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After several middle of the night rescues where police would go out and buy necessities for women, Const. Sara Beck got the force to create care packages that are kept on hand, with shampoo, a brush, some clothes and pyjamas, even a toothbrush and toothpaste.

Hydro One has applied to increase electricity distribution rates, and the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) is holding a public meeting in Ancaster Thursday to ask people what they think.

The owner of the Guelph Royals baseball team, Jim Rooney, has announced the team has ceased operations effectively immediately and will be looking for a new owner.

Sears Canada plans to close dozens of locations and eliminate 2,900 jobs across the country as part of a court-supervised restructuring process.

Does Hamilton still need to encourage people to build downtown anymore? The city is asking itself that question.

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

A woman died in hospital after the e-bike she was riding was struck by an SUV traveling eastbound on Haldibrook Road.

Halton, Ont., police are teaming up with 38 restaurants to better train staff on what do to when they suspect someone is driving under the influence.

The city envisioned a big splash — food trucks, bands, artists — to encourage people to swim at Hamilton's beaches. Now Hamilton's Beach Crawl, deemed too expensive, will be whittled down to a simple promotional campaign.

A Canadian killed while secretly fighting Islamic State militants in Syria is being laid to rest at a funeral Wednesday afternoon in Niagara Falls.

What was once a husk of a burned out building is now housing six new affordable housing units for Indigenous people, the provincial government announced Wednesday.

Officials in Halton Region are warning patients of a dental clinic in Burlington they may have been exposed to improperly cleaned instruments used in procedures.

Many eras of Greensville Grizzlies, as the students were known, came out on Tuesday for an open house to commemorate the school’s 169-year history. Teachers walked the hallways they’d walked for years, perhaps for the last time.

The latest updates on the roads and rails for your morning commute in and out of Hamilton.

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

Newcomers, friends and social workers gathered at the Hamilton Public Library to celebrate and commemorate what brought them to Canada.

Hamilton's transit union has launched a campaign to try to encourage public officials to hire HSR drivers to run the new light rail transit (LRT) system. To do otherwise, it says, would hand over a major transit route to a private company.

Second-hand shops will have to submit weekly lists of new items they've purchased so police can find stolen goods faster. The city says it's necessary to crack down on an industry that feeds addiction and theft.

It was the third rope rescue incident at Albion Falls so far this month.

The owners of a nearly 150-year-old church in Brantford threatened to remove its heritage murals and woodwork last week.

The mother of a Canadian killed while secretly fighting Islamic State militants in Syria says she's relieved she'll finally be able to lay her son to rest months after his death.

The 2017 Towards Safe Harbour Report Card was released Monday by the Bay Area Restoration Council (BARC), the group which keeps tabs on local efforts to "bring back the bay" since it was classified as an environmental mess.

Three Instagram posts went up Monday night on an account said to be that of Ager Hasan, the 24-year-old Hamilton man who is wanted for second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old Melinda Vasilije of Kitchener.

Residents in and around Thunder Bay and Hamilton, Ont., have started to receive packages from the provincial government soliciting people to sign up for the basic income pilot project.

75 stolen vehicles were recovered from Six Nations Territory Thursday by a joint forces team led by Hamilton Police

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.

The latest updates on the roads and rails for your morning commute in and out of Hamilton.

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.

The latest updates on the roads and rails for your morning commute in and out of Hamilton.

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

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.