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A lower city Hamilton councillor stepped outside the city's usual procurement rules to spend thousands to hire an urban planning consulting firm. But that councillor says he had no idea he was doing so.

Hamilton city officials say they expect to reopen the flooded Waterfront Trail next week after nearly a four-month closure.

Hamilton police say a teen reported missing is believed to have left Tuesday for Mexico with her uncle.

As the Hamilton housing market’s fever continues to break, “reduced price” and “new price” listings are popping up from realtors around Hamilton.

A Hamilton city councillor will propose Thursday looking at reducing the speed limit on the Lincoln Alexander and Red Hill Valley Parkways to 80 km/h in the hopes it makes the highways safer.

New York state officials say the latest discharge near Niagara Falls is believed to be a rain-related sewer overflow and unrelated to a release last month that turned the water below the world-famous attraction black and smelly.

Three Hamilton men are facing a string of charges after a home invasion in Norfolk County on Monday morning.

Police are investigating a rollover that closed the Linc overnight.

A Brantford man was rushed to hospital with critical injuries Tuesday morning, after his motorcycle collided with a BMW in Lynden.

A Burlington church sustained heavy damages after a fire broke out overnight.

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The struggle to shut down these zoos using the power of the courts is still very much ongoing. But this case succeeded in keeping years-old investigations into Marineland's treatment of animals in the news.

Hamilton police say they are searching for a missing 16-year-old girl who is part of an ongoing custody dispute.

Valery (Chedoke Browlands) Development Inc. cut 106 trees without the city's permission. On Tuesday, they asked for retroactive approval. Councillors weren't interested.

Construction is just about finished on a massive, spiralling, go-kart racetrack that looks like a bit like a roller coaster in Niagara Falls, Ont.

More than double the number of passengers flew into and out of Hamilton’s airport in the first six months of this year, compared to the first half of 2016, according to data released by the airport Monday.

Activists in Niagara Falls are camping this week in the Thundering Waters Forest to protest a controversial planned housing, retail and entertainment development, backed partly by Chinese investors, on 484 acres near Marineland.

Winnipeg has won three straight, and risen to No. 3 in our rankings, but the Blue Bombers must prove they're capable of more than just bullying the weak East as undefeated Edmonton rolls into town.

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Soccer fans awaiting a pro team in Hamilton will have to wait a while longer. The city decided Monday not to talk pro soccer with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats as long as there are lawsuits flying around Tim Hortons Field stadium.

Competitors at this week's Canadian Open Blind Golf Championship in Hamilton are taking to the greens on their own merits, with a little coaching help.

A Hamilton city councillor wants to ban outside groups from doing security duties on city property in an effort to ward off a deadly incident like the one in Charlottesville.

Hamilton police say someone heard a single gunshot near King William and Emerald streets on Monday morning around 10 a.m.

Parental leave for councillors. More meetings closed to the public. Participating in meetings via Skype. Here are five changes about to happen.

The city of Hamilton launches a group of five parking enforcement officers riding bikes for their enforcement duties, tasked with a special focus on ticketing anyone obstructing the bike lanes.

Marineland Canada says it's mourning the passing of a "beloved" beluga whale at its facility in Niagara Falls, Ont.

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Emergency crews were called to Hess Village overnight after a man fell off the rooftop of the Gown and Gavel.

Two industry veterans are launching a brand new local film school called the Hamilton Film Centre, in the hopes of fostering a love for the screen in a new generation.

Projected construction costs for a mere parking lot at a Hamilton seniors housing complex have ballooned from $350,000 to $1.1 million, in what one city councillor calls a "disastrous" case of mismanagement and miscommunication.

Winnipeg kicker Justin Medlock hit six field goals to lead the Blue Bombers to a 39-12 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday night.

The SIU decision released Thursday marks “a huge psychological load that’s been taken off his shoulders,” said Clint Twolan, Hamilton Police Association president.

Karim Baratov, the 22-year-old charged in connection with an American probe into a Yahoo hacking operation, will not stand for a scheduled extradition hearing this fall, his lawyer told CBC News on Friday.

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

Florida-based bridal retailer Alfred Angelo shuttered its 60 U.S. stores and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in July, leaving brides-to-be around the world without the gowns they had already ordered, including many in Ontario.

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The Niagara County legislature asks for investigations by the New York state attorney general, the Niagara County district attorney and the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

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The provincial body that investigates police shootings has cleared a Hamilton officer of criminal wrongdoing in last September's fatal shooting of Anthony Divers, a 36-year-old Hamilton man.

Ontario's police watchdog says it won't lay charges against a Niagara regional police officer involved in the arrest of a teenager who suffered a concussion.

A Hamilton family found a 1.5-metre alligator in their yard on Tuesday. An animal control officers says it was likely an escaped pet.

Police say the man was at a workplace gathering in the park when he was observed outside the marked swimming area.

Members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, on Thursday, blocked a street in Caledonia with a hydro tower, flags and shipping pallets.

A statement from Marineland says it "suffered five years of baseless accusations by ill-informed, radical activists" as a result of charges laid by the OSPCA that ended up being withdrawn by the Crown.

A woman was killed and a man injured after an accident where the woman failed to yield right of way to another car traveling southbound.

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Last week Caledonia witnessed blizzard-like conditions when an insect called the fish fly insect created large swarms during the course of its annual breeding period.

More than living 80 cats, including kittens just born, have been rescued from the abandoned cat colony in Beamsville that was discovered last month.

Art therapist Sharon Trottier leads drop-in sessions for staffers to colour in mandalas to cope with the hospital's high-stress environment

Monday's heavy rainfall had two different groups of people stranded at Hamilton's Albion Falls and Chedoke Falls. The flow rate going through Red Hill at Barton Street was 1 cubic metres per second. After the rain, it climbed to 30 within a two-hour period.