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After an expensive, months-long fight for a new nomination race, Vikram Singh won't be a candidate in the new Ontario PC party contest after all. The party has rejected his candidacy.

After years of delay, the inquest into the deaths of eight men who died while in custody at the Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre is finally underway.

Police in Niagara Falls say a man and a woman are facing charges after a violent assault.

The Niagara Regional Police Service is investigating a crash that killed a 75-year-old man.

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Twelve years after losing her 10-year-old daughter in a car crash coming from a hockey game, Laurie Ulrich wants the community of Humboldt to know her thoughts are with them.

The drug deaths are happening against a backdrop of a broader city-wide drug problem and the inquest process itself is under scrutiny for how effectively it will search for solutions.

Hamilton police are looking for a male who robbed a Subway restaurant early Sunday morning at gunpoint on Barton Street East.

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A day after to responding to the traumatic scene where an eight-year-old girl was hit by a train, two police officers describe how it was emotional as they stepped in to save her life.

When Alyssa Vito found a lump in her breast at the age of 23, she was told she was too young to have cancer.

Distraction in the cockpit was likely to blame for a fighter jet crash near Cold Lake, Alta., that killed a Canadian Forces pilot, an investigation concludes.

A Hamilton cop standing trial on corruption charges says he continued to pursue a big drug bust of a major trafficker while on suspension to prove to his superiors they had made a mistake.

An eight-year-old girl was taken to hospital in critical condition Thursday after she was struck by a train near Gage Park, police said Thursday.

Hamilton police have announced Friday the arrest of 31-year-old Peter Hopperton in connection with the vandalism on Locke Street last month.

Hamilton's mayor says it will be a wild year for light rail transit (LRT) now that Ontario PC leader Doug Ford says the city can have $1.3 billion no matter what happens. Opponent Ted McMeekin, meanwhile, says Ford "doesn't understand accrual accounting."

Burlington police have come out with a list of top vehicles stolen so far this year and topping the list, Chevrolet Silverado.

A 65-year-old woman from Welland is dead after being struck by two vehicles as she crossed a street on Thursday night.

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An eight-year-old girl was taken to hospital in critical condition after she was struck by a train near Gage Park.

Shannon Windsor says her young children witnessed the shooting and that the 19 year old victim was the one who had called police for help.

The Hamilton region co-ordinator of Doug Ford's Ontario PC leadership campaign has thrown his hat into a controversial nomination contest.

A Hamilton cop who is facing a host of corruption charges says he wasn't being paid off by a drug dealer at all — instead, he flipped that same dealer after an arrest to become part of his huge stable of confidential informants.

She may only have two months to make good on the promise, but Premier Kathleen Wynne made a whistle stop in Hamilton this week to tell steelworkers she has their backs.

On Wednesday the Hamilton Police Service announced a new deputy chief and CAO.

175 cats from northern Ontario are hitting the road this week, on their way to animal welfare agencies in southern Ontario to be adopted.

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In a rare move, Ontario's Progressive Conservative leader will not bring journalists with him on the campaign trail this spring.

Ontario's police watchdog continues to investigate the day after officers in Hamilton shot and killed a 19-year-old man on Tuesday afternoon. A witnesses of the interaction recalls how events unfolded.

It's a windy Wednesday in Hamilton as winds gust to 90 km/h, and it's toppled giant KFC buckets, killed electricity and caused bricks to fly.

A man was shot Tuesday in Hamilton's central lower city in what police believe was a drug-related incident, and the suspect is still at large.

Police are searching for a suspect in a daylight robbery Tuesday who they say took money from someone at gunpoint while his friend watched.

Suspended Hamilton cop Craig Ruthowsky outright denied taking any money from drug dealers in exchange for police protection on Wednesday, as he began testifying at the corruption trial into his conduct.

A recent study from Switzerland suggests that rubber duckies are potential havens for disease-carrying bacteria. An expert in infectious disease from McMaster University explains how concerned you should be about household germs.

Police in the Niagara region say they've charged a driver who was clocked doing 75 kilometres an hour over the posted speed limit.

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The chief and council of Chippewas of the Thames First Nation have a strict message for people selling deadly drugs in their community — get out.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after Hamilton police shot and killed a man on Tuesday afternoon.

A former drug dealer who alleges Hamilton police officer Craig Ruthowsky sold him a cocaine press from a secret police location told a jury in Toronto Tuesday that he sought $100,000 from the authorities in exchange for his cooperation and testimony.

Hamilton police say a 29-year-old man was caught going 87 km/hr over the speed limit along the Red Hill Parkway early Saturday morning.

Police say a pickup truck smashed into a variety store in Dundas Tuesday morning around 3 a.m. This is the second time this has happened to the store.

Three men have been arrested, police say, after a kitchen supply store in Stoney Creek was robbed at gun point and the suspects crashed their getaway car.

A 29-year-old St. Catharines man is facing charges after allegedly using pepper spray in a government building last Wednesday.

Police say a woman was walking down a laneway in the area at about 3 a.m. when she was "accosted and sexually assaulted" by a group of five men.

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A CBC analysis of federal inmate deaths has found that drug-related fatalities nearly doubled between 2010 and 2016. Some provinces have given the responsibility for inmate health to health ministries - but not Ontario.

The Ontario government is pushing back against New York State's Buy American law by limiting public sector procurement with suppliers in that state, but the opposition is blasting the move as "grandstanding."

Hamilton Fire officials said both ramps from the Red Hill Valley Parkway to the QEW Toronto-bound are closed after a dump truck rolled over and spilled fuel onto the roadway.

Across the world in February for four days, people participated in a citizen birding program. In Hamilton, people spotted 88 species of birds.

The sun is expected to shine all day in Hamilton this Easter Monday, with a high of 6 C.