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NHL champion Brandon Montour will bring the Stanley Cup to Six Nations of the Grand River next week. The community will host a celebration at the Six Nations Sports and Culture Memorial Arena, featuring the former Florida Panthers defenceman and the trophy he helped win in June.

Weather conditions in Hamilton and Burlington are no longer likely to result in thunderstorms, Environment Canada said.A rainfall warning persists.

A new survey commissioned by the Toronto Region Board of Trade shows a majority of respondents have considered moving away from the city due to congestion, while an urban planning expert and a cycling advocate say there needs to be a focus on giving people options outside of cars to move around the city.

Ed Marshall last jumped nearly 80 years ago while training as a paratrooper. On July 12, the 100-year-old leapt from a plane from an altitude of about 3,810 metres over Cayuga, Ont., for a good cause.

An educational assistant with Niagara Catholic District School Board (NCDSB) has been sent on leave after she was arrested Saturday on deeply troubling" charges, the board said.

Hamilton-based steelmaker Stelco Holdings Inc. is set to be acquired by U.S.-based Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. for $3.4 billion Cdn. The company said its headquarters will remain in Hamilton and it will build on its existing 1,000-employee footprint in Canada.

The death of a 49-year-old manwho was restrained, following a medical call, by Hamilton police officersis being investigated by the province's Special Investigations Unit.

Ontario has the worstrecycling rates in Canada for non-alcoholic beverage containers. Billions of cans, plastic bottles and cartons go tolandfills or incinerators yearly. The Ford government was seriously considering adopting a new system to improve things, but abruptly U-turned and scrapped it.

Ontario's primary liquor retailer says it will not be opening some stores during the ongoing strike, walking back its initial plan to reopen select locations with limited hours, starting Friday.

The city'smedical officer of health ended a heat warning issued for Sunday and Monday, after the city experienced heavy rains throughout the day Monday and temperatures began to cool down.

CBC London is inviting you this summer to be inspired by some of the finest southwestern Ontario cities, towns and villages named after their bigger European counterparts.

Living in a park encampment is hard, says Lisa Bartlett. What stings is when park users walk by and yell'really cruel, vicious' comments. 'I tell them 'hey, maybe don't judge because you could be here one day - just like that,'' she said, as council explores new options for how encampments might work in Hamilton.

Laura Schmidt is an accountant for a mining company by day but a few times a year, she works as a rigger for high angle challenges on Canadian reality TV shows. She tells CBC Radio's Morning North about her latest adventure in season 10 of Amazing Race Canada.

An anti-government group that some have called 'white supremacist' purportedly is planning a Canadian tour, prompting Hamilton community groups to call on venues in the city to deny bookings to Diagolon and the mayor to say she's 'appalled' by news of the tour.

The requirements are among several included in a proposed heritage conservation easement" at Philpott Memorial Church and has the support of the congregation as it attempts to sell and move to a more affordable location.

There are now 2.5 million people in Ontario who don't have a family doctor, the Ontario College of Family Physicians said on Thursday. That's an increase of more than 160,000 people since the last count was released six months ago.

Tow truck drivers who cannot get certified under new provincial legislation in Ontario due to having a criminal record say that the impact it has on their livelihoods is significant.

After a particularly wet and rain-drenched week, it's time to enjoy a sunny, summer weekend. Thankfully there are several festivities inthe city that await.

The two sides in the ongoing LCBO workers' strike seem to be at an impasse. Here is some key information and context about what's behind the stalemate, and what's at stake moving forward.

Farm workers are also 35 times more likely than the rest of the population to die of heat exposure, according to letter from advocacy group Justice For Migrant Workers

While Toronto FC suffered another setback Wednesday, substitute Prince Owusu tossed the slumping Major League Soccer side a timely lifeline in their game against Hamilton.

Here's a breakdown of how the LCBO currently turns its $2.5-billion annual profit, and how things are expected to change with the Ford government's reforms.

One of two Hamilton public elementary schools offering Mohawk language classes has suspended the program for this fall as the board conducts a review that will include looking at how it recruits instructors. Now, returning students who were learning the Indigenous language must change schools or switch to studying French in September.

After six years as mayor of Brantford, Kevin Davis announced he's resigning by the end of this month to join Ontario'sLicence Appeal Tribunal (LAT). In a statement on Facebook, Davis says his new appointment is"a once-in-a-career opportunity" that allows him to return to his roots as a lawyer.

