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Hamilton police are mounting a "PR smokescreen" by claiming internal statistics — not its own officially recorded ones — are the best measure of how well it handles sexual assault complaints, says a legal expert who has studied sexual assault issues.

An Ontario woman wants the City of Montreal to hand over $1,000 after her car was damaged in a shootout between police and an armed man Dec. 31. So far, she hasn't been successful.

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

Doug Conley pushed his fellow councillors to ask for an Ontario Civilian Police Commission investigation into what's going on at the police services board. Council is the only local body that can do that. But most said they didn't have enough facts.

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.

Vaccines, nefarious cash-for-gold places, ward boundaries and other issues are on tap at Hamilton city hall Wednesday. Follow live, starting at 5 p.m.

Hamilton police are looking for $100,000 worth of blueberries and other fruits they say were stolen in Stoney Creek on Sunday.

Thousands of Hamilton students from the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board descended upon the arena Wednesday for their annual school day game, as the Bulldogs Squared off against Owen Sound Attack.

Hamilton police are investigating what led to a crash on Highway 403 near Highway 52 Tuesday evening.

Wednesday marked the end of evidence in a trial begun in November over charges of falsifying tickets.

Hamilton police are searching for a suspect after a bridal store on the Mountain was robbed at knifepoint Tuesday night.

Hamilton police say the official statistics that show it considers almost one in three sexual assault reports as unfounded are wrong.

New census data released today shows population growth in the Hamilton area has dipped slightly in recent years.

The mother of a Canadian man killed fighting Islamic State militants in northern Syria is questioning why her son's body still hasn't been recovered when the remains of a British fighter who died on the same day were on the way to the United Kingdom.

A Burlington-based company that services industrial cranes has been fined $125,000 after a worker suffered a fatal electrical shock on the job.

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.

Male-dominated industries are disappearing, leaving a pool of men with largely non-transferable skills unemployed. And the next generation of boys are not getting the education they need to prepare for a changing job market.

With his new book, researcher Martin Gibala says he has removed the all time greatest excuse to blow off exercising: I don’t have time.

Matthew Green has warned before that the city's rental housing subcommittee was likely a waste of his time. But Tuesday, he stepped down for another reason.

A University of Toronto study has found elevated levels of certain airborne pollutants in diesel train cars — particularly the ones being pulled right behind a locomotive.

The city has been looking for ways to regulate the rogue businesses, which aren't legal - yet.

A bevy of Hamilton acts have been nominated for the 2017 Juno Awards.

Winds are expected to gust up to 80 km/h Tuesday evening. Here's how to stop from garbage from ending up in your neighbour's lawn.

Walt Juchniewicz, a city appointee, told the city manager that the board lacked transparency.

Hamilton police have charged a man with multiple accounts of sexual assault and say they believe there are more victims out there.

Health officials are warning cat owners after a cat was found with rabies in rural Glanbrook. They're looking for anyone who came into contact with the cat.

In the witness box for the first time on Tuesday, a third Hamilton police officer echoed testimony from his fellow defendants and other officers who’ve testified in the trial.

Hamilton police have released the image of a man, they say, is a suspect in the theft of metal nozzles attached to fire hoses in two central Hamilton apartment buildings.

A 17-year-old girl has been charged with aggravated assault after Hamilton police say they investigated a stabbing downtown Monday afternoon.

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.

The Ontario Provincial Police say two people are dead after a crash the Skyway Bridge in Hamilton.

The westbound QEW was closed for several hours Monday afternoon after a crash near Guelph Line sent a woman to hospital with critical injuries.

Halton police will review a host of recent cases in light of new statistics that show almost one in every three recent sex assault claims in the area are dismissed as baseless — yet Hamilton police have not committed to any such review.

Home prices in central Hamilton have more than doubled in the past decade, rising 130 per cent between 2006 and 2016.

A Hamilton doctor who was already facing several sexual assault charges has been charged with five more counts of sexual assault.

Sheryl Sheppard, a missing Hamilton woman who vanished almost two decades ago, left behind an audio tape for her sister, with instructions to give it to the police if anything ever happened to her.

Hamilton fire crews responded to a car fire around 8:15 p.m. Sunday and rescued a woman from 30 metres down.

Two suspects have been charged after police say a dog was dragged by a car for nearly a kilometre in Welland.

An apartment building on East Avenue South where 45 people live was evacuated Sunday evening after some of them complained of an odour in the building and others weren't feeling well.

Environment Canada releases freezing rain warning overnight and into Tuesday.

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.

Evidence is starting to pile up that Sheryl Sheppard knew that her life was in danger, the CBC’s true crime podcast Someone Knows Something has found.

Check out new music from Common Deer, B.A. Johnston and Chris Gostling and the Tempo.

Crews are still battling a four-alarm fire at a metal recycling plant in Brantford that's been burning since early Friday afternoon.

Nine people were taken to hospital with various degrees of smoke inhalation after a multi-alarm fire at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre Friday night.

The wife of an elderly Waterdown, Ont. man who was violently assaulted while sleeping in his nursing home bed last weekend says she "feels sickened by what he has to endure at the end of his life."