

As they've done time and time again through the years, Walk Off the Earth performed to an adoring crowd in Burlington, Ont., Sunday night — but this time, one member's absence weighed heavy in the air.

Check out new music from Lee Harvey Osmond, Shanika Maria and Brian Cuddy.

The raid marked 11th warrant executed at a dispensary in Hamilton since legalization, according to Deputy Chief Dan Kinsella, but the first where the service has used new powers under the Ontario Cannabis Act to seize a property.

The mild winter has meant some Niagara winemakers haven't been able to harvest for icewine. Now it's a weather waiting game — and there's a lot at stake.

In a show of solidarity with members of a First Nations community in British Columbia that is protesting a court injunction allowing a pipeline company access to their land, people in Brantford have blocked off two main roads in the community.

Two former Hamilton paramedics charged in connection with the death of Yosif Al-Hasnawi will head straight to trial after a rare direct indictment one of their lawyers describes as "extremely unfair."

Two convoys of vehicles slowed traffic on stretches of Canada's busiest highway Friday morning in Ontario in a show of solidarity with an anti-pipeline protest in British Columbia.

Condo prices in Hamilton jumped 9.1 per cent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2018, beating the national average, along with the rate of appreciation for all other types of homes locally.

Ontario has announced the first 25 companies that can apply for cannabis retail licences in the province.

The siblings of Anthony Divers, who Hamilton police shot and killed in 2016, are suing the police board and two officers for $7.5 million. But the lawsuit is mostly on hold until an inquest later this year.

Shylo Elmayan comes to McMaster after working as the city of Hamilton's Urban Indigenous Strategy Planner.

Members of the Arkells will join Walk off the Earth, the Barenaked Ladies and others during a tribute concert for Mike "Beard Guy" Taylor Sunday that will be live streamed by CBC.

Ontario Provincial Police say they are investigating after someone poured syrup into a car’s gas tank in Simcoe on Tuesday afternoon.

London police have arrested a man they say pretended to be a 13-year-old girl and asking for pictures of children on Instagram.

Two months after Hamilton police said they were willing to reopen historic sexual assault cases stretching back to 2010, seven people have come forward asking investigators to review their cases.

A woman jumped into the frigid waters of Long Point Bay to save her dog this week.

This time last year nobody was predicting Doug Ford would become Ontario premier in 2018, so accurately predicting what will happen in provincial politics in 2019 can't possibly be as difficult. Can it?

The manufacturer of a clothing donation bin that became the site of a tragedy in Toronto Tuesday when a homeless woman became trapped inside and died says it is halting production of the bins.

A Norfolk County woman has been charged with public mischief after police say she provided investigators with false information about a sexual assault.

Canada's social development minister says his government is on track to roll out 40,000 affordable child care spaces over 11 years — a plan that includes at least 1,000 new spots in Hamilton.

David Schimmelpenninck was scheduled to teach a non-compulsory second-year course during the Winter 2019 term following an almost three-year absence after an investigation into sexual harassment.

While restoring the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford as part of the Save the Evidence campaign, writings and scrawlings were found of former residential school students dating back to the early 1900's.

Lachlan Holmes has started Hamilton Forward, which is advocating for more high-rises to fix Hamilton's housing crisis.

Protesters in downtown Hamilton blocked traffic Tuesday and marched in support of people from a northern B.C. First Nation which has been preventing a pipeline company from accessing their traditional territory.