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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.

Jason Butler's two-year-old daughter Foster died in a Hamilton hospital several days after he accidentally ran over her with his truck, and now he's struggling to cope with the grief.

The non-emergency calls to 911 in Norfolk County keep flooding in and the OPP are again reminding residents dialling the number in a non-urgent situation could have serious consequences.

In 2009 we were hit with the H1N1 strain of the swine flu. It triggered widespread vaccinations. More than 120 people died in Ontario. And now it’s back. Dr. Bryna Warshawsky, a medical director with Public Health Ontario, tells us what we need to know about this year's strain.

Hamilton's parks department has committed to taking down all soccer nets every fall and is even going so far as to ask the groups that use the fields if the nets are necessary after a deer was euthanized because it became tangled in one.

The 20-year-old victim suffered non-life threatening injuries and was later transported to a trauma hospital for further treatment.

James Kaspersetz says he'll withdraw his name to serve on the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority board again after a Facebook post saying Islamic law is being adapted in the United States.

The female pedestrian was crossing the road at the intersection of Barton Street East and Lottridge Street on Nov. 20 when she was allegedly struck as the 41-year-old man made a left turn onto Barton.

Hamilton could endure a blast of winter weather Monday night with freezing rain possible in the region, Environment Canada says.

Charges against a Hamilton man on trial for robbing a local pot dispensary were withdrawn in court on Monday, but Nathaniel Golden wasn’t there in the prisoner’s box to hear that his own trial had ended.

Brock University professor David Schimmelpenninck apologizes for past behaviour following sexual harassment investigation and discipline.

Taylor was the keyboardist and vocalist in the Burlington-based indie pop group. He died of "natural causes" in his sleep on Dec. 29, according to a statement from the band.

A Hamilton man who police say had been suspended for life from driving is now facing several charges after a hit and run incident in the east end Sunday evening.

OPP officers were called to a home on Hendry Street in Simcoe around 7 a.m. on Jan. 3 after a dog located drugs inside the house.

The finance minister spoke with Metro Morning about the rationale behind Ontario's cannabis retail licence lottery — and what they'll do if they pull someone who doesn't meet the province's qualifications.

The Radiation Safety Institute of Canada says it has been contacted with concerns following an announcement that 25 women with cervical cancer may have received faulty radiation therapy at the Juravinski Cancer Centre.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Hamilton, Welland, Grimsby, St. Catharines and the Niagara Region, warning of a "wintry mix" with up to 2 cm of snowfall.

Police say the woman was not shot by the gun, but suffered injuries and was taken to hospital.

Police say a second suspect has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 53-year-old man in St. Catharines.

The first train of the new service rolled out of Niagara Falls Monday morning at 5:19 a.m. making a stop in St. Catharines before continuing on to Toronto's Union Station.

Niagara Regional police have charged a 28-year-old man from Welland, Ont. with second-degree murder after the death of a 53-year-old man in St. Catharines Saturday.

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

The Brock University Student Sexual Violence Support Centre says the university needs more resources to tackle sexual violence on campus. The recommendation comes after Brock confirmed that a professor disciplined following a sexual harassment investigation is returning to the classroom next week.

A firefighter wearing a cold water immersion suit and harness waited until the man floated by, then swam out and grabbed him.

The remains are "unidentifiable," according to police, who will be working with the coroner.

Ontario's police watchdog has cleared a Niagara Regional Police officer following a high-speed vehicle pursuit and arrest using a police dog that resulted in serious injuries.

December statistics from the Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) show 534 sales last month. The average price was up by 2.6 per cent to $543,210.

A two-year-old girl who was hit in a Brant County driveway on Christmas Day has died of her injuries.

When Shannon Balfour read that 70 per cent of Hamilton Police Service sexual assault cases from 2010 to 2016 were incorrectly deemed unfounded, she knew exactly why.

Brock University says a professor who was found to have sexually harassed one of his students in 2014 will be back in the classroom next week.

The woman was walking with her dog along St. Clair Avenue near Main Street in Hamilton around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, police say, when a man she didn't know tried to take her pet.

Hamilton Health Sciences says radiation may not have been targeted correctly for 25 cervical cancer patients at Hamilton's Juravinski Cancer Centre who had a specific type of radiation in 2017 and 2018.

A 20-year-old Hamilton man was arrested yesterday after police say he crashed with a Canadian Pacific freight train at the Cochrane Road train tracks and fled.