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Downtown Grimsby was evacuated Thursday evening as a major fire ripped through a building and caused major damage to several businesses and apartments.

The June numbers are the second month of data since the Ontario government announced measures try to help cool the housing market around Toronto and the Greater Golden Horseshoe. And they provided a learning curve for agents, buyers and sellers trying to figure out what the current market will bear.

Emergency room visits for opioid overdoses have climbed to their highest level since the city started tracking those numbers, and are likely at their peak since at least 2003.

A large map at Hamilton’s Canada Day festivities drew a steady line of more that 300 people to place a pin to mark their family’s heritage.

The HSR bus driver who was caught on camera pulling a passenger's hair is alleging that it happened after she was spit on.

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

Hamilton police are looking for a break and enter suspect — and they have a great idea what he looks like, seeing as they have footage of him looking directly into a security camera.

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.

Several homes in a north Hamilton neighbourhood have undergone a wild transformation.

The city of Hamilton is doing a survey to prove out-of-town trucks are using the Red Hill Valley Parkway (RHVP) as a shortcut from one provincial highway to another. But nearly 20 years ago, a group of highway opponents warned decision makers of exactly that — only to be largely ignored.

Police are investigating after a “person in crisis” was Tasered and a police officer was injured on the Mountain Wednesday afternoon.

Two notorious pests are waging an all out aerial assault on the patios and decks of Dundas and Ancaster.

The city is investigating after photos surfaced online yesterday that appear to show an HSR bus driver grabbing a passenger by her hair.

He also approached an ambulance, but paramedics stopped him from driving off, police say. It happened just after 7 a.m.

The city spilled so much treated solids into Hamilton Harbour during May's rainstorms that it broke a regulation it's complied with for more than 11 years. And if Hamilton saw another intense rainstorm, there's a risk of it happening again.

So far, Metrolinx has been looking for one consortium to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the light rail transit system. HSR says it can do two of those, and transit should stay public.

Bird Studies Canada is researching barn swallows in an effort to understand why their population in Ontario has plummeted — down 65 per cent between 1966 and 2009, according to the provincial government.

As summer hits its stride in southern Ontario, the province is preparing to renew its efforts to once again eradicate rabies in the province.

Police are looking for three suspects after a Moksha Yoga Studio in Stoney Creek was burglarized on Canada Day.

We Are Not the Others is one of 50 plays coming to the Hamilton Fringe Festival in July.

Brantford police arrested a 61-year-old man on Monday, charging him with possession and distribution of child pornography.

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.

Hamilton's Muslim community got together to celebrate both Eid and Canada Day at the Riverdale Community Centre Sunday.

A man in his fifties is dead after a boating incident in Lake Ontario Sunday.

Weather forecast for Monday July 3.

Justin Timperio, a medical resident at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center who is originally from St. Catharines, Ont., was among six people wounded Friday in a shooting involving a former employee who entered the facility and opened fire. Police said the gunman, a family physician, killed himself after the shooting that left Dr. Tracy Sin-Yee Tam dead.

Over the course of Canada Day CBC asked people in Hamilton what they hope the future brings to both Canada and Hamilton.

From visiting the tall ships that came into Hamilton's harbour Friday to watching the fireworks at Bayfront Park, people were out in droves to celebrate the country's 150th birthday.

Weather forecast for Sunday July 2.

The city is taking extra measures to make sure visitors of Albion Falls can clearly identify the safest places to view the waterfalls this weekend.

It's Canada Day weekend, and it's time to celebrate in Hamilton.

Check out new music from West Nile, Clairmont the Second and The Bandicoots.

A chance of showers on Canada Day with a high of 25 C.

Here's a look at 7 moments from Hamilton's history that have had a national impact and matter in the history of Canada.

The sale of the Hamilton-based steel company went through to U.S.-based Bedrock Industries on Friday afternoon.

The ships came through the Burlington Canal en route to Hamilton Harbour on Friday afternoon, marking the beginning of a weekend of festivities for Canada's 150th anniversary as a nation.

The city’s labour market outlook is looking much better in 2017, according to Workforce Planning Hamilton.

Are you ready to have the best garden on your block? Here's how: Ask an expert. Be part of our award-winning live chat with expert gardeners. Also listen to the call-in show with Ontario Today's Ed Lawrence. Call in by dialling 1-888-817-8995 on Tuesday, July 4, 2017.

A 71-year-old woman was rushed to hospital Thursday afternoon after being struck by a car on the Mountain.

Test your knowledge of Canada's most weird places, pit stops and pleasures.

Here's what's open and what's closed over the Canada Day weekend in Hamilton.

Legal Aid Ontario has backed away from its threat to suspend immigration and refugee services by 40 per cent. The idea was a cost-savings measure for the organization which says it simply doesn't have the money it needs to help those who need it.

A lost pot-bellied pig is home safe and sound thanks to some helpful neighbours and two police officers.

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.

As Canada marks its 150th birthday, we'd love to hear: Where in Canada have you visited? Share a photo 'postcard' with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Public health officials say tick populations have grown in many areas of southern Ontario and are offering tips to avoid painful bites and Lyme disease.

A plan opponents see as a battle to gentrify and push families out of affordable downtown housing has died. But only for now.