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Infamous mob scion Pat Musitano is expected to survive being shot multiple times outside his lawyer’s office in Mississauga last week.

Hamilton has lost a legal challenge to get out of paying part of its Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) levy. City councillors say they're frustrated and confused by it, and not ready to give up the fight.

Dakota Lanktree, a documentary filmmaker from Hamilton, teamed up with a stranger in Toronto, Florence O'Connell, to organize strikes in the two cities. The number of planned walkouts has since grown to 25 cities across the province.

This year sees 15 new sites opening their doors to the public for the annual event, which has taken place in Ontario since 2002.

Ontario's Education Minister Lisa Thompson continues to say not one job will be lost due to class size increases. But a teacher in Brantford, Ont. who has been tracking all of the cuts across the province says the number is closer to 2,000.

Four people from Montreal with ties to street gangs have been charged with attempted murder after an attack on two members of the Luppino crime family in Hamilton.

Hamilton police are trying to find two suspects who allegedly tried to smash display cases at a jewelry store at Lime Ridge Mall in the middle of the day.

Niagara financier Peter Corbière has been arrested by provincial police on fraud and theft charges.

Hamilton police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down a man they say is wanted for several violent offences.

Hamilton's public school board says it is laying off 99 teachers after cuts to provincial funding.

On Tuesday, Halifax Regional Council approved the police board's recommendation to appoint Dan Kinsella to the post previously held by Jean-Michel Blais, who retired in April.

In a statement issued Tuesday the HCA said residents near the lakefront should exercise caution as the storm surge and waves expected to be caused by wind gusts up to 60 km/h could lead to "significant erosion, flooding and public safety hazards."

The collision happened after the truck reversed through an alley and into the car, staying on scene for a moment, before being driven away, according to police, who reviewed security video of the crash.

A Hamilton man facing several warrants for his arrest, including on drug trafficking charges, was arrested Monday after police say he stole two bottles of cologne from a drug store.

Police have charged a second Hamilton man with dangerous driving causing bodily harm after a crash last month that sent three people to hospital with broken bones.

Imagine a futuristic Elysium-like tower that stretches 570 metres into the sky and includes tiered parks, sky fountains, aerial forests and a bicycle trail that stretches into the sky.

Paramedics were called to the Barton Street jail at around 1:50 p.m. Monday after reports of a male patient in his 20s who was found without vital signs, according to superintendent David Thompson.

Just months after Angelo Musitano was gunned down in his driveway, a fellow convicted mobster was caught on tape musing that Musitano’s brother, Pat, would be next.

The families of Canadians killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash last month have launched a lawsuit against plane maker Boeing. Also Monday, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg tried to bolster shareholder confidence in the company in his first AGM since two fatal crashes of the 737 Max triggered the jet's grounding, lawsuits and investigations.

Police say a Ford Ranger pickup was spotted driving at a "high rate of speed" along Dartnall Road around 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

A Norfolk County business is out $236,000, police say, after someone claiming to be the owner fooled an employee into paying a fake invoice.

Families, friends and supporters have gathered outside the jail several times in recent weeks, bearing signs demanding better care for the inmates inside as the number or overdoses and fatalities continues to rise.

Niagara Regional Council has decided to install suicide-prevention barriers on a St. Catharines bridge, but while advocates are celebrating the vote as a victory, they say more still needs to be done to support mental health in the area.

The OPP say three men and one woman, all from Welland, were arrested and charged with five counts of possessing cannabis for the purpose of selling, five counts of possessing cannabis for the purpose of distributing and proceeds of a crime over $5,000.

A Welland man is facing charges, police say, after someone allegedly stole cash and a safe from the Royal Canadian Legion.

With hopes to end homelessness by 2025, the city of Hamilton is hosting a public drop-in discussion on Monday afternoon to discuss their plan.

The Canadian Premier League kicked off in entertaining fashion Saturday in Hamilton, with substitute Kadell Thomas' 78th-minute goal lifting Forge FC into a 1-1 tie with visiting York9 FC.

Check out new music from Gelax, Taylor Knox and Heart Attack Kids.

It's been the backdrop for selfies. It's been lit for mental health awareness, and domestic violence prevention, and the Chinese New Year.

Here are the people in the region who have been targeted by mob violence in recent years.

Hamilton has a new soccer team made up of mostly Canadian athletes. They're facing Toronto's York9 FC in the Canadian Premier League's inaugural game on Saturday.

As communities face flooding, parts of Ontario have declared states of emergencies — shortly after the provincial government cut its funding for conservation authorities' flood management programs in half. Read our interview with a flood policy researcher.

To hear developer Jeff Paikin tell it, you don't really know you're entering a city when you head westbound on the QEW toward Hamilton. But he says his three planned Stoney Creek towers, roughly the size of Mississauga's Absolute World buildings, would change that.

There's been such a rash of gun violence in Brantford this year that police have set up a task force to deal with it.

The provincial government has taken away access to free prescription drugs for people under 25 if they have private insurance — a move that's left one Hamilton student with a chronic illness forced to make a tough decision with dangerous consequences.

Pat Musitano, reputed scion of the Hamilton crime family that shares his name, was shot Thursday after reportedly leaving a meeting with his lawyer. He remains in life-threatening condition.

A Toyota Highlander that was commandeered by two young girls early Thursday morning was involved in a hit and run, police say.

CFL players have given their bargaining unit a strong endorsement heading into the next round of collective bargaining with the league.

Notorious Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano has been shot. It happened in Mississauga, Ont., Thursday morning. He was rushed to a trauma centre where he remains in life-threatening condition, police said.

Hamilton police say Robert Betz, 47, was arrested on Wednesday after a woman came forward to report the incidents which allegedly happened between 2009 and 2014.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit says there are no grounds to lay criminal charges against a Hamilton police officer who responded to the shooting of Yosif Al-Hasnawi.

The province's budget cuts to Hamilton public health will be in "the low millions," which means the city will have to look at restructuring and cuts to local health services.

Investigators have released surveillance images of the two women they say took wheels of cheese from the Fortinos on New Street in Burlington on April 5.

Libraries in the rural communities that surround Hamilton are scrambling to figure out how to keep serving the public without a service that helped them offer readers thousands of books the libraries otherwise wouldn't be able to keep on their shelves.

Inside the trailer were supplies that volunteers use to set up traditional Métis encampments at schools and historical sites.

Hamilton Falconwatch tuns 25 years old this summer — and the chick-savers are looking for new members.

Brantford police are investigating after a 23-year-old was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body.

A windstorm in late February broke an ice boom in Lake Erie, bashing heavy chunks of ice over the barrier where they formed towering piles that closed a section of the Niagara Parkway and drew hundreds of selfie-seekers.

Police say they have found a knife in an alleyway where a 21-year-old man was allegedly stabbed on Tuesday afternoon.

Hamilton police say a fire burning in a vacant building on Beach Boulevard overnight was deliberately set, and is now being investigated as arson.