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The Ontario government is moving to double the maximum tax rebate offered to first-time homebuyers, while boosting the land-transfer tax on house purchases above $2 million.

Improper sewer connections are dumping condoms, tampons and human feces into creeks across Hamilton. But city councillors are balking at the idea of spending nearly $1 million every year to fix the problem.

A 19-year-old woman is facing charges in a weekend crash south of Brantford that sent four people to hospital.

Everybody in hockey seems to have a Pat Quinn story, and that includes the men who will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame tonight alongside the beloved, late former player, coach and executive.

A Hamilton man has been charged after police say, early Saturday morning, a male drove a vehicle into a crowd of people standing in the parking lot of a Niagara Falls strip club.

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The Special Investigations Unit has been called in after a teenager crashed her e-bike in the Brantford area while being pursued by the O-P-P.

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Four Hamilton police officers accused of falsifying tickets are expected to appear in Ontario Court of Justice in Hamilton on Monday to begin trial.

The Edmonton Eskimos have advanced to the CFL East Division final. Sean Whyte's nine-yard field goal with seven seconds remaining gave Edmonton a 24-21 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East Division semifinal.

A tree trimmer was rescued Sunday afternoon after a limb from the tree he was trimming snapped and broke his femur.

Hamilton's Sunday Remembrance Day events featured a garrison parade and ceremony, including a message from a Muslim leader expressing thanks for military service.

Hamilton Fire Department responded around 2:30 a.m. Sunday to a three-storey apartment building that was on fire.

An Osgoode Hall law professor is calling for an Ontario judge to be disciplined after the judge reportedly wore a hat showing support for Donald Trump while in a Hamilton courtroom.

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In a Q&A with CBC, political analyst Robert Fisher discusses how Donald Trump's presidency could affect Ontario's economy, and whether a Trump-like saga could play out in Ontario politics.

On this annual day of remembrance, Canada's war veterans were honoured in a ceremony at Gore Park.

The CFL playoffs have arrived, with six teams left in the battle for the Grey Cup. As division winners Calgary and Ottawa enjoy a bye this week, here's a look at Sunday's Edmonton-Hamilton and Winnipeg-B.C. matchups.

As a new study highlights the pervasiveness of the Hamilton region's opioid problem, Mayor Fred Eisenberger says the city needs a safer injection site.

The case of a woman who gave water to pigs outside a slaughterhouse will drag on for a few more months.

A 37-year-old Hamilton man was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for stabbing his sexually abusive and violent father to death to protect his family. He has the possibility of applying for parole after 12 years.

New benches installed at Gore Park have an armrest two-thirds of the way along that serve to deter sleeping; advocates wonder if this a deliberate measure against the homeless.

Hamilton man Hal Roberts is lucky enough to be in a movie generating early Oscar buzz — it’s just a shame he couldn’t get in to see it himself.

The last day of testimony in the trial of animal rights activist Anita Krajnc, who's charged with giving water to pigs en route to a slaughterhouse, examined the consequences of a growing meat industry — part of Krajnc's effort to show she was acting in the public interest.

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

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There have been more opioid-related deaths in the Hamilton LHIN over a five-year period than anywhere else in the province, according to a new study out of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.

Hundreds of Indigenous people from the North were shipped here after the Second World War, sick with tuberculosis, for treatment.

Robert Badgerow has taken the stand in his own defence at his first-degree murder trial in Kitchener, revealing details of his sexual history and his claims of a nameless encounter with victim Diane Werendowicz.

A new study out of McMaster University’s Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute gives a greater understanding of the root causes of autism, researchers say.

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Hamilton emergency crews were called to yet another rope rescue Tuesday night, as calls to the city’s waterfalls continue to mount.

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

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A woman is in hospital after an overdose inside a Tim Hortons bathroom at Jackson Square Tuesday afternoon.

The jury in the Robert Badgerow trial heard two hours of unedited audio of 911 calls made to Hamilton police on June 22, 1981. Badgerow is on trial for an unprecedented fourth time in connection with the death of Diane Werendowicz.

Hamilton police are trying to track down a man who they say tried to burn the same truck three times over a six-month period in the city’s east end.

Justin Masotti's family needs to find an Ontario doctor to approve his experimental cancer treatment, which has been the only thing that has helped his exceptionally rare form of brain cancer.

Premier Kathleen Wynne said she wants to allow photo radar in school and community safety zones. Merulla said the Red Hill and Linc parkways should be allowed to use the tool.

A class action lawsuit is being organized by a couple from Burlington, Ont. regarding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones, which were recalled last month following reports of overheating batteries that pose a fire hazard.

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

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.

Emergency crews were called to yet another fall at a Hamilton waterfall Monday afternoon, and one man was rushed to hospital.

Do the three agencies that oversee police do so with enough accountability and transparency?

The second week of defence witnesses in the Robert Badgerow trial includes a forensic pathologist and two people who testified the voice on a key 911 call was not Badgerow.

Health Canada says that the seizure of liquid fentanyl found in Hamilton that was announced last week is not the first in Canada, despite what Hamilton police investigators say.

Brantford Police says Colborne Street West at Gilkinson is closed while the police investigation continues.

The pounding of drums and chanting reverberated off downtown Hamilton’s buildings Monday morning, as hundreds took to the streets in solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux Nation's fight against the construction of a contentious oil pipeline in North Dakota.