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Ontario is putting $1.8 million toward 15 pilot projects aimed at improving police responses to sexual violence, including two case review models that are similar to a celebrated approach pioneered in Philadelphia.

CBC radio host and writer Stuart McLean remembered on social media.

Stuart McLean, the host of CBC Radio's The Vinyl Café and an award-winning humorist, has died at age 68 after a battle with melanoma.

A man police say was caught on video walking away from a crash has turned himself in

City councillors decided Wednesday not to ask Metrolinx to add a $2.6 million stop at Bay Street downtown in the upcoming Hamilton light-rail transit (LRT) project.

After Tuesday's flurry of moves as the CFL's free agency period opened, Hamilton and Montreal concentrated on the defensive side of the ball Wednesday with each signing a defensive back.

Roughly a dozen marijuana advocates gathered in front of Hamilton City Hall Wednesday, decrying pressure placed on dispensaries by police and the city in recent months.

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Ken Drake owns a retirement home in Florida. He can't get to it anymore, as he has been barred from the U.S. over a 47-year-old conviction for stealing floral prints.

Is it realistic to expect that no one admitted to hospital with suicidal thoughts will be able to kill themselves while they’re there? One expert in suicide prevention from Johns Hopkins University says it is.

Hamilton police say a man left the scene of a crash Monday after the U-Haul truck he was driving plowed into the cars in front of him.

From now on, Phil Farugia will be known as “Harmonica Phil” — a proud reminder of the night he got to share the stage with both Arkells and Frank Turner, all in the same night.

First Nations representatives are gathered on the front lawn of Hamilton City Hall for a Valentine's Day sacred fire ceremony to pray for the souls of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

Hamiltonians can donate their formalwear to ensure students can afford to attend proms, graduations, and major milestone events.

A builder from Grimsby has been fined $20,000 after a partially built storage barn collapsed due to winds and a lack of bracing and proper anchoring.

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A plan for a "rainbow crosswalk" at the intersection of King William Street and Ferguson Avenue meant to be a symbol of inclusiveness with the LGBTQ community has been pushed back for more consultation with that very community.

One of the first things you see in the city when heading to and from the Hamilton GO Centre is about to get a major overhaul.

Students at Westdale Secondary School joined hands in a show of solidarity against Islamophobia and in favour of inclusivity for all.

A new report heading to the city’s library board this week is proposing gender-neutral bathrooms for Hamilton’s libraries, in the name of equal access rights transgender people.

Black History Month is a good time to talk to your kids about racism. What should you say? Samantha Kemp-Jackson, a journalist who writes about parenting, has some advice.

There’s a majestic, secret garden thriving in an east Hamilton attic — cobbled together from $200 worth of wood and flowers scrounged from Dollarama.

Jodi Formosi visited every pawn and cash-for-gold place in Hamilton in search of her stolen family jewelry. What she discovered is how few of them cared.

A delivery driver ended up chasing after his own car on Friday night after two people jumped in and took off, police say.

The suspect, a white male in his 40s, is still at large after the Saturday night robbery.

Sheryl Sheppard, a missing Hamilton woman who vanished almost two decades ago, allegedly told a friend, following her boyfriend's proposal which she accepted, that she was going to tell him 'no' after all. These and other revelations come to light in episode 12.

Police in St. Catharines have laid charges in a homicide case after investigating the death of a woman on Friday.

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The Ontario government has approved a grant to create a rainbow crosswalk at King William and Ferguson. Council is set to consider the project on Monday.

For the second year, a group of citizens are putting on a local light show called DeLight. On the third weekend in February they will build a simulated waterfall made of plastic bottles filled with LED lights.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes traded linebackers on Sunday morning, with Hamilton acquiring Nicholas Shortill and Montreal getting Frederic Plesius.

Environment Canada has issued a freezing rain warning with the temperature hovering around 0.

Check out tunes from Stars, Arkells and Terra Lightfoot.

In the wake of $100K worth of blueberries being stolen, here are five of the strangest thefts Hamilton has seen in recent years.

An offer has been accepted to for a local not-for-profit to buy Hamilton’s historic Westdale Theatre.

A Hamilton woman was forced onto her on her balcony last night as a fire burned through her east end apartment building.

Thick gloves. Sometimes two pairs of thick gloves. Long underwear. And lots of layers. That's how local bicyclists get by in winter, and think everyone else should get into winter biking too.

Bruce Springsteen. Shania Twain. The Who. U2. These are the kinds of acts that have played FirstOntario Centre through the years. Tonight, Hamilton’s Arkells will add themselves to that esteemed company.

Sahab Jamshidi, the Hamilton man who pleaded guilty in January in the drowning death of a 4-year-old boy in St. Lucia in 2015, is having his sentencing delayed again. Jamishidi will have to wait until Feb. 23 to hear if he will spend life in prison for the crime.

A Niagara Falls man has been handed a 15-month jail term after admitting to causing a fire through a drug-producing operation.

The crash blocked the right lane of the 403.

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A lawyer for a convicted killer who is also accused of murdering a Toronto woman says the murder charge in that case should be stayed because it's been nearly three years since the charge was laid.

Facing a contentious clash between two of its seven members and a controversial letter released to city councillors, Hamilton's police services board is calling on the Ontario Civilian Police Commission to investigate.

Terry Whitehead held his own press conference about Hamilton's rapid transit plan. But it didn't go according to plan.

In a world reeling under U.S. President Donald Trump’s border policies, Black History Month is needed now more than ever, say members of Hamilton’s Black History Committee.