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"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.

Local French public and Catholic boards will operate and inhabit a new high school on Hamilton Mountain.

The city is hoping to take advantage of a new bill proposed by the federal government, and shorten the time it will spend studying safer injection sites in Hamilton.

The Ontario NDP leader and Hamilton Centre MPP did a Facebook Live interview with CBC Hamilton on Wednesday.

Representatives from United Steelworkers locals 1005 and 8782 are in Ottawa Tuesday to ask Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be part of negotiating the possible Stelco sale.

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

Natasha Findlay-Clairmont says she's struggled with heating, been hit by a van and supported her family on a little more than $700 a month. She was part of a rally to encourage the city to top up a housing stability benefit, which is supposed to be funded by provincial money.

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.

When you’re buying for your favourite music lover this year, buy local. Here are some great albums released by Hamilton artists this year for the people on your list.

Coun. Matthew Green will be represented at a police disciplinary hearing by Selwyn Pieters, a Toronto lawyer and longtime civil rights activist who has dealt with cases that raise human rights issues and carding.

The provincial police watchdog has cleared a Brantford police officer who walked into a police station in 2014 and said he was criminally responsible for two deaths that had happened years earlier.

A 2006 crash on a clear, sunny day made Michael Chiocchio quadriplegic. The city is half responsible for not repainting the stop line, a court justice found.

A nine-year-old Ontario girl has been found safe following an Amber Alert, and her mother has been arrested.

Niagara regional police say a child is safe and apparently in good health after the car he was in was stolen in St. Catharines.

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.

Though Stelco has officially asked to be sold to U.S. company Bedrock Industries, the union local representing steelworkers looks ready to oppose the steelmaker’s formal sale request in court next week.

This week on CBC’s true crime podcast Someone Knows Something, the team tries to piece together more details on the timeline surrounding Hamilton woman Sheryl Sheppard's disappearance, including her work schedule at the time she vanished.

The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal has been called in to investigate after a car, a boat and a garage were all found burning within walking distance of each other in Hamilton early Saturday.

Environment Canada warns that 15 cm of snow is expected to fall in the city starting Sunday evening and running into Monday morning.

Check out brand new songs from The Holiday Crowd, Ronley Teper and the Lipliners and Austra.

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 Matt Cowen, of The Heather on turkey stuffing.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers is threatening to censure Niagara College if it doesn't address concerns over its Saudi Arabia campuses. But the Welland, Ont., school says it's still committed to what it's doing there.

A deal has been made official that would see Stelco sold to Bedrock Industries.

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

A moment of teenage boredom on Sunday set off a swift and intense sequence of events for a teenage former student at Columbia International School.

The RCMP says a Canada Border Services Agency officer has been charged in a smuggling investigation.

Hearings will continue in January between the city and 25 roads workers who say the city's public comments implying they illegally sold asphalt has damaged their reputations.

It's been a rough year for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. There's the controversy over the sale of Hydro One. A scathing auditor general's report. High hydro rates. Voters are noticing. Ontario politics analyst Robert Fisher says a holiday break might be just what the Premier needs.

Police in Burlington say they're investigating after a number of valuables were stolen from urns in two mausoleums.

Niagara regional police say three officers have been injured in incidents that occurred while they were on duty Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

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.

Hundreds of Hamiltonians have shown up at a handful of gatherings in recent weeks to say they’re not OK with recent incidents of racism in their city.

In a sign that Hamilton's renaissance is continuing, the city has seen more than $1 billion in building permits this year. That's the sixth time in seven years.

Seven people are facing a host of charges after a Hamilton police investigation into recent violent crimes and robberies in the city. Police aren't calling them a gang — though at least one of the accused talks about a known youth gang on his Facebook profile.

Zeinab Noureddine's family is one of 3,100 that will get a Good Shepherd Christmas hamper this year. The agency was one of the first places she went when she came to Canada six years ago.

The average price of a home in Hamilton was 24.6 per cent higher in November than it was in November 2015.