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Hamilton drew the highest number of tourists in recent memory last year, with 4.5 million visitors bringing $360 million in spending. But the city's celebrated boom in general is slowing.

More inmates have overdosed and died inside the Barton Street jail than any other provincial corrections institute in Ontario over the last several years, CBC News has learned.

Brant County OPP announced Wednesday that no charges will be laid in the case of an Ontario father who accidentally ran over his daughter on Christmas Day.

Hamilton police are trying to find a missing Hamilton senior who suffers from dementia who wandered away from a lower city retirement home on Tuesday.

Stay warm, Hamilton — the city will endure a “prolonged period of very cold wind chills” this week, according to Environment Canada.

Hamilton man Mario Alves took home the world champion title after competing against 25 other masons at the Spec Mix Bricklayer 500 World Championship.

A smelly east-end composting facility that's been shuttered since last June will open its doors again next week.

The collision was enough to wrench the bucket off the truck, scattering its load of salt across the upbound lanes of the road.

Hamilton will be well represented at the Juno Awards this year, with Arkells, Monster Truck and Diana Panton all vying for the top honours in Canadian music.

A city manager in charge of Hamilton's roads says February and March will be especially heinous for potholes.

Norfolk County OPP were called to a Port Dover house around 2:30 p.m. Monday and found a large whitetail doe standing calmly on a sofa bed.

Sarah McLachlan will host this year's Juno Awards in London, Ont., where pop star Shawn Mendes, Grammy-winning R&B singer The Weeknd and DJ duo Loud Luxury will be among the top nominees vying for Canadian music honours.

Travellers are told to expect quickly changing conditions with heavy blowing snow and "near zero visibility."

Hamilton's public and Catholic schools are closed today as the city tries to clean up from a major snowfall that has left many roads in poor condition.

The day after Hamilton police raided and seized four Georgia Peach locations, it reopened in a new location ready for business.

Hamilton residents have complained 387 times so far this winter about neighbours not clearing their snowy sidewalks and many readers weighed in on the debate about whether the city should clear sidewalks.

Endaayaang, meaning 'Our Home' in Ojibwe, is an Indigenous youth homeless project in Hamilton. It was announced in November 2017, but after some delays and perfecting the program, they will officially start accepting clients starting in February.

Star receiver Brandon Banks has signed a two-year extension with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Hamilton police say the truck's bucket was raised when it hit the bridge. Salt cleanup could take up to four hours.

Watch the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) reveal the 2019 Juno Award nominees at 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 29.

With snow already falling and more in the forecast, Hamilton and Burlington are getting ready to starting to dig out and asking residents for help.

Drivers who use Highway 407 will be paying higher fees starting Feb. 1. Tolls on the highway will climb by as much as 14 per cent when the new fees go into effect.

The Hamilton-Tiger Cats are searching for a passionate, charismatic and energetic person who can perform the Oskee Wee Wee chant and represent fans with "pride and integrity."

Officers were called to a home on Austin Crescent in Simcoe, Ont. around 9:03 a.m. on Jan. 25 after the child dialled the emergency number looking for help.

Drivers are told to expect a "significant impact" on their commute home tonight and when they head back to work Tuesday.

A Hamilton man has been charged with assault after a fight between "yellow vest" picketers and anti-fascism protesters.

A Hamilton man was stabbed multiple times at a patio on the Mountain this weekend, and police say the suspect has turned himself in.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told an interviewer in Davos this week that if the U.S. drops its steel and aluminum tariffs, Canada will too, "30 seconds later." But until that happens, the tariffs remain lucrative: They raked in $839 million in the six months leading up to Dec. 31.

Check out new music from JoJo Worthington, B.A. Johnston and EDDYEVVY.

Fifteen-year-olds don't think, too often, about the grandchildren they might have some day. But in Paul Paterson's Canadian History class, they're building the future they want their grandkids to have — and it's so exciting that Canada's Governor General has taken notice.

More than 21 million rides were recorded on HSR buses in 2018, but projections in the city's 10-year transit plan say that number should be about two million higher.

The city has issued a cold alert effective Friday night, as frigid temperatures are set to hit Hamilton once again.

Try as they might, the owners of a Hells Angels clubhouse in Welland aren’t getting their building back.

Provincial police are looking for help after a federal inmate allegedly breached his supervised release.

A police spokesperson said 25 people were arrested and a total of 50 charges were laid.

Police say the man was being removed from the flight for smoking on the tarmac.

Hamilton police have arrested a 13-year-old they say was waving a firearm outside Ancaster High School.

A woman who once claimed to be Paul Bernardo's "No. 1 fan" has been sentenced to another month in jail for violating a court order by working at the Binbrook Fair.

David-Allen Smith's family is looking for answers after he hung himself at a Good Shepherd men's shelter back in December.

Cameron Kroetsch says for some people, the snow makes our city impassable.

Investigators say the shooting sent a man in his 20s to hospital where he remains in stable condition.

Hamilton police have charged Richard Taylor, 42, with the "financially motivated" murder of his mother and stepfather in connection with a fire at his childhood home in Dundas investigators say was intentionally set.

Auchmar Mansion just moved a step closer to being Hamilton's newest museum.

The city is helping the Hamilton Tiger-Cats bid to host the Grey Cup, but taxpayers aren't allowed to know what hosting the match would cost them yet.

A Niagara police officer who investigators say was running a massage business from home has been charged with five counts of sexual assault.

Zeus's death marks the second time a walrus at the park has died in the past 19 months, after a female walrus named Sonja's "surprise" death in May 2017.

Ontario will not move forward with a controversial element of proposed legislation that could have opened up the province's protected Greenbelt to development.

Seventeen times last year, the city dumped partially treated sewage into Hamilton Harbour. Now city councillors will vote on whether the public should know right away.

A Hamilton woman living near Washington, D.C., is seeing the painful impact of the United States government shutdown. Many in her community are struggling to get by without pay.

A Canadian think tank released its often-controversial ranking of elementary schools in Ontario on Sunday, and Hamilton-area schools can be found both at the top and the bottom of the rankings.