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The Barton Street Battalion, a supporters group preparing for the return of soccer to Hamilton. Other groups across the country are doing the same, hoping their city will also get a team when the CPL kicks off.

It might officially be the first day of fall, but Hamilton is still firmly in the grip of summer heat.

Health Canada is analyzing an “unknown substance” that sent a jail guard to hospital Thursday afternoon, police announced today.

Are you ready to have the best garden on your block? Here's how: Ask an expert. Be part of our award-winning live chat with expert gardeners. Also listen to the call-in show with Ontario Today's Ed Lawrence. Call in by dialling 1-888-817-8995 on Monday.

Alectra utilities is warning Hamiltonians about a phone scam targeting its customers.

Pier 8's waterfront promenade will be designed around a theme that plays off the city's industrial and waterfront heritage.

Hamilton police are investigating after an 80-year-old man using a walker was struck by a reversing truck in a lower city parking lot and rushed to hospital.

A group of protestors began occupying an Enbridge Line 10 construction site in Jerseyville this morning, protesting what they call the oil giant’s “failure to appropriately consult with Indigenous Nations.”

Horwath, leader of the Ontario NDP party, plans to call Friday morning for the coroner’s office to undertake a public review of the deaths. The appeal comes after the hospital released a review it commissioned earlier this summer.

Ticat Adrian Tracy's whole family is moving to Hamilton, one by one. Musician Harrison Kennedy says the city is "no longer tribal." They're among five Hamiltonians who shared their meaningful places with us. Share yours too.

After an investigation by the coroner's office into the death of a Hamilton man in his 60's, who was bit by a dog Wednesday, it was determined the man died of natural causes according to police.

Layoff notices have been handed out to 255 workers at the General Motors transmission-making factory in St. Catharines, Ont., as effects spread from a strike that started Sunday at the GM CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont.

A number of other correctional officers from the same shift also went to hospital as a precaution

Hamilton's school bus driver shortage has gotten worse since the beginning of September and it's not projected to get better until October 16 according to Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board chair Todd White.

Dave Hanley, the co-founder of Pop Up Hamilton, has died.

A man is dead after a crash in Caledonia last night, Ontario Provincial Police say.

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

'We've been a part of a lot of good things in this city. The uncomfortable reality is that we've changed it in other ways as well.'

A man in his mid-60s has died after being bitten by a dog in east Hamilton today, police say — but it isn't clear what impact the bite had on his death.

Some furrowed their brows. Some fidgeted in their seats. Some whispered to each other, and took notes, and sighed loudly at the ceiling. But in the end, most Hamilton city councillors seemed to wish the mayor didn't bring up the idea of racist statues.

The city will sink $1 million a year for the next 10 years into getting Indigenous Hamiltonians out of poverty — a move one worker says is a turning point.

As a result of an investigation that began in August, one man has been charged with human trafficking related offences and two other men have been charged with drug-related offences.

Investigators with the province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) are looking to speak with anyone who may have witnessed the arrest of a woman in the parking lot of Burlington Mall on Sept. 14.

Steve Lechniak, 67, didn’t think for a moment about whether he’d be able to find work when he graduated from high school in Hamilton in the late 1960s. But the world looks a lot different for his son, Michael, 35.

Niagara College will be the first to offer a post-secondary certificate in the production of commercial cannabis.

Over the course of two days at Supercrawl, hundreds of people took the opportunity to answer one of two questions: "Hamilton is ...?" and "Hamilton needs ...?" Here's a look at what they said.

Hess Village bar owners pay thousands extra each year for police to patrol during rowdy weekend nights. Now Hamilton city councillors have taken the first step toward scrapping that.

Tiny homes are gaining momentum across North America as a way to get homeless people into affordable housing. Now Hamilton decision makers will look at how to use some of the city's laneways to build tiny homes here.

The city says police are investigating after an overnight bus shelter vandalism spree.

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

Attending the International Plowing Match is one of the sacred cows of Ontario politics, with members of all parties repeating this ritual each September, but the event has probably never been less important.

In the spirit of examining Hamilton’s identity, lets take a look at what outsiders are saying about the city.

At least two upcoming splash pad projects are on track to exceed $600,000 — twice the amount of some other cities. And while two city councillors say this seems fishy, city staff insist those numbers don't tell the whole story.

Hamilton police say they are investigating a BB gun shooting outside a local theatre this weekend.

Homicide detectives have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a Toronto man, 24, identified in the point-blank shooting that led to the death of a man in a parking lot near Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue West last April.

McMaster University is banning all smoking on its campuses effective Jan. 1, 2018, the university announced today.

For a city its size, Hamilton is a wasteland for transgender health care resources. But the city's board of health Monday is poised to take at least baby steps toward changing that.

Niagara Regional Police are looking for two men who held up a pharmacy in Grimsby.

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

Petra Matar, 29, wants to see development in Hamilton take context and culture into account, not just treat lots and buildings like a "blank slate."

This week and next, we at CBC Hamilton invite you to join us as we explore Hamilton’s identity crisis, and what this junction looks like for workers, residents, commuters, newcomers and lifers who call Hamilton home.

A barefoot four-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Burlington Sunday evening has been found safe.

A stolen angel containing a child’s ashes has been returned to an east Hamilton home after someone found it in a parking lot. Now the mother who posted about it says she’s crying “happy tears.”

It was the last chance for Charlie Angus, Niki Ashton, Guy Caron and Jagmeet Singh to make their pitches to New Democrats before voting begins Monday.

Police are looking for leads after apparent gun shots were fired in an alley in central lower Hamilton overnight.

Officials are trying to figure out what started it.

Check out some brand new music from White Hot Guilt, Ten Sleep and Sarah Cripps.

Saskatchewan quarterback Brandon Bridge threw three touchdown passes in just his second career start, and the Roughriders held on to defeat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 27-19 in front of 23,604 at Tim Hortons Field on Friday night.

Are you ready to have the best garden on your block? Here's how: Ask an expert. Be part of our award-winning live chat with expert gardeners. Also listen to the call-in show with Ontario Today's Ed Lawrence. Call in by dialling 1-888-817-8995 on Monday.

A Hamilton police officer who witnessed a contentious interaction between another officer and a city councillor told a hearing Friday that the way the councillor spoke to his partner rubbed him the wrong way.