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After a 5-hour standoff that started early Thursday morning a 67-year-old man armed with a pellet gun surrendered to police.

Police say the man, using an alias, sent thousands of text messages and emails to the woman between March 2015 and this month.

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

"We hate to see these disasters occur. And what we quickly transition to is, how can we prepare better in the future?" conservation engineer says.

Potholes are a problem everywhere this year, the city says. But Main Street West is "like driving off road."

Three local schools were placed in hold and secure as Hamilton police executed a warrant at a Stoney Creek residence.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats say Orlondo Steinauer is returning to the team as an assistant head coach.

Though they were warned by the city to evacuate in the wake of severe flooding, some Brantford, Ont. residents remained in their homes this week in an effort to protect everything they had.

Police have charged a Hamilton couple getting disability payments with fraud after they allegedly forged documents to buy a $500,000 house.

Local decision makers say new Liberal legislation that's supposed to help Hamilton's affordable housing crisis isn't going to work here after all.

The mayor of Brantford, Ont., lifted the evacuation order covering homes in flooded areas of the southern Ontario city late Thursday.

Ontario Provincial Police say they have found a T-shirt they believe belongs to the three-year-old boy who was swept from his mother's arms as their van sank in the flooded Grand River near Orangeville, Ont., early Wednesday morning.

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

A veteran police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misconduct charge stemming from an incident of domestic assault when he was off-duty in 2016.

A man was walking around 11:30 p.m. and two people with a knife tried to steal his phone and wallet.

After breaking his pelvis, back and arm in a fall in a Central American jungle, a Hamilton man and his wife say they are now stuck in Costa Rica — because there is no hospital bed for him to come back to in Ontario.

Rainfall and snow melt around the Grand River watershed has caused dramatic and dangerous flooding in townships and cities around Brantford and Waterloo region. Windsor-Essex, Chatham-Kent and London are also flooded.

Niagara police seized a "significant amount" of heroin on Tuesday that was tinted purple and believed to contain fentanyl.

A man was taken to hospital early Wednesday morning after a nine-and-a-half hour standoff with police ended peacefully, investigators say.

Heavy rains and a deep thaw have caused flooding and high water along rivers and streams across southern Ontario, prompting a state of emergency in Brantford, Ont., and a search for a missing child after a van was swept into a river in Orangeville.

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

The province's police watchdog has cleared Hamilton police officers after an incident last month where a teen girl jumped out of a window and was seriously injured.

Hamilton police say they have charged a local Caribbean restaurant owner with several drug offences after a bust in the city late last week.

Much of the history of Hamilton's black community is irrevocably linked to the Underground Railroad and freed slaves — but there's much more to the story than just that, says historian and author Adrienne Shadd.

Hamiltonians spend the most per-person on Kijiji secondhand finds out of 10 cities studied in a report commissioned by the online buy-and-sell company.

Payday loan associations say they're providing a necessary service. Opponents say they make people's lives miserable.

The United States has fired a warning shot in what could become a global trade war over steel and aluminum, threatening to impose a wide range of tariffs and quotas within several months on an undetermined number of countries.

A recent poll conducted by Ekos Research for The Canadian Press suggests fewer than half of all Canadians now identify as members of the middle class -- a steep drop from nearly 70 per cent in 2002.

On Tuesday, the city of Hamilton will look at a bylaw that would limit the number of payday loan outlets to 15 and no more than one per ward.

A woman who was struck by a tow truck two weeks ago has died.

A vehicle hit a light pole in a collision on Barton Street East, near Woodward Avenue, around 11 p.m. Monday night.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Hamilton.

A woman and her dog managed to get out their Ancaster home safely Monday morning after an electrical fire broke out in the second-floor bathroom.

Here's a look at how people in Hamilton spent Family Day.

A barricaded standoff in Burlington between police and a 52-year-old man ended after seven hours when police used tear gas and a taser to assist in his arrest.

The Hamilton Conversation Authority has issued a flood watch, with rainfall and higher temperatures expected this week.

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

Ontario MPP and Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown appealed directly to his grassroots supporters at a campaign event Sunday, saying abandoning his platform could destroy the party.

Thanks to the power of the internet (which can apparently be used for more than just cat videos, memes and trolling) local rock band Arkells will be making a transcontinental flight to Pyeongchang, South Korea on Wednesday.

On Saturday a celebration of life service was held for Hamilton's longest-serving mayor, Bob Morrow, who died Feb. 4.

McMaster medical resident, Siobhan Deshauer has become a popular YouTube vlogger, documenting what it's really like to be a resident.

Check out brand new music from Iskwé, Anjulie and Falcon Jane.

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

All it took was a strategically placed tweet and then a flood of support came to help book Canadian rock band the Arkells a ticket to play for Team Canada in South Korea.

Helen Gillings's case was cold long before the national spotlight shone on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Friday, Hamiltonians gathered to remember her.

Patrick Brown has entered the race for leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, just weeks after resigning from the position due to allegations of sexual misconduct.

A Hamilton man who pleaded guilty to repeatedly sexually assaulting his girlfriend's six-year-old daughter will serve 10 years and 205 days for his crimes.

Patrick Brown, who resigned as leader amid accusations of sexual misconduct, has been expelled from Ontario's Progressive Conservative caucus just days before legislature is set to resume.

Happy Family Day weekend! Here's a list of what's open and closed.

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