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Ontario's Progressive Conservatives have launched their election platform with a glossy magazine and a smiling Patrick Brown on the cover. Queen's Park analyst Robert Fisher delivers his take on if the policies inside are as slick as the magazine cover.

Police seized $90,000 worth of drugs and arrested three people after searching two homes on Springvalley Crescent on the west Mountain on Wednesday evening.

Hamilton's Amazon bid came in lower than the original target of $500,000, but left the city with a shortfall of about $42,000 beyond what has been raised by private donations and the city’s $250,000 contribution.

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

Police arrested four adults Wednesday and seized drugs, ammunition and firearms.

The company will do a larger survey in the spring, but in the meantime, will start cutting down some of the 9,000 trees it plans to fell.

As International Day of Persons with Disabilities approaches, Sarah Jama takes stock of Hamilton's and Canada's progress providing protection and opportunity. There is much to be done.

An Oakville woman's plan to turn a Queen Street South mansion into a treatment centre for kids with autism was blocked by a city committee Thursday.

Sarah Nurse has been compared to more famous cousins her entire life. But while she's proud of her family and all their accomplishments, Nurse hopes to create her own identity with the Canadian women's hockey team, and making the Olympic squad is the first step towards that.

Halton police are investigating after three teens ended up in hospital after a brawl in an apartment building parking lot in Burlington Thursday night.

Police are investigating after a man was found bleeding from stab wounds to the chest on a central Hamilton sidewalk overnight.

The O-P-P is searching for four men who allegedly forced their way into a home and stole prescription medication.

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A long-awaited city report on supervised injection sites says Hamilton would benefit from a facility where drug users could more safely inject substances like opioids and crystal meth.

After eight months of maintaining his innocence in a massive data breach at Yahoo, Karim Baratov feels like he’s now, his lawyer says, doing the right thing by pleading guilty to charges stemming from his role as a hacker.

After weeks of speculation over whether accused killer Dellen Millard would put himself in the witness box, the Toronto man who has been acting as his own lawyer confirmed in court Wednesday that he won't.

Police say a woman faces an attempted murder charge after intentionally driving her truck into a man’s garage while he was inside.

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

Nearly one-third of Canadians are without dental insurance. Unlike health care, dental is mostly covered by private insurance. And that barrier is causing all sorts of bad teeth.

CBC broke through the secrecy by inviting women to talk about their abortions.

A Canadian man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to charges stemming from a massive breach at Yahoo that authorities say was directed by two Russian intelligence agents and affected at least a half billion user accounts.

Last year's U.S. presidential election led to an increase in anti-immigrant rhetoric, two Hamilton agencies say. Now they've launched a campaign aimed at making Hamilton more welcoming to newcomers.

Hamilton's transit union will continue its fight for a publicly run light rail transit (LRT) system, even after Metrolinx warned that the concept is a bad idea.

For its next phase to attract applicants, the province this week will start holding sessions that allow would-be recipients to apply and ask questions in person. The first one is in Hamilton on Wednesday.

Hamilton police say they’re seeing a surge in the number of counterfeit Canadian and U.S. bills circulating in the city. Here's how you can spot them so you don't get duped.

Another season of CFL football has come to an end, and CBC Sports contributor Malcolm Kelly, who saw all but two games this year, has plenty of thoughts on this past year and what to expect in 2018.

In 2017, according to an annual gauge of the rental market released Tuesday, apartments in Hamilton were more expensive and tougher to find than in 2016.

Dellen Millard called three witnesses Tuesday, including an expert in animal bones, at the Laura Babcock murder trial in Toronto. The accused killer is acting as his own lawyer in Ontario Superior Court.

William Shatner says he would like Toronto condo developer Brad Lamb to make a donation to his charity to settle a dispute over the use of the Montreal-born actor's name and image to promote a condo development in Hamilton.

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

Patrick Brown and his Ontario PCs are making clear that they are in it to win it, offering a platform jam-packed with promises designed to appeal to that crucial swath of voters who aren't bound to a political ideology.

Hamilton's transit authority can operate the city's future light-rail transit (LRT) system, Metrolinx says — but adds that it's not a very good idea.

As overdoses and deaths due to opioid use continue to mount across the city, a Hamilton man has launched an addiction and recovery nonprofit organization specifically for the music industry.

Hamilton police are studying boxes full of ballots, credentials forms and other election-related material as part of an ongoing investigation into a local PC party nomination.

Hamilton police say they tracked down two men who had stolen a city truck Sunday night — because they had stopped to watch the Grey Cup just after doing it.

Devon Freeman has gone missing before, police say, but now his family and friends are worried.

The former Target location in The Centre on Barton will welcome a stage reading of a play about Target Canada's collapse in 2015 on Dec. 3.

A woman in her 60s was dragged to an alleyway and sexually assaulted while she was walking in the middle of the afternoon Sunday near Catharine and Rebecca streets in downtown Hamilton, police said.

The Ontario Association of Food Banks has released its annual Hunger Report, showing nearly half a million people in the province used a local food bank last year. The report cites insufficient social assistance rates and a lack of affordable housing as the main reason.

Dellen Millard skips presenting his opening statement and instead begins his defence at the Laura Babcock murder trial by reading pages and pages of text messages — including some he wrote to co-accused Mark Smich — that focused on his problems sleeping.

A father of two from Hamilton lost his appeal claiming the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board infringed on his freedom of religion by refusing to provide him notice when topics such as same-sex marriage surfaced in classrooms.

A man in his 40s died after a trench collapsed on him while he was digging in the backyard of a Hamilton residence Friday afternoon.

A man from Maryland was charged with causing a disturbance after hurling a lewd statement at a TV reporter outside of Hamilton Police Station.

A look at the weather for Hamilton this Sunday.

Ontario is allowing several bottled water companies to take up to 7.6 million litres of groundwater per day on expired permits, as it gives them time to amend renewal applications in light of new rules.

To help make up lost instruction time, colleges have lengthened semesters and cancelled reading weeks — but some students say its not enough to make up for missed lessons and dramatically compressed exam schedules.

WestJet and Air Canada have both blamed Puerto Rico flight cancellations on hurricane damage at Puerto Rico's San Juan airport. But the airport says there's nothing preventing the airlines from flying in.

The Ontario PCs are laying all their cards on the table, releasing a full campaign platform with more than six months to go until election day, in an effort to take down Premier Kathleen Wynne and end the Ontario Liberal Party's 14-year hold on power.

Check out brand new tunes from Mike Charette, Beverly Sound and Grandson.

Packaged foods show it. But restaurauters tell Andrew Coppolino that it might be shaking up the food industry too much if the sodium content in their dishes was published on the menu.