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Brantford Power has issued a warning to customers to look out for a phone scam they say is targeting businesses in the area.

Hamilton city council has reversed a decision to leave the door open for an energy-from-waste proposal that would see Hamilton "super heat" material from local blue boxes.

A Hamilton steelworkers union is demanding an apology after it says Liberal MP Bob Bratina shouted obscenities at some steelworkers and kicked them out of his office.

The owners of Esther the Wonder Pig say they have signed on with a major Hollywood production company to produce a film based on their beloved 285-kilogram porker.

The driver of an SUV lost control and crashed through a Fortinos in Burlington Tuesday afternoon, Halton police say.

Ontario's new healthcare super agency plan has been tried before, one former deputy health minister says, and 'there is a tendency towards a period of chaos that can last as long as five years.' Dr. Bob Bell spoke with the CBC about what he says is the biggest change to healthcare in 50 years.

Hamilton is under a snowfall warning issued by Environment Canada. Hamilton English public schools are closed Wednesday while Catholic schools are open but buses are cancelled.

Investigators have identified human remains found in Welland earlier this month as missing St. Catharines woman Samantha Lambert.

A Hamilton city councillor says he'll do whatever he can this week to stop the city from opening its doors to a new company that wants to "super heat" the city's blue box material.

Towering piles of ice tossed over barriers and walls by waves and winds gusting over 100 km/h are drawing the curious and selfie-seekers to Fort Erie, Ont.

A Burlington personal support worker who was already facing charges for stealing from elderly, police say, has been arrested again for fraud and theft.

Drivers are cautioned their afternoon commute could be affected.

The Doug Ford government is creating a central agency called Ontario Health to oversee the province's $60-billion health-care system.

An issue with a blast furnace at ArcelorMittal Dofasco caused a cloud of black smoke to belch out over the bayfront Monday morning.

Members of the choir at Stewart Memorial Church are making sure the songs of their ancestors live forever inside the halls of one of Hamilton’s most hallowed institutions.

Hamilton police say there's not enough evidence to lay charges in a voter fraud investigation into a Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas (HWAD) Ontario PC investigation.

Roads are open and crews are clearing ice after a wicked wind storm flooded parts of Port Dover, requiring several residents to be rescued.

Niagara regional police say they have arrested three people and recovered more than a dozen firearms that were stolen during a break and enter at a home in the Township of Wainfleet.

School buses are delayed or cancelled and several conservation areas have been shut down for the day.

The service says gunshots were reported in the area of Concession and East 33rd Streets just after 2:30 a.m.

Quintin Bingley, 18, had been missing since late May.

An Ottawa-area man was accidentally shot during a robbery Friday night, police say, after a bullet his alleged accomplice fired into their victim's chest passed through the victim and struck the first robber in the leg.

Emergency crews rescued a 77-year-old woman from her home Sunday as ice and water pushed up by a "major wind storm" flooded several houses and caused road closures in the Hamilton and Niagara Region.

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Hamilton has seen a 19.1 per cent increase in food bank usage among seniors since 2017.

Luciano Brancalion pleaded guilty to failing to install and maintain smoke alarms in a home he owned after three people died in a fire.

Doctors at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton have performed the first robotic knee replacement surgery in the country.

A mix of strong winds and snow could create hazardous conditions in Hamilton and the rest of Southern Ontario on Sunday.

The city says it is going to spend $1.7 million as part of hosting the 2021 Grey Cup celebration.

Indigenous content in the film world is progressing, from casting calls looking for Indigenous talent to new Indigenous films, a lot is happening. But to those in the industry, they say there is more work that needs to be done.

After an early morning fire on Greendale Avenue in Hamilton, officials say, a person suffered minor burns and a dog was killed.

Two men have been injured, police, say after a shooting Thursday night in Brantford.

Organizers say Hamilton's Anti-Racism Resource Centre will be back, and better, but it wasn't reaching enough people.

Provincial police are warning people in Brantford and the surrounding area to be on the lookout for suspicious containers.

For the first time in almost a quarter-century, the biggest game in Canadian football will be held in Hamilton.

Hamilton city council will set up a committee to look at homelessness among women and the transgender population, and is also looking at new rules for when it decides where to spend on housing.

Provincial police are investigating a steak theft that likely left a hungry family in Norfolk County feeling raw.

The Native Horizons Treatment Centre was destroyed by a fire in December. Two months later, they plan to rebuild both their program and the building.

Several McMaster University student groups are asking the federal government step in and investigate whether or not Chinese officials are meddling with student affairs on campuses in Canada.

City officials now say they never really believed Hamilton's $500,000 bid for Amazon was going to work, says the city's head of economic development. But the city has been squeezing what it can out of the material anyway.

A Stoney Creek senior is facing stunt driving charges after police allegedly clocked him going more than double the speed limit, at 139 km/h in a 60 km/h zone.

The CFL is set to announce the host for the 2020 edition of the biggest game in Canadian football at 6:30 p.m. and Hamilton is on the shortlist.

About half of Canada's inmates were abused as children, suggests a study out of McMaster University that's in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Former Hamilton police officer Craig Ruthowsky, who a judge once said used his badge “as an ATM” in a pay for protection scheme with drug dealers, will stand trial on a new set of charges.

Developers who have bought up land along Hamilton's light-rail transit (LRT) line are holding off in fear that the $1-billion project won't happen.

Please, Norfolk County — don’t call police to report a raccoon on your front porch.

Environment Canada has issued a freezing rain warning for Hamilton.

A Niagara humane society has completely run out of cats, which it attributes to more people spaying and neutering their animals. And a Hamilton shelter is running low as well.

The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa says what happened at McMaster had "nothing to do with the Chinese Embassy and Chinese Consulate General in Canada."

An 84-year-old Fort Erie man faces is facing abduction and sexual assault charges related to a pair of victims from 50 years ago.