Hamilton police have arrested and charged a Brampton resident in connectionto the shooting death of Hamilton man Tito Kelly last year. Police announced theyhave chargedDonte Smith, 36 with manslaughter.Smith remains in custody with a bail hearing scheduled for July 11.

Eugenia (Jenny) Da Silva of Brantford, Ont., left her job at a funeral home in Woodstock last week and went missing for days. Police said late Wednesday the 44-year-old has been found safe, with no foul play concerns, and is now home after a relentless search by family and friends.

Environment Canada has ended the tornado watch it issued earlier on Wednesday for the Niagara Falls andWelland area. By late afternoon, only a rainfall warning remained.

Blue-green algae, recently detected at Hamilton's Pier 4 beach, produces toxins that can cause skin irritation, sore throats, swollen eyes and lips, fever, nausea and vomiting and diarrhea.

The six-week interval between the two legs of the Canadian Championship semifinalbetween Toronto FC and Hamilton's Forge FC is something that Toronto coach John Herdman doesn't mind at all.

Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning forHamilton,Brantford, Burlington and the Niagara region.

Hamilton's poetry hotline project was put together by Monday Press, a group of writers and creatives who approached local poets to contribute their work. Callers are asked to enter a number between one and 99, which will then play a recording of the poem being performed by its author.

In 1999, Paula Schnurr and Patti Moore were part of a group in Toronto that ran to set a Guinness World Record for the fastest time in which 100 women ran a one-mile relay.That record stood for 24 years until an American team beat it by five minutes last year. On Sunday, 100 women in Hamilton won it back, they say.

The union representing Ontario liquor store workers has ramped up pressure in a five-day-old strike, with no talks planned to hammer out a deal.

Environment Canada has issued an updated rainfall warning covering much of southern Ontariodue to the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. It warns of rainfall totals of 40 to 60 mm in Hamilton, starting late Tuesday or Wednesday.

Nine confirmed cases of listeriosis have been reported in Ontario as part of an ongoing investigation linked to recalled plant-based refrigerated beverages, health officials say.

A Brantford man has been charged with murder, police say, in the city's first homicide since 2022.

Advocates had asked for a representative for First Nations, Inuit and Metis people in the city. Six councillors opposed exploring the idea, saying council shouldn't have appointed members.

Hamilton, Burlington and Niagara Region will have lots to cheer about when the Paris Olympics kick off July 26. From high-profile athletes to local stars, the area is well-represented in this year's games.Here are some of the local Olympians headed overseas.

The rapper-turned-singer performs Monday in the Niagara Region, raising funds for the Heather Winterstein Foundation. It's his Canadian debut, and proceeds will support Indigenous youth programming that addresses mental health, addictions and human trafficking.

The Ontario government rolled out an online tool Monday to help consumers find outlets to buy beer, wine, cider and spirits, whilesome 9,000 LCBO workers remain off the job in a strike that shows no signs of ending.

After B.C. won over a struggling Hamilton on Sunday night, the Ticats have now lost five straight to start a season - for the first time since 2017 when they dropped to 0-8.

Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for Hamilton, Burlington and St. Catharines starting Monday and continuing into Tuesday.

One tenant's home of 14 years is listed for sale for close to $600K. If it sells, she says there's a good chance she'll become homeless and worries her neighbours will, too.

Get in the car and travel to some of the finest southwestern Ontario cities, towns and villages named after their bigger European counterparts. There are quite a few, including Vienna, Copenhagen,Brussels and Paris.

A team of McMaster University students in Hamilton is eagerly preparing for an expedition to Iceland, where they'll camp out by a series of underground lava tubes they plan to map with a drone.

Hartman, who was born in Brantford, will be honoured with a large tribute on the city's performing arts centre. The city is now taking artists' design submissions.

A former Grand Erie District School Board teacher is accused of "professional misconduct" involving afemale student in the 1990s and will face an Ontario College of Teachers' disciplinary hearing.

As thousands of striking LCBO workers picketed across Ontario on Friday, local employees marched, waved signs and handed out flyers at a liquor store near Upper James Street and Rymal Road West in Hamilton.

Distilleries can only sell hard alcoholic drinks like vodka, gin and whiskey attheir retail stores, in bulk to a local restaurantor through the LCBO. Butbreweries or wineries sellingcider, wine and beer have theflexibility to also sell their productsat eligible grocery and big-box stores.

The 2022 Rogers outage that left 12 million people without wireless and hard-wired services was caused by human error and made worse by management and system "deficiencies," according to an independent review conducted for Canada's telecommunications regulator.