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You don't have to go all corporate just because you've waited 'til now to get your gifts together.

Slippery streets are causing issues across the city, with limited salt, and tricky conditions for pedestrians, cyclists, mail carriers and more.

Delft Blue Veal Inc. had a spontaneous fire burst out on December 17 at 4:45 a.m., as a result of a storage facility housing organic materials. The second spontaneous combustion occurred yesterday afternoon, around 4 p.m. in the exact same structure.

After years of a complicated legal struggle over banned sledding, the city has four designated hills and they are about to officially open.

It's the shortest day of the year and the first day of winter. So laugh, give and celebrate the last week before Christmas with our Things To Do list.

Your up-to-date traffic on the first day of winter.

Today will have a high of -1 C. Tonight, it will snow.

It's already the lowest increase for Hamilton police budget in 18 years. But on Thursday, Hamilton trimmed one of its few embellishments — $44,000 for someone to do social media.

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

Forsyth Avenue is still closed near McMaster University this morning after a water main broke and flooded the area, and the underground parking of the McMaster Children’s Hospital.

More charges have been laid against a Hamilton doctor who's accused of sexually assaulting two female patients.

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 Hamilton Fire Department is reminding citizen all the steps to having a safe and happy holiday season this winter.

Tony Divers’ siblings are grieving and confused after their 36-year-old brother was shot and killed by police close to midnight one Friday night in September.

A water main break has flooded King Street and Forsyth Avenue near McMaster University and the Children's Hospital.

Hamilton police are investigating a string of 4 fires set last weekend, Dec. 10.

The trial of four Hamilton police officers reconvened briefly Monday to finish off the questioning of Const. Shawn Smith, the only officer of the four on the police mounted unit.

Canadian entertainer and former CBC broadcaster Gordie Tapp, once described as the "world’s finest storyteller," died Sunday at 94.

The Special Investigations Unit is digging into a police chase that left a man and woman with minor injuries after a vehicle fleeing Hamilton police crashed into another vehicle along Rymal Road, Saturday afternoon.

Police are investigating a shooting Sunday night near Westmount Secondary School. One victim was taken to Hamilton General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Temperatures continue to plummet today as Hamilton's acting medical officer of health issued an extreme cold weather alert on Sunday. As of 7 a.m. Monday, the temperature was - 17 C, but felt more like - 23 C with the wind chill.

Fire crews pulled the final body trapped inside the charred remains of a family home in Port Colborne, Ont., where a house fire Wednesday killed four people. The operation to recover the remains entered its fourth day due to perilously icy conditions.

This week on CBC Radio's true crime podcast, Someone Knows Something, the team unravels another piece of the mystery by introducing listeners to Sheila Darbyson, who was romantically involved with Michael Lavoie shortly after Sheryl Sheppard disappeared.

Police arrested three men believed to be "cooking crack cocaine inside [their] vehicle as they drove around and sold it from the car" overnight Sunday. Police discovered the operation when they pulled the vehicle over at Ferguson Street and Simcoe Street for a traffic violation.

It may be mild out now, but prepare for a flash freeze as temperatures fall to minus double-digits Sunday night. Hamilton city officials have issued a cold alert, with temperatures expected to drop to - 13 C tonight.

Fifty years after its TV premiere, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas remains a feel-good holiday television classic.

Check out some brand new music from Terra Lightfoot, Adrian Underhil and Stuck on Planet Earth.

In this latest in a series of December columns, food blogger Chanry Thach goes in search of Hamilton chefs's best holiday recipes. This week its Carolyn Vaughan of 541 Eatery and Exchange.

Fire crews have recovered a second body from a burned-out house in Port Colborne, Ont., where a house fire Wednesday killed two adults and two children.

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

"I just don't support carding, period," says Terry Whitehead, the only board member to vote against it.

A cat that was thrown from a moving vehicle on Highway 406 has found a home.

The latest updates on the roads and rails for your morning commute in and out of Hamilton.

We'll get another dump of snow overnight, then rain and more unsettled conditions over the rest of the weekend. Here's the details.

Even though it’s not final, the step taken forward Thursday leaves uncertainty for union representatives of more than 13,000 pensioners and about 1,500 active workers at the company’s plants in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ont.

The Hamilton city councillor says it was racial profiling. The police union says the officer was making sure he was OK.

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

"If the service is about providing value to private interest, how do we make sure it's Hamiltonians' interests that are at the top of the agenda?"

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Hamilton expecting "brief heavy snow" starting this afternoon. The federal weather agency also issued a winter travel advisory Thursday, warning that bands of snow coming inland from Lake Huron "may produce whiteout conditions making travel hazardous."

Crews searching for the bodies of a woman and her two children following a fire Wednesday at a home in Port Colborne, Ont. have found one of the victims in the charred structure.

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 city of Hamilton and Local 1005 steelworkers and retirees are opposing Stelco's request to be sold to Bedrock Industries, set to be heard in court at 10 a.m. Thursday.

The difference in the deal on the table today is the proposed buyer Bedrock Industries won't be required to make up the pension fund shortfall

By its own admission, the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) suffered years of mismanagement and financial confusion. Now a growing chorus of voices — including Hamilton — want the province to take a closer look.

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

An 83-year-old grandmother died and a mother and her two children are unaccounted for, but believed to be dead, after a fire ripped through their family home in Port Colborne, Ont.

Patients who deteriorate in hospital have gradual changes in heart rate, blood pressure and other vital signs that can signal a crisis. One Hamilton hospital is using a computer program to flag these changes so that medical staff can intervene to save the patient before it’s too late.

It's not technically winter yet, but Hamilton will be under a cold alert Wednesday.