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Burlington, Ont., native sailor Sarah Douglas came within spitting distance of the Olympic podium three years ago in Tokyo, now she heads into Paris with three years more experience and tactical savvy, and with confidence that she can break through old plateaus.

Jessica McKenzie says earning the title as the inaugural Miss Indigenous Canada is also a win for Opaskwayak Cree Nation.

Canada's Eleanor Harvey captured Canada's first-ever fencingmedal at the Olympics, defeating ItalianAlice Volpiin the bronze-medal match in the women'swomen's foil individual event in Paris.

Marieme Badiane had game-high 13 points and France trounced Canada 75-54 to open its women's basketball tournament at the Paris Olympics on Monday in Lille.

A 25-year-old Hamilton man who accidentally shot his girlfriend in the head while playing with a pistol at a house party has been sentenced to five years behind bars. That's a shorter sentence than was given to the man who brought the loaded gun to the 2020 party.

During extreme heat, power-hungry air conditioners strain the electrical grid. Now, some utilities are paying customers to use less power during peak times. Soon, customers could also generate, use andstore energy within a network known as a virtual power plant, something energy experts say could be a key part of the future net-zero grid.

Canada opened its Olympic men's basketball campaign with an 86-79victory over Greece in Group A play during Day 1at the Paris Games on Saturday.

Sanoa Dempfle-Olin from Tofino, B.C. will be Canada's first Olympic surfer. She'll have to master the waves in Tahiti, which boasts some of the biggest and most unique waves in the world.

Earlier this month Mayor Kevin Davis said he'd step down, with 18 months left in his term, to join theOntario Licence Appeal Tribunal. He was to start his new jobin August. Now he says he won't resign.

NBA stars Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nickeil Alexander-Walker are headed to Paris together with Team Canada. The pair sit down with CBC's Dwight Drummond to discuss how growing up in the GTA helped shape the players they are now, and their epic driveway battles.

Randy Peardon, a father of 3, died from multiple gunshot wounds in June.

Soon after Hamiltonians regained the ability to put books and other items on hold, the Hamilton Public Library has announced users can once again access their online accounts.

Celine Dion returned to the world stage at the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris, in her first public performance since revealing she was diagnosed with stiff person syndrome, to close out the event on Friday.

Men who have been displaced after a fire on Monday at the downtown Hamilton YMCA are wondering when they'll be able to get back into their units.

As Gavin Stephens writes, he only recently realized how anxiety, neurodivergent traits and racial profiling can overlap.

The Meeting House said it was unable to secure parts of the insurance coverage it needs to continue normal operations beyond June 30. The pause comes two years after a former pastor was first charged with sexual assault.

Halton Region Public Health urges residents to seek medical attention if they're bitten or scratched by a bat or other wild animal.

A police investigation into the crash and explosion that killed two people in a high-powered luxury car at a Niagara Falls border crossing last year has concluded with the crash's cause still a mystery.

Alena Sharp finds it hard to believe she first competed at the Canadian women's golf championship two decades ago.

Det.-Sgt. Shane Donovan, who was with the Niagara Regional Police Service, was acquitted this spring of perjury - the last charge linked to the six-year saga with Const. Nathan Parker that involved multiple police agencies, investigations and trials.

After not having a single case of pertussis - known as whopping cough -in the community since 2020, the Brant County Health Unit now says it has confirmed 12 cases in the past two months.

The branch at 79 James St. S. includes the fitness and aquatic centre, a newcomer youth centre and EarlyONchild care drop-in centre.The charity says the fire has had a 'profound impact' on the lives of the residents who were staying there.

The teen and an a 28-year-old man were charged with robbery with a firearm for incidents in October, 2023. Both suspects are from Hamilton.

Environment Canada advised people to stayindoors, and warned the heavy downpour may cause flash floods and water pooling on roads.

Hamilton police say a 42-year-old is dead and three other people are hurt after a car crash on Tuesday night in Waterdown.

In 2023,there were 54 confirmed cases across Ontario.

It was hard not to get emotional" at a cross-border rally for Palestinians in Niagara Falls last weekend, an organizer says. Hundreds of people demonstrated on the Canadian side of the border, with a smaller group on the U.S. side.

Brandon Montour's friends, family and fans - including a 99-year-old longtime supporter - were among parade-goers in Ohsweken, a community within Six Nations of the Grand River, on Wednesday to welcome the NHL hero and the Stanley Cup to his hometown. "I'm very grateful and honoured to be in the position I'm in," says the 30-year-old defenceman.

Local affordable housing providers are applauding the federal government's announcement of $97 million to help build 270 affordable housing units and repair 8,399 units in Hamilton, Halton Region and Niagara Region.

Ontario's Ministry of Labour says it is investigating after a worker who became "trapped under material" died at a steel processing plant in Hamilton.

A recent decision to drop some burdensome new border-related paperwork requirements for Canadians entering the U.S. with their dogs might only be temporary, Canada's health minister says.

Malick Joseph, 29, from Dunnville, Ont., diedin the village of Staromaiorskeon June 10 - the day the Russian military reportedly seized control.

The Survivors' Secretariat hosted a rally on Parliament Hill Monday to protest the federal government's $500,000 annual cap on funding for organizations investigating missing children and unmarked graves associated with residential schools.

As of last week, Hamiltonians can make new holds and access old ones for the first time since the ransomware attack on the City of Hamilton in February. The library asks users to check on holds they made before the attack.

Almost a dozen people were rescued after a fire at the YMCA's transitional housing residence for men Monday, says the Hamilton Fire Department.

One of three sexual assault charges against Bruxy Cavey, former pastor of Ontario megachurch The Meeting House, has been stayed due to court delays, according to his lawyer.

Hamilton police are asking the public for help as it investigates a crash on Sunday that left one womanin critical condition and injured two others.

U.S. officials have released the name of the pilot who died in a skydiving flight after her passengers jumped from the aircraft near the Niagara Falls.

Ontario's main liquor retailer has a bright future, Premier Doug Ford said Monday as thousands of employees returned to work after a two-week strike.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats earned their first win of the season this weekend.

The ratification means the first-ever strike at the LCBO will officially come to an end after midnight on Monday. The LCBOsays it plans to reopen all closed retail stores on Tuesday.

Paris, Ontario is home to most of Canada's cobblestone houses. And they even have a tour.

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario and the union representing 10,000 of its workers reached a tentative agreement Saturday more than two weeks after thestrike began.

A series of haunting faces carved into tree trunks in Welland, Ont., may look like art, but to city officials and police it's straight up vandalism.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 23 points as Canada defeated host France 85-73 Friday in an Olympic men's basketball exhibition game.

A tentative agreement reached between the LCBO and the union representing its workers Friday was put on hold the same day, with talks continuingon their return to work amid the first strike in the corporation's history.

An investigation into the death of a man in Pelham has led to two people from Stoney Creek being charged, Niagara police said.

Hamilton Health Sciences says some non-urgent appointments and procedures may be delayed.

As Canada's trucking industry grows, truckers are raising concerns about unpaid wages. They also say that the federal system that's meant to help them collect what they're owed is overburdened and unresponsive.

In 1976, when Hamilton's Mitchell Akira Kawasaki won his first fight in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Montreal Olympics, he saw this newspaper headline: "Kawasaki lets the good times roll." Now 74, things are still rolling for the seasoned judo master, who still delivers mail part time for Canada Post.