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A Canadian team has won a global design prize by developing an early prototype of a cheap, handheld heat scanner that could one day help doctors diagnose skin cancer quickly and painlessly in their offices.

Hamilton city council will cast an emergency vote Wednesday to hire 58 more bus drivers after news that some current drivers are working 68-hour weeks.

A girl, a 17-year-old student, was hit by a car early Wednesday morning, police say, outside Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School in Hamilton.

In a text message to his girlfriend, Dellen Millard compared Laura Babcock, the Toronto woman he is accused of killing in 2012, to "herpes" that he was going to get "rid of."

As the use of medicinal cannabis grows, a new Ontario research centre says it plans to look into whether pot is actually an effective treatment for various ailments.

A provincial park near St. Catharines will be closed for six days this fall to honour treaty rights of local first nations communities.

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

Ontario's next provincial election is in seven months, but Kathleen Wynne's Liberals will have to mount a significant comeback to overcome Patrick Brown's Progressive Conservatives.

Bursts of pollution from ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s steelmaking plant have left neighbours with questions about the air they’re breathing. They plan to push for accountability at a meeting open to the public this Thursday.

The Ontario Liberals have pledged to add 5,000 more long-term care beds over four years, but one critic says that's not enough to fix the province's chronic shortage.

A retired OPP officer, described by the judge at the Laura Babcock murder as "undoubtedly the most substantial witness of the trial," began testifying on Tuesday afternoon in Ontario Superior Court in Toronto.

A woman in her 30s was killed Monday evening after a shooting at a Hamilton home. Police have made an arrest in the case.

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

You would expect the Wynne Liberals would shout from the rooftops when they make a change that gets the public sector to deliver more of our publicly funded health care.

St. Peter's Hospital has relocated 96 patients after a fire broke out in an unoccupied south wing storage facility Sunday.

Ontario's colleges have called for striking faculty to vote on a final contract offer, after talks to end the four-week labour disruption broke down today.

Hamilton is looking at how it builds splash pads in an effort to trim a few thousand dollars every time it builds one — an effort one councillor says will save millions of dollars.

Here's a list of the multiple ceremonies and events commemorating veterans in Hamilton this week.

All charges against a St. Catharines vet have been dropped. Doctor Mahavir Rekhi had been facing 16 criminal counts of animal cruelty. faces 16 criminal charges of animal cruelty

A Hamilton family found a sewing needle, police say, inside a mini Coffee Crisp chocolate bar given to their child over Halloween.

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

Every aspect of Laura Babcock's life has been scrutinized in a downtown Toronto courtroom, at the ongoing trial into her alleged murder in July 2012.

Residential properties in Hamilton continue to fall in price compared to the peak reached in April. The local realtors association says buyers have a little more time to shop around.

The charity that was on thousands of men's lips just a few years ago now has a much lower profile but is still trying to advance men's health research.

The rain didn't stop the Road2Hope marathon runners Sunday morning.

St. Peter's Hospital patients have to relocate as result of smoke from fire Sunday morning.

A new survey of almost 2,000 health-care workers found staggering rates of violence experienced by front-line staff.

A man was seen assaulting his dog and was charged with causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.

Sunday in Hamilton brings lots of rain, mostly in the afternoon and into the evening, according to a special weather statement issued by Environment Canada.

A vision to change the way public health units are managed in Ontario is not sitting well with municipalities across the province, and Waterloo regional councillors have sent their concerns to the Ministry of Health.

Check out brand new music from Megan Landry, Iskwe and Majid Jordan.

The Canadian Down Syndrome Society has launched a new campaign, entitled "Anything But Sorry: The 'S' Word" to change the perceptions of Canadians about the birth of a baby with Down syndrome.

Two Indigenous communities in Ontario and Alberta will be working with a research team in McMaster in a water quality project over the next three years.

Sophie Geffros recalls waiting on a freezing January night, in a wheelchair, for more than an hour for a bus. Environment Hamilton says the HSR is "approaching and crisis" and wants to hear from riders like Geffros.

The ongoing trial into the presumed murder of Toronto's Laura Babcock has heard from a number of her close friends. Many told the jury how they offered her a sympathetic ear or place to stay. These are some of their stories.

Part of the Red Hill Valley Parkway will be closed for four hours Sunday for the Road2Hope marathon.

Stelco Holdings Inc. shares gained almost 13 per cent on its first day of trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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

The Sudbury bribery trial is over. The judge went beyond saying Pat Sorbara and Gerry Lougheed were not guilty. He said there was no merit to the charges at all and acquitted them. Despite that ruling the trial continues to plague the Liberals. Queen's Park analyst Robert Fisher explains how.

The Sudbury bribery trial may be done in the court but it's not over for the Liberals. Polling shows voters rank it up there alongside the gas plant scandal and the current college teachers' strike.

The next closest LCBO-run stand-alone shops will be Kitchener and Mississauga.

A man in his 50s was sent to hospital by air ambulance after being trapped on a Flamborough farm Friday morning.

Detectives who seized evidence during the search for Laura Babcock, who disappeared in July 2012, testified Friday at the Toronto murder trial of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich.

No matter how hard Steve Smith has tried, he hasn't been able to kill Red Green. The Hamilton-based comedian figured he was ready to hang up the character's suspenders and duct tape for the last time.

Hamilton police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying suspects who took a banking machine from a Hamilton restaurant.

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

It's the most significant reform to policing in a generation, according to the Wynne government, and it's being greeted largely with cheers from groups pushing for more police accountability but with alarm by the unions representing officers.

Can you smell that? It’s a hazy new age of marijuana acceptance, wafting over Canada — but sadly, two of this country’s trailblazing pot pioneers aren't around to experience it.

Hamilton police have arrested and charged a 38-year-old Hamilton man for a string of robberies at commercial stores across the city last month.

The city is asking HSR bus drivers to work up to 68 hours a week due to what it says are absenteeism issues — and now, the union that represents bus drivers is calling for Hamilton's transit director to be fired.