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St. Peter's Hospital patients have to relocate as result of smoke from fire Sunday morning.

A new survey of almost 2,000 health-care workers found staggering rates of violence experienced by front-line staff.

A man was seen assaulting his dog and was charged with causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.

Sunday in Hamilton brings lots of rain, mostly in the afternoon and into the evening, according to a special weather statement issued by Environment Canada.

A vision to change the way public health units are managed in Ontario is not sitting well with municipalities across the province, and Waterloo regional councillors have sent their concerns to the Ministry of Health.

Check out brand new music from Megan Landry, Iskwe and Majid Jordan.

The Canadian Down Syndrome Society has launched a new campaign, entitled "Anything But Sorry: The 'S' Word" to change the perceptions of Canadians about the birth of a baby with Down syndrome.

Two Indigenous communities in Ontario and Alberta will be working with a research team in McMaster in a water quality project over the next three years.

Sophie Geffros recalls waiting on a freezing January night, in a wheelchair, for more than an hour for a bus. Environment Hamilton says the HSR is "approaching and crisis" and wants to hear from riders like Geffros.

The ongoing trial into the presumed murder of Toronto's Laura Babcock has heard from a number of her close friends. Many told the jury how they offered her a sympathetic ear or place to stay. These are some of their stories.

Part of the Red Hill Valley Parkway will be closed for four hours Sunday for the Road2Hope marathon.

Stelco Holdings Inc. shares gained almost 13 per cent on its first day of trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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

The Sudbury bribery trial is over. The judge went beyond saying Pat Sorbara and Gerry Lougheed were not guilty. He said there was no merit to the charges at all and acquitted them. Despite that ruling the trial continues to plague the Liberals. Queen's Park analyst Robert Fisher explains how.

The Sudbury bribery trial may be done in the court but it's not over for the Liberals. Polling shows voters rank it up there alongside the gas plant scandal and the current college teachers' strike.

The next closest LCBO-run stand-alone shops will be Kitchener and Mississauga.

A man in his 50s was sent to hospital by air ambulance after being trapped on a Flamborough farm Friday morning.

Detectives who seized evidence during the search for Laura Babcock, who disappeared in July 2012, testified Friday at the Toronto murder trial of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich.

No matter how hard Steve Smith has tried, he hasn't been able to kill Red Green. The Hamilton-based comedian figured he was ready to hang up the character's suspenders and duct tape for the last time.

Hamilton police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying suspects who took a banking machine from a Hamilton restaurant.

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

It's the most significant reform to policing in a generation, according to the Wynne government, and it's being greeted largely with cheers from groups pushing for more police accountability but with alarm by the unions representing officers.

Can you smell that? It’s a hazy new age of marijuana acceptance, wafting over Canada — but sadly, two of this country’s trailblazing pot pioneers aren't around to experience it.

Hamilton police have arrested and charged a 38-year-old Hamilton man for a string of robberies at commercial stores across the city last month.

The city is asking HSR bus drivers to work up to 68 hours a week due to what it says are absenteeism issues — and now, the union that represents bus drivers is calling for Hamilton's transit director to be fired.

Hamilton's visible minority population has more than doubled over the last 20 years, new data shows, now making up 18.6 per cent of the total population in the city.

When Laura Babcock's cellphone was used for the last time, it was to make a 60-second call to voicemail — a call that connected to a cellphone tower a few hundred metres from accused killer Dellen Millard's home, according to Crown evidence.

A woman was rushed to hospital after a hit and run in central Hamilton yesterday afternoon, police say.

For decades, debate has raged about the demise of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda — and now, researchers hope they are inching closer to the truth of what caused his death.

Clint Baker's YouTube channel for car wash reviews, Reviews by Vince, has hundreds of dedicated subscribers. He started the channel so he could show videos of his car washes to his autistic son.

A Hamilton cyclist was rushed to hospital with major injuries Wednesday afternoon after a collision with a dump truck in Waterdown, police say.

A provincial mediator has called the parties in the college teachers' labour dispute back to the bargaining table.

The City of Hamilton has released the bid it sent to Amazon for HQ2. The document pitches Hamilton's arts and culture scene, low violent activity and growing millennial population.

A Norfolk County senior was scammed, police say, out of $152,000 after being told the senior had won a $24.9M lottery.

Hamilton receiver Brandon Banks and quarterback Jeremiah Masoli and Edmonton quarterback Mike Reilly are the CFL's top performers for October.

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

Hamilton city councillors want medical marijuana producers to grow on old industrial brownfields instead of farmland. But at least two such companies say the city's urban air is too polluted.

Hamilton police say three teenagers are facing robbery charges after allegedly trying to rob an 80-year-old man near Lime Ridge Mall on Monday evening.

The city will look into how much it will cost to light up an eight-metre red cross that used to beam down from the escarpment.

So many of you are going all out this year, so we just had to share some of the incredible costumes plastered all over social media today.

Police officers had a little help from people near the scene of a collision on Monday afternoon.

Hamilton police have released images of a man whom they say robbed a chocolate shop in Westdale over the weekend.

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

The ups and downs of Laura Babcock's life, and the final days before her disappearance in the summer of 2012, are again scrutinized as the trial into her alleged murder continues in Ontario Superior Court in Toronto.

One of Laura Babcock's best friends reveals more vicious texts in feud between Babcock and Christina Noudga, a girlfriend of co-accused killer Dellen Millard. The prosecution has pointed to the love triangle as the possible motive for Babcock's alleged murder. Babcock was a problem Millard promised Noudga he would get rid of.

It will take months for engineers to determine the exact cause of an explosion that obliterated a lower city home last week, Ontario Fire Marshal investigators say.

A little Niagara church built by Harriet Tubman and other freed slaves is falling down, and desperate volunteers say they need at least six figures to save it.

The families of two men who took their own lives while inpatients at the region’s mental health specialty hospital are suing the hospital for negligence.

Global K-9 Detection Services is using dogs to fight the city’s bedbug infestation. The company owners says using dogs to find bed bugs is fast and efficient.

Hamilton police arrested two men and seized more than $30,000 worth of fentanyl patches and a heroin-fentanyl mix known as "popcorn" on Thursday.