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On Friday 17-year-old Kaitlin Coghlin of Brantford Ont. got to meet Hamilton band, Arkells before their show Saturday that they're also going to after the band heard about their story.

Luke Tasker and Mercer Timmis each recorded a pair of touchdowns as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats picked up their first win of the season, defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 38-21 on Friday.

Somewhere on a pond in St. Catharines, Ont., a swan has Fred Bowering to thank for her life.

Here's a list of things going on in Hamilton this weekend.

Hamilton's annual FrancoFEST is getting underway Friday at Gage Park. Here's a look at the two-day festival.

When Peter Khill shot Jon Styres in his driveway in the middle of the night, the former reservist could have been acting on training as engrained as riding a bike, says a psychologist.

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Hamilton band, Arkells will be hosting their largest show on Saturday at Tim Horton's Field and they've been promoting the city in the process of planning for what they're calling, "The Rally."

Hamilton police say a 19-year-old Hamilton man has been charged with careless driving after he drove his car into two hydro poles.

Hamilton’s Audit Services Division is pushing for the creation of a Fraud and Waste Hotline that it says could significantly affect the way it detects wrongdoing citywide.

Here's a look at the weather you can expect in Hamilton today.

Canadian guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was drafted No. 11 overall by the Charlotte Hornets on Thursday. He wasn't a Hornet long, as moments later Gilgeous-Alexander was headed to the Los Angeles Clippers in a trade.

The Police Services Board approved the service's recommended purchase of 26 C8 carbine rifles during its monthly meeting Thursday afternoon.

Niagara Regional Police Service say a 41-year-old Port Colborne​ teacher has been charged after allegedly sharing sexually explicit material to students as young as 16.

Hamilton police say a 19-year-old woman, who was charged with child abduction on Wednesday, may have had two other interactions with young girls earlier this week.

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Hamilton police say a number of emergency vehicles are assisting with a "serious" industrial accident near Leckie Park Thursday afternoon.

On Thursday members of Hamilton's police service gathered for an Aboriginal sunrise ceremony.

Police from Hamilton and the Halton Region worked together to arrest a man who they say used a firearm to rob five convenience stores.

One of the world's fastest-growing airlines is spreading its wings to Canada this fall as Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA enters the country's increasingly crowded travel market.

Here's a look at the weather you can expect in Hamilton today.

Hamilton's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is expected to be a top pick in the first round of the NBA draft.

Imagine being told never to speak the language you were first taught. That's what Wikwemikong First Nation's Rita Corbiere was told when she went to residential school. Since then, the 83-year-old Corbiere has laboured tirelessly to ensure an integral part of her culture isn’t lost.

It's possible for the city to convert Main Street to two-way traffic east of Wellington Street, says a new Hamilton plan meant to guide transportation decisions. But converting Main west of Wellington is too complicated to try right now.

Hamilton police are looking to add 26 more rifles capable of stopping criminals wearing body armour.

Police were called to the Jackson Square Mall doors near King Street and Summers Lane around 11 a.m. by a person who claimed they saw a young woman try to steal the child and flee.

Hamilton police are continuing to investigate a fatal hit and run that took the life of Troy Armstrong, 20 years ago on June 20.

An Ancaster city councillor says a local school board has declared war by wanting to sever 4.5 hectares of green space off the town's public high school.

Hamilton police are warning local businesses to be on the lookout for fraudsters posing as CEO's in need of fast cash.

Hamilton police say 38-year-old Jason Murray turned himself in to Sarnia police early Wednesday morning, one week after he went missing from St. Joe's West 5th mental health campus.

Bird-watchers in Hamilton say one of four baby peregrine falcons born at the city's Sheraton hotel last month has died.

Here's a look at the weather you can expect in Hamilton today.

Elizabeth Fleming isn't allowed to have the house she wants yet. But standing outside Hamilton's city council chambers, she already knows what she wants it to look like.

Hamilton police say a 40-year-old man was transported to hospital with unknown injuries from a construction site in Waterdown.

WestJet's discount airline Swoop took to the air on its maiden flight from Hamilton Wednesday, arriving on time in Abbotsford, B.C., at 7:42 a.m. PT.

A Hamilton man charged with second-degree murder says he was relying on his military training to "neutralize a threat" when he loaded a shotgun, ran outside and gunned down the man trying to steal his truck.

Hamilton police say 38-year-old Jason Murray has been arrested after he disappeared last Wednesday from St. Joe's West 5th mental health campus.

Here's a look at the weather you can expect in Hamilton today.

Dellen Millard's lawyer has dropped an application to have a lengthy video statement his client made to police ruled inadmissible at Millard's first-degree murder trial in the death of his father, Wayne.

The late student leader Shannen Koostachin from Attawapiskat might be tickled to learn that students themselves will decide whether her name will adorn a new school in Hamilton. Koostachin's name is one of the possibilities, and the number one recommendation from the naming advisory committee to the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board.

Jon Styres could have been bent double or even on the ground when he was shot by Peter Khill from just metres away, a forensic pathologist testified Monday.

The man in the prisoner's box cries for 20 minutes straight, but few in the courtroom seem to feel bad for him.

On Sunday, Gage Park played host to Hamilton's Pride event. Here's a snapshot of the day.

Hamilton police say two cars were involved in a street race before becoming involved in a multi-collision crash that killed a 25-year-old Hamilton woman.

Environment Canada has issued a serve thunderstorm warning for Hamilton.

A 26-year-old St Catharines woman is in critical condition after an incident at Arrowhead Provincial Park, in Huntsvile.

Tenille Howell, 13, went face-to-face on Sunday with a small group of 'street evangelists' who told her, she says, that she is "going to go to hell." The teen was at the Pride event in Hamilton's Gage Park that got underway around 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

Hamilton police say they have charged one of their own with six counts of sexual assault.

Documents submitted at Dellen Millard's first-degree murder trial show there is a one in five quadrillion chance that the DNA found on the handle of the gun that killed Millard's father, Wayne, belongs to anyone else but Dellen Millard himself.

The city of Hamilton has issued a heat warning. Environment Canada also warns that possible high levels of air pollution are expected Sunday.