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Local grocery stores throw out as much as 45 large bins of good food a week while food bank shelves are empty. Now the city is about to follow the advice of grade schoolers to figure out how to fix that.

A Hamilton man is being recognized by the Carnegie Hero Fund for saving a man who had slid into a ravine while trying to grab his dog.

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Hamilton has already made headlines for putting epinephrine auto injectors (EAIs) in malls. Now it's looking to roll out that program to 50 restaurants in Hamilton — with an eye on all of them.

Education Minister Mitzie Hunter announced new funding for school capital projects on Monday, including 10 new schools and 460 licensed child care spaces across the province.

Brantford city councillors met Monday to discuss options including potentially buying the historic church on Peel Street that was listed for $1 earlier this month.

There's been shouting, swearing and fractured friendships. Neighbours have given each other the finger. But in the end, Hamilton city councillors voted to let a local contractor close part of an unassumed alleyway that kids use to walk to school, and buy it for as little as $2.

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The Ontario Liberal government has come under pressure over the closing of rural schools in the province. But with changing demographics, it's an issue facing many small Canadian communities that fear it can have a significant negative impact on growth and their local economy.

Hamilton police’s oversight board announced Friday it will begin recruiting for a new deputy chief and a private sector chief administrative officer familiar with tasks like budgeting, human resources and IT.

Hamilton is under a severe thunderstorm watch, with possible torrential downpours and large hail on the way.

Someone used a knife to force her into a quiet area near the trail, police say.

A four-year-old boy drowned in his family's backyard pool in Hamilton's east end on Saturday.

Hamilton police’s use of the controversial carding or street checks tool dwindled to nearly nothing in 2016 – down to six recorded street checks last year, compared to more than 4,800 in 2012.

Premier Kathleen Wynne made a stop at Hamilton grocery store, The Mustard Seed Co-op, Friday morning to discuss plan to improve conditions for employees.

Hamilton police officers used force 172 times in 2016, significantly below the service’s 16-year average of 250 per year.

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

A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a minivan in Flamborough on Thursday evening.

Hamilton police are investigating a suspicious fire at a shop called "The Queen Fashion" on King St. W.

An organizer of the M-103 rally says they didn't know about the Pride one, and they're rescheduling too.

Fire investigators say smoke inhalation is what caused the death of a mother and her two children at their home in the area of Upper Ottawa Street and Limeridge Road in Hamilton.

Brantford city councillors voted to add a layer of heritage designation under the Ontario Heritage Act to St. Jude's church. That would restrict what owners could do to the murals and components that got the church recognized as a national heritage site in 1993.

Karim Baratov, the Hamilton man who is facing charges related to a massive hacking of Yahoo email addresses, is considering waiving his extradition hearing to go straight to trial in the U.S.

A man who survived a plunge over Niagara Falls without protection in 2003 has died after he went over again, this time inside an inflatable ball.

Hamilton Fire are still on scene battling a house fire on Napier Street in Dundas.

Seven people are facing drug charges after police say officers raided a large marijuana growing operation in south of Brantford.

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An empty Target store located at the Centre on Barton will play host to five pop-up events this summer as a way to engage the community and make use of the space.

Hamilton’s police chief will not equip front-line officers with life-saving anti-overdose kits, even after other police forces in the province and around the country have used them on themselves and members of the public who’ve been exposed to fentanyl.

Hamilton city councillors will discuss buying their own “civic rings” after a plan to budget $5,000 every four years for rings for outgoing councillors sparked some opposition.

They got several offers this week, but “none quite reached what the seller’s minimum requirements were,” said their realtor, Roy Rodrigues.

Erendira Wallenda could be seen gracefully performing acrobatic moves - not out of the ordinary for a daredevil who's part of the famous Wallenda family. The difference Thursday was she was dangling from a helicopter, by her teeth and then toes, over Niagara Falls.

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Three people are dead after a house caught fire in the area of Upper Ottawa Street and Limeridge Road in Hamilton.

A Pickering man drowned on Wednesday while swimming in Lake Erie.

A Hamilton PC candidate who claims he lost the nomination because of voter fraud ballot box stuffing isn't letting the issue drop. Now he's asking an Ontario court to review it.

A crash between a car and a dump truck has closed Highway 5 between Brock Road and Middletown Road in Flamborough.

It was the first full month of sales after the provincial government announced measures meant to cool hot housing markets in Toronto, Hamilton and the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

Toronto police believe they have located one of the weapons used in the fatal shooting of a 33-year-old Hamilton man in April of this year.

Daredevil trapeze-artist Erendira Wallenda says she'll be tethered to a helicopter Thursday as it flies over Niagara Falls hanging on only by her toes and teeth.

Police say a warrant has been issued for Hamilton resident Richard Shields, 57, in relation to the break-ins.

Hamilton Pride is a robust affair this month, with rallies, barbecues, film screenings, worship services, legal panels and a party on the bay. But it hasn't come easy.

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All but one lane of the QEW has reopened after a transport truck that rolled over shut the highway down in the St. Catharines area beginning Tuesday afternoon.

A single transport truck carrying flammable, hazardous chemicals has rolled over on the Queen Elizabeth Way highway west of Martindale Road in St. Catharines.

Michael Lane, a Toronto-based photographer in his early twenties, was confirmed by several friends as the victim in Saturday's accident.