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Contrary to popular thought, maintaining a low-sodium diet may not be beneficial to one's health. According to a recently published study, cutting down your daily salt intake could actually be harmful to your body.

Erin Wasserman, sports injury epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina, explains why she says we need a guideline about when kids should return to school after a concussion.

Volunteers planted a garden to grow veggies and herbs behind 541 Barton Eatery and Exchange this week.

Accused killer Mark Smich spent the entire week at the Tim Bosma trial in Hamilton being cross-examined by the lawyer representing Dellen Millard, his co-accused.

Police pin the arrests to 3 recent robberies, and continue to investigate.

What you need to know to make the most of the long weekend.

Are you ready to have the best garden on your block? Here's how: ask an expert. Be part of our award-winning live chat with expert gardeners. Also listen to the call-in show with Ontario Today's Ed Lawrence. Call in by dialling 1-888-817-8995 on Tuesday, May 24, 2016.

Here's a list of great things to do in Hamilton this weekend.

The city says it knows where they are, and is watching out for them. But Hamilton's official heritage committee wants to make sure.

Dellen Millard's lawyer says that his client and co-accused Mark Smich got into a heated argument over Tim Bosma's death at Millard's airplane hangar after the shooting.

The boy had gone inside the house, but without his dad knowing, came back outside and started following the lawn mower.

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 May 20, 2016.

The driver was speeding around 4 a.m. on Thursday, police say.

Police say a man was waving a large butcher knife around J. C. Beemer Park.

Dellen Millard's lawyer alleges that Mark Smich shot Tim Bosma after a struggle broke out inside the Hamilton man's truck on an Ontario highway.

Ontario's minister of municipal affairs and housing says amending municipal elections bill would create "level playing field" for all candidates.

A Burlington company has been fined 50-thousand dollars for a workplace incident that left a worker critically injured by a ruptured water hose.

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 May 19, 2016.

As rabies cases rise in Hamilton, a free vaccine clinic in Hamilton aimed to help low-income owners protect their pets.

One of the 'deficiencies' with the stadium where the Ticats play is an unpredictable lighting system that neighbours say is left on in broad daylight and all night, even when there's no event taking place.

Mayor Fred Eisenberger will move a motion next month to put buses freed up by LRT on the Mountain and suburbs. All Mountain councillors have expressed reservations about LRT.

A Hamilton woman trying to get home from an Alaskan cruise said she was assaulted at the ticket counter by an Air Canada worker.

The story Mark Smich told about how Tim Bosma died that gripped a Hamilton courtroom last week "doesn't make any sense," say lawyers for Smich's co-accused, Dellen Millard.

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 May 18, 2016.

A couple from Hamilton is downsizing their dream wedding in Ottawa after a devastating fire. Now, they're looking to find someone else to take their spot so they can get back some of the $5,000 they have tied up in deposits.

What happens if we don't accept the $1 billion? Will we get more for regular buses? Why doesn't the route go down Main Street? Here are answers to 10 questions people are asking about LRT.

Five years ago, the city cut the ribbon on a new MacNab transit terminal worth $9.5 million. With LRT, the upgrades may not survive.

Police have charged a 25-year-old with attempted murder after a stabbing at a downtown apartment building on Friday.

An east-end Hamilton teen didn't come home after leaving for school on Monday morning, and her family and police are asking for public help to find her.

Accused killer Mark Smich wrote rap lyrics about killing people and running from the police, the jury heard Tuesday at the trial of two men accused of killing Hamilton man Tim Bosma.

Police say a Niagara man has been charged with impaired driving while operating his his lawn mower.

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 May 17, 2016.

The Sunday afternoon incident last May 17 kicked off a season of increased concern about violence in Hamilton.

City councillors were going to cast a crucial vote this week to accept $1 billion from the province for LRT- or not. But the city councillor behind it says he's taking a gentler approach.

Police are asking anyone who shot cell-phone video to bring it to them for review.

A Hamilton landmark that has housed CH Television since 1953 is up for sale.

Hamilton Police have laid a dangerous weapons charge against a 29-year-old man who had a Samurai sword outside of a 7-Eleven on Main Street East.

An altercation at a home on the Mountain in Hamilton sent a 32-year-old woman to hospital.

Mark Smich must have buried the gun he believes was used to kill Tim Bosma in "some magical forest," Dellen Millard's lawyer suggested in court Monday — because the accused killer can't remember anything about where he left it.

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 May 16, 2016.

A small memorial constructed of flowers and condolences is growing on the south side of King William Street in front of Club Seventy-Seven.

Andrea Horwath says the city should stop creating uncertainty and not lose out on a unique opportunity.

When Hamilton firefighters arrive first to a medical emergency that involves an acute allergic reaction, they should be able to administer a life-saving shot of epinephrine, says Hamilton Public Health Services.

Hamilton Fire Department not reporting where the fire began or what may have caused it.

At the trial of the two men accused of his murder, the jury heard for the first time last week a version from one of the co-accused of what happened to Tim Bosma.