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Fearing the police is a real problem caused by systemic issues, Rodney Diverlus says. He explains why Black Lives Matter needed to protest at the Toronto Pride Parade.

Hamilton detectives are investigating after a Subway restaurant was held up at gunpoint.

A 36-year-old Hamilton man was arrested in Toronto for allegedly selling non-existent concert and other event tickets online for the past year. Police say at least 75 people have fallen victim to the scam, and they are looking for others.

Halton Police are asking the public to keep an eye out for a 20-year-old Burlington man, wanted on a number of charges.

The city has found its first rabid bat of 2016, marking 121 rabid animals found in the area this year. Nearly all human cases of rabies in Canada over the past several years have been a result of bites from rabid bats, the city says.

Here's a look at some of the things to do in Hamilton today.

O-P-P say a bad parking job led officers to a marijuana patch in a farmer's field in Haldimand County, south of Hamilton.

Here's a look at the weather in Hamilton for July 15, 2016.

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

A Canadian teacher convicted in Indonesia on child abuse charges marked the second anniversary of his detention on Thursday as his family called for an impartial review of his case.

Local entrepreneur Paven Bratch is restoring the building, and hopes to have its 32 new condominiums on the market early next year.

Diane Hines is fighting to keep her pet pig Sheldon despite neighbour complaints. She says pet pigs are cleaner than dogs and simply misunderstood.

The Hamilton Police service is one of the most racially diverse in Canada compared to the diversity of the city’s population as a whole, new numbers obtained by CBC News show. But do those numbers tell the whole story?

Amer Saka of London, a Chaldean priest, is charged with theft over $5,000. The diocese has previously said it worries the money was gambled.

Police are searching for a man who they say hit a woman with his car in early July, leaving her injured in a downtown parking lot.

Olivia Fasullo ponders what it would take to run hell - and what it would be like to work there - in her new play in the 13th Hamilton Fringe Festival. The festival runs July 14 to 24.

Here's a look at some of the things to do in Hamilton today.

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

Here's a look at the weather in Hamilton for July 14, 2016.

Social media can be a cruel place. But in #dirtygirl, written by 23-year-old Michael Kras of Hamilton, it becomes an actual monster.

The intensive ground search ended Monday. Now police are desperately hoping someone calls with a good tip.

Members of several student groups like McMaster Womanists are planning an anti-police brutality protest at Victoria Park on Saturday evening.

Two people have been arrested in connection with a stabbing that sent a man to hospital Sunday afternoon, police announced Wednesday.

Juno-winning Hamilton band Arkells gave Jill Zitars a concert she'll never forget when they surprised her with a backyard show last week.

Investigators hope someone recognizes the men and contacts them.

There will be charging stations at Concession Street, Highway 6 and Centre Mall.

It's unclear how the Concession Street apartment fire began on Wednesday morning, firefighters say. But by the time the hotspots were out, the damage to the building was estimated to be around $100,000.

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

Here's a look at the weather in Hamilton for July 13, 2016.

Eleanor McMahon, MPP of Tourism, Culture and Sport, announced a total of $152,900 in Ontario Trillium Foundation grants for Mission Services Hamilton and Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts on James Street North. Both run youth programs focused on pursuing careers, post-secondary education, and essential skills.

A more than six-hectare fire burning inside the Wainfleet Bog is now under control, officials have announced.

Incensed Hamilton steelworkers are calling for a public inquiry into U.S. Steel Canada’s bankruptcy protection process.

Brantford police found a wanted man resting his eyes in a backyard treehouse on Friday.

After an earlier announcement appeared to dampen the hopes of many in the Hamilton area LGBTQ community, the national assembly of Anglicans has voted to endorse blessing of same sex marriage.

A Hamilton man is facing stunt driving charges after police pulled him over going a staggering 196 km/h on the QEW near the Burlington Skyway early Monday.

Disgraced Hamilton Police officer Robert Hansen is resigning from the service after he was sentenced last month to five years in prison.

Louizandre Dauphin, a former Hamilton high school English teacher, was reported in New Brunswick as a "suspicious black man." He was parked by the water reading a book by C.S. Lewis.

Provincial police say they're looking for the driver of a U-Haul truck after a man and woman were robbed in Brantford.

Here's a look at some of the things to do in Hamilton today.

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

Here's a look at the weather in Hamilton for July 12, 2016.

Temperatures are expected to reach around 32 C on Tuesday, with nighttime lows only reaching a range of 19 to 21 C on Tuesday and Wednesday. Some rain may provide relief.

The once overwhelmingly popular Nintendo property Pokémon has resurfaced, and Hamiltonians are playing in droves, before the game is even officially released in Canada.

"The bottom line is don't be afraid of a little dirt," says McMaster researcher Malcolm Sears.

A man was sent to hospital Sunday afternoon after being stabbed while inside an east end home by a man he knew, police say.

Helen Robertson has been missing from her Burlington home since last Tuesday.

After two years, the infamous and gruelling climb up Valley Inn Road in Hamilton's Around the Bay race is now open to pedestrians.

Southern Ontario is reaping the benefits of a worldwide vinyl resurgence, with a massive new record production plant set to open next month in Burlington, Ont.

The federal government has imposed a quarantine zone around a St. Catharines, Ont., farm where a strain of bird flu was discovered.