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Hamilton will send its bid to be the new home of Amazon via courier Wednesday. But even if the online retail giant doesn't choose here, says the city manager, this hasn't been a waste of money.

Local school boards have fined a school bus company more than $10,000 for the ongoing driver shortage that is still impacting 1,300 students.

Julianna Almeida,17, has been struggling with a rare disorder that has forced her into home schooling— and now her mother is trying to spread awareness and hoping more doctors will be better educated and equipped to treat patients.

Hamilton will commemorate late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie with a plaque at First Ontario Centre.

This year a father and son are putting on an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their transplant and to raise money to help others in the same situation.

The family of 37-year-old, Nicole Dragisic who was shot and killed in the doorway of her east Hamilton home Monday, is now raising money to help with funeral costs.

A 27-year-old St. Catharines woman has been charged with stunt driving after OPP say she was driving 200 km/h on the QEW.

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

Charges have been dropped against a local journalist who was arrested at the scene of a tense Waterdown crash in May. But a journalism advocacy group says it's still filing a police commission complaint.

Hamilton’s public school board is conducting a review of safety procedures at an Ancaster elementary school after a four-year-old student wandered away from school half naked last month.

Construction on Hamilton's light rail transit (LRT) system will likely exacerbate a problem with rats, and city health officials and Metrolinx have already met to talk about it.

Norfolk OPP say a report of vehicles swerving to avoid darkly-dressed pedestrians walking along murky rural roads Monday morning has prompted them to issue a warning to drivers to be extra careful now that daylight hours are shorter.

Hamiltonians will soon be able to say, “What happens in Vegas…” much more easily.

Hamilton is climbing through the ranks in an annual study of the best place in Canada to be a woman.

The economic mixed bag for the Hamilton census area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, is part of a new report from the Conference Board of Canada released Tuesday.

Police in Niagara region say two men from Hamilton have been charged with human trafficking.

Firefighters put out two fires in the lower city on Monday night - one in a home on St. Clair Boulevard and one in a garbage chute in an 18-storey building.

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

The White Stallions looked a little bored this week before waking up in time to steal a win on a last-second field goal, helping them maintain their top spot.

Kim Lackie's sobs are out of control when she tells the story of her son's death on the Lincoln Alexander Parkway. But on Monday, she told the story anyway.

The province-wide strike affects more than 500,000 students. Here's how it is affecting one Mohawk College student and a professor walking the picket line.

The OSPCA says the city has to fix its aviary. The city wants to close it. Volunteers are scrambling to keep it open.

Police say a 10-year-old boy was seriously injured after he fell about 25 metres down the Niagara Gorge on Sunday afternoon.

Provincial police say a jogger has died after being struck by an out-of-control pickup truck south of Hamilton.

New research out of Hamilton’s McMaster University suggests that bolstering fat cells in bone marrow could help fight leukemia.

A woman was gunned down in the doorway of an east Hamilton apartment building early Monday, and now, detectives are trying to piece together the city's 7th homicide of the year.

A province-wide strike among Ontario public college faculty has shut down classes and apprenticeship programs at Mohawk College in Hamilton and Niagara College.

Power is back on Monday morning after a wind storm created a busy Sunday afternoon and overnight for utilities crews.

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

In conjunction with other mosques around the country, Hamilton Muslims opened the doors to the Mountain mosque on Sunday to show visitors around, answer questions and try to prove "we're not the boogeyman."

A 36-year-old man died Friday night after being struck by a tractor trailer on the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway. The province's Special Investigations Unit is looking into the circumstances surrounding the death.

Environment Canada issued a wind warning for Hamilton, saying the strongest winds will come from the southwest this afternoon. Winds will be most potent along the lakeshore and over higher terrain, the national weather agency said.

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A group of Indigenous female developers in Hamilton, Ont., are putting their own cultural spin on the usually male-dominated video game industry.

Rene Paredes booted a 17-yard field goal on the final play of the game to earn the Calgary Stampeders an exciting 28-25 win over a spirited Hamilton Tiger-Cats squad Friday night.

Fred Eisenberger says medicinal marijuana is a "growing field" and a good investment. He's not worried about the optics.

As overdoses in Hamilton continue to rise, city staff are preparing a report on the feasibility of a supervised, safer injection site in the city.

Police have arrested a man and three teenagers they say crashed in St. Catharines with a gun and a vehicle full of stolen goods.

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

Already a leader on the Canadian national basketball team, Kia Nurse enters her senior year at the University of Connecticut in a similar role as the powerful team looks to avenge a bitter loss. But Nurse knows her influence can go beyond the hardwood.

The Progressive Conservatives have revealed more than 100 policy ideas that will form the backbone of their campaign platform in next year's Ontario election.

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

After a "disappointing" period where they hired a coach accused of covering up sexual assault, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats have joined a program designed to discourage violence against women.

Halton police are trying to track down two people who they believe are hitting shops in Burlington and stealing chewing gum, as part of an organized retail theft scheme.

Someone's been calling local businesses saying they're raising money for the Grimsby Fire Department, police say. And they're issuing a warning so no one falls for it.

Roger Deschamps used to wonder where his next meal would come from. Now five years sober and in stable housing, he'll attend an annual Wesley Urban Ministries feast where he gets to indulge his inner foodie.

A Niagara Falls man is charged with criminal harassment after police say he sent a city councillor threatening emails over a two-week period.

Faculty at Ontario colleges are set to hit the picket lines Monday morning over issues with precarious employment and academic policy.

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

The school bus driver shortage in Hamilton won't be resolved by the intended date of Oct. 16. Seven existing drivers have resigned since beginning of the school year.