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A Brock University study shows most adults find their newborn babies to be uglier then expected. But their feelings change after the six-month-old mark.

The secret worlds of drug dealers, confidential informants and police undercover stings were all laid bare in a Toronto Superior Courtroom Monday, as the trial began for a Hamilton cop who is accused of working with the criminals he was supposed to be investigating.

The temperature hovered around zero that evening. It was low enough that people breathed into their cupped hands and shuffled their feet to keep warm. But for Tom Newton and Dave Lowe, it was just another day holding signs.

Two men who walked into a construction zone near the John Sopinka courthouse on Friday were armed with a hunting knife, two BB-style handguns and a smaller knife, police say.

The Grand River Conservation Authority and the City of Brantford will remove 75 to 100 trees over March Break to make way for better tall grassland habitat, used by the threatened eastern meadowlark.

The Turtle Meeting Place is the newest instalment of created spaces along the Red Hill Valley trail system where people can take a break and take a moment to learn about Indigenous history as it relates to the valley.

Christine Elliott is conceding defeat to Doug Ford, congratulating the new Ontario PC leader and promising to run for the party in the June provincial election.

Hamilton firefighters are reminding people to be careful with their cigarettes after a fire at a Corktown high rise this weekend.

It was supposed to be a glorious moment for the Ontario PCs: revealing their new leader in an energy-filled ballroom, showcasing a rejuvenated party to a big audience, proving to the voters that they are ready to win the election in June.

On Saturday there was a large outpouring of support for business owners on Locke Street impacted by the damage left behind by vandals last Saturday night.

Former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford was named the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader after a chaotic party convention, but runner-up Christine Elliott says she won't concede and that there were "serious irregularities" in the race.

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A 17-year-old woke up abruptly in his east end home Friday morning, when he was bashed across the mouth and nose with the butt-end of the gun as two men broke in to rob him, police say.

Detectives are searching for a suspect after a lone gunman walked into a Bank of Montreal on the Mountain on Thursday while brandishing a gun and demanding money.

Steelworker union leaders will be making a last-ditch effort over the weekend to work out a deal with a bidder that would keep Hamilton Specialty Bar operating.

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

Steeltown was relieved Thursday to hear U.S. President Donald Trump say Canada and Mexico would be exempted from his 25 per cent tariff on steel – for now, at least.

Provincial police say a woman is dead after a single-vehicle collision in Haldimand County.

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The city passed its operating budget Thursday. The change amounts to a 1.9 per cent increase over last year. That means the owner of a house valued at $337,100 will pay $75 more.

One spoke of watching her mom work extra hours at the dollar store just to buy Christmas gifts for her and her siblings. Another spoke of having to do more chores than her brother for the same amount of allowance — because women traditionally do the housework, she says, and that tradition carries on.

Canada Learning Code’s Hamilton Chapter and Broad Conversations co-hosted a feminist Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Mar. 6.

Police arrested a 30-year-old man on Wednesday who was working at a dispensary on King Street East even though he was restricted from being within 300 metres of the dispensary under bail conditions from another arrest two weeks ago.

The number of times in February where one or fewer ambulances were available to respond to emergency calls in Hamilton, new statistics show, remained well above the same month in previous years.

Hamilton city councillors say whoever's behind a high-profile vandalism spree on Locke Street are "faceless, gutless cowards" who can "ply their anarchy in jail."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has a "level of confidence" that Canada will secure an exemption from hefty U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, crediting robust outreach efforts by his Liberal government.

For the second time this week, a masked man with a weapon has robbed a local Shoppers Drug Mart of prescription narcotics.

Justin Trudeau will be in Hamilton on Tuesday, as part of his tour of regions of the country that are heavily reliant on the steel and aluminum industries in a show of solidarity for those who would be hurt the most by stiff U.S. tariffs.

Police in Niagara Falls say they've made a pair of arrests in a string of break-ins.

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On Wednesday, Hamilton police told reporters that police got into an altercation with wanted suspect, Donavan Hines who is wanted in connection to a shooting Monday.

A couple's charter rights were violated when a children's aid society closed the pair's foster home over their refusal to tell two young girls the Easter Bunny is real, an Ontario court has ruled.

A preliminary hearing for the Hamilton teen charged in the fatal shooting of Yosif Al-Hasnawi is tentatively scheduled for October.

Masked men with guns entered Shoppers Drug Mart on Tuesday night at 801 Mohawk Rd. W. demanding drugs.

Heavy delays have been reported on Main St. W. due to repair efforts of the city’s roadways after damage caused by another tough winter.

The city’s local anarchist social centre, The Tower, has been vandalized.

Police say a Hamilton man now faces drug trafficking charges after he was stopped in the east end Monday afternoon for smoking a joint in front of a cop while running a red light.

The manager of a recently raided Hamilton cannabis dispensary faced off with Premier Kathleen Wynne Tuesday to say Ontario's legalization plan is inadequate and won't stamp out the black market.

A Hamilton city councillor has been using a drone for three years to film traffic patterns, development properties and heritage buildings. But Ontario's privacy commissioner says the city needs stricter rules in place if elected officials are going to do that.

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Hamilton police are investigating another incident over the weekend where a woman was slashed in the head by a man.

Hamilton police say that an anarchist book fair being held at a Hamilton high school over the weekend is linked to a vandalism spree that caused $100,000 in damages on Locke Street Saturday night.

Hamilton police conducted a traffic stop Monday afternoon and found a loaded shot gun, a rifle and a 9-mm pistol. As well as large quantities of cash and marijuana.

The number of homes put up for sale last month was the lowest number of listings for any February in 15 years, according to data released by the Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington.

Hamilton police say an officer stopped a woman going 161 km/h on the Lincoln Alexander Parkway Tuesday morning.

Hamilton police say they are searching for three suspects after a shooting on Barton Street East Monday evening. They've identified one of the suspects.

In 1913, people watched vaudeville at the Playhouse Theatre. In the 1960s, the largely Italian neighbourhood watched a subtitled version of Doctor Zhivago. In the 1970s, before the advent of the VCR, they sat in darkness and watched pornography.

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The city is starting emergency road surfacing work on the eastbound lanes of Main Street West.