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Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Hamilton Friday afternoon.

Next week Niagara will play host to the first conference focused on growing cannabis, something that is becoming a mainstream product with legalization set for next July.

Hamilton police are now trying to locate a truck they say was used to smash 19 bus shelters Sept. 19 between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.

Hamilton police are trying to find a man who they say chased down a woman in her car, blocked her in the road and then sexually assaulted her.

Here's a pretty great list of things to do this weekend in Hamilton.

An investigation into an east Mountain fire that killed a mother and two of her children has shown the fire was caused by careless smoking.

Police are warning the public about a man and a woman they say are wanted in connection with what investigators are calling a "crime spree" across southern Ontario.

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

On the Mountain, you can wake up to a changed neighbourhood overnight. In the lower city, an old brick building near a former crack den is now a goldmine. Meanwhile, an 1874 church in Hannon is a bit of refuge in a land of construction.

City planners recommend that the province upgrade the Highway 5 and 6 interchange within the next five years and add a lane in each direction to Highway 403 between the Linc and Main Street.

As house prices rise, the temptation to sell increases. In this commentary, Mountain resident Doug Sikkema ponders the personal and community costs of taking advantage of that real estate boom.

The city will hold a low-cost rabies vaccine and microchipping event at Gage Park this weekend.

It was Donna Skelly versus the rest of Hamilton city council Wednesday. She wanted to wait to pass a poverty reduction strategy because of a troubling audit report. Another councillor called that "unconscionable" and referenced Skelly was wearing a tinfoil hat.

Provincial NDP leader Andrea Horwath introduced a private member’s bill at Queen’s Park this morning that would give 10 days of paid leave to people enduring domestic abuse or sexual violence.

Young Marcel Ward brought his talent to Canada from Syria, and he already has plans to perform for the whole world.

Canadian mountaineer Peter Zabrok says he's lucky to be alive after watching a massive slab of granite break off beneath his climbing route on the legendary El Capitan rock wall in Yosemite National Park.

Three people are now facing charges in connection with the shooting death of a 27-year-old Six Nations man.

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

It epitomizes Hamilton's creative renaissance. Art Crawl has become more successful than anyone ever dreamed — and that success is dredging up problems.

Hess Village bar owners will continue paying extra policing costs after Hamilton police warned the area is too busy and too crime ridden to scrap the program altogether.

Stelco has filed initial paperwork to take the steelmaking company public, nearly three months after emerging from bankruptcy protection.

The past four days of temperatures that broke the 30-degree mark have never occurred this late in September, according to records going back to 1960 from Hamilton’s John C. Munro International Airport.

CBC Hamilton is digging into questions about Hamilton's changing identity, and what that means for workers, renters, retirees, commuters, homeowners, students and others who call the city home. Here are some highlights of what you've shared.

The CFL announced Wednesday it won't approve a contract for former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel until next season, and only if the quarterback met certain conditions stipulated by commissioner Randy Ambrosie.

After days of blazing, late September sun, Hamilton’s medical officer of health has cancelled the city’s heat warning.

Flashy Toronto developer Brad Lamb, who wants to build 30 and 40-storey condo towers in Durand chatted with socially minded councillor Matthew Green about development, identity, affordability and the future of Hamilton.

Hamilton police say they’re trying to track down two expensive, high-end, mountain bikes that were stolen from a Westdale home sometime in the last few days.

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

Hamilton city council is poised to spend as much as half a million dollars trying to lure Amazon to the city. Now city council will debate asking the feds and province for help.

Port Authority president and CEO Ian Hamilton writes that the old Hamilton is changing, but the new Hamilton can be built on innovating and evolving the city's existing strengths.

Hamilton police say they’re investigating after the homeowners of a central Mountain home woke up to people breaking in Tuesday morning.

The provincial police watchdog is investigating an incident in Hamilton after a man fell from his second floor apartment when police were knocking on his door.

Televangelist David Mainse, founder of Burlington-based Crossroads Christian Communications, died Monday at the age of 81.

On Monday night city councillors and Hamilton police held a public meeting to discuss recent crime in Wards 6,7, and 8. Police say there's no significant increase.

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

How do people who’ve moved here in the last few years and spend hours every day commuting, feel about their new lives, their new city and building community?

Hamilton police have charged a 52-year-old after he smashed two cab windows, injuring a driver.

Hamilton police say they have arrested a bleeding man trying to sell stolen jewellery after a trail of blood was found at a crime scene.

Donna Skelly, elected to city council last year, will make her third run for a provincial seat. Another candidate has been working toward the nomination for a year.

A 16-year-old is facing assault and drug charges after an early morning stabbing in the lower city, police say.

Second objective of the City Motor Hotel expropriation completed, says councillor, CityHousing Hamilton to purchase the site for a mixed-use residential development for seniors.

Hamilton set new heat records Saturday and Sunday, as an unseasonable hot and humid wave of weather blanketed the city. The heatwave continues early this week.

A 51-year-old woman is dead after a motorcycle crash on the Toronto-bound lanes of the Burlington Skyway Monday morning.

Here are six places where Hamilton's history is forging together with new ideas.

Environment Canada is warning of poor air quality and forecasts that air pollution levels could pose a health risk for residents in the Hamilton area on Sunday due to an ongoing heat wave.

Environment Canada has issues a heat warning for Hamilton. Unseasonably warm temperatures are expected to continue into the beginning of the week

Check out some brand new music Teen Ravine, Adult Future and Monowhales.

A Hamilton police officer who was struck by a vehicle on Friday afternoon while enforcing the speed limit has been treated at a hospital for minor injuries and released.

CBC Hamilton has invited you to join us as we explore Hamilton's identity crisis, and what the changing city looks like for people who call Hamilton home. Here's some of how you have already responded.

CBC's Queen's Park analyst Robert Fisher provides his take on the lay of the land in Queen's Park as this latest legislative session settles in.