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A Stoney Creek teacher found guilty of two sexual-related charges was in court Friday to determine his sentence.

A bankruptcy court judge has agreed to a plan that will sever U.S. Steel Canada from its U.S. parent and allowed the company to suspend pension benefit for tens of thousands of retirees.

Police from Hamilton and Halton found two women they believe are human trafficking victims when they raided a Stoney Creek home early Thursday.

On a day when 20,000 U.S. Steel pensioners are at risk of losing their health benefits, local NDP politicians are calling the new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal another hit to Hamilton's steel industry.

A Niagara region cop has been arrested a second time over a cheese smuggling operation, and the Conservatives and the NDP are about to release their party platforms. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 9, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

It’s a damp start to your thanksgiving weekend – expect rain Friday morning with a chance of showers throughout the day.

A judge is expected to issue a decision Friday on a stark plan for U.S. Steel to divest itself of future responsibility for its Canadian subsidiary, U.S. Steel Canada, the former Stelco, Inc.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats' dynamic punt returner remains the CFL's most dangerous special-teams performer with four punt returns for touchdowns. The Ticats host the Roughriders on Friday night.

A Niagara Regional Police officer found guilty last month on charges related to his role in a cross-border cheese-smuggling operation has been arrested for breaking the terms of his bail while he waits for sentencing, police say.

Hamilton fire crews were called to the QEW near Fruitland Road Thursday morning after a transport truck caught fire.

A Hamilton man is facing child pornography charges after a home was searched on Beach Road Thursday morning.

Hamilton police officers are searching for a 75-year-old man missing from a retirement home.

A cyclist in his 50s was rushed to hospital with serious injuries Wednesday night after running a red light in central Hamilton, police say.

A strip mall on Upper James Street has been evacuated because of a natural gas leak, police say.

18-year-old Brendan McFarlane has been found safe in Toronto.

There are 1,181 cases missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada right now. And on Wednesday, their deaths inspired heated debate among would-be MPs for two Hamilton ridings.

Sheila Copps comes back, the Toronto Blue Jays get going and a Conservative candidate in Toronto, a former science teacher, has some controversial comments about oil spills. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

It’s been 15 years since Sheila Copps has campaigned in Hamilton, but walking down a Dundas sidewalk, she still looks like a pro.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 8, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather for October 8, 2015.

Hamilton police are asking the public to help track down missing 18-year-old Brendan McFarlane.

Steelworkers and pensioners protested Wednesday outside the Toronto courthouse where U.S. Steel Canada is arguing it should be allowed to stop paying pension contributions and property taxes.

A 72-year-old man was mugged early Wednesday morning near Wilson Street East and Sanford Avenue North, police say.

It was a room concerned with the politics of division on Tuesday night when Hamilton Muslims packed into a meet-and-greet for local federal election candidates.

Eleven years after duking it out in a tough Liberal nomination battle, Sheila Copps is coming home to help the party campaign in Hamilton.

That bylaw officer handing you a ticket might be a little friendlier. And a Canada Revenue Agency adviser left his job in 2013 then joined an industry lobby group campaigning to curtail the powers of tax investigators. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 7, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather for October 7, 2015.

Paramilitary-style uniforms being replaced by more cheerful blue polo shirts

Suspected drug overdoses sent two more inmates from the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre to hospital on Saturday, the day after one inmate died and another was also sent to hospital, both with apparent drug overdoses.

The Ontario government has fined Carillion Canada $900,000 including half-a-million for not clearing the QEW during a storm last November, and $400,000 for not doing a proper job on the QEW between Burlington and Mississauga in another storm last December.

Sgt. Jason Howard's sentencing will be delayed while the defence and prosecutor iron out discrepancies in the agreed statement of facts underpinning the hearing.

Hamilton police were called to Sir Allan MacNab secondary Tuesday morning after a social media threat over a “potential weapon,” the school board says.

Home prices and sales were up again in September compared to the same month in 2014, according to numbers released Tuesday from the Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington.

Two vehicles hit and killed a buffalo, the animal, Tuesday morning on the QEW near Lyons Creek Road in Niagara Falls, just 25 kilometres from Buffalo, the city.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 6, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather for October 6, 2015.

A new report from the Hamilton Community Foundation touts the city’s “economic renaissance,” but cautions that disparity is a “critical issue,” as many people are not able to reap the benefits of all that newfound optimism.

Hamilton's steelworker union head is seeing red — but is not surprised — by a court monitor report that backs a proposal by U.S. Steel Canada to suspend its benefits to pensioners.

Hamilton police Staff Sgt. Matt Kavanagh, who was the lead investigator for the Tim Bosma murder investigation, has been awarded the Canadian Order of Merit for a police officer.

A police act sentencing hearing Monday for Jason Howard, a 16-year veteran of Hamilton police examines the circumstances of 23 false benefit claims and his reasons for making them.

Coun. Aidan Johnson saw Strathcona in a way he usually doesn't early Monday morning. He rode on the back of a truck as a garbage man.

A Hamilton man is facing charges of committing an indecent act after allegedly exposing himself to a woman on the Rail Trail, and then telling police that he wouldn’t show up in court to answer to the charges.

The CBC's technology columnist Jesse Hirsh talks about a new tool that could help politicians make you like them more and hate their opponents.

Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League for Week 15.

Justice Stephen Glithero has stepped aside because of health issues and a new judge has taken over the trial.

A large part of being a world-class athlete is meticulous preparation. But nothing could have prepared Edmonton's Annamay Pierse and Burlington's Mark Oldershaw for the arrival of their first child — almost three months early.

American comedian Sarah Silverman tweeted her support for the NDP and a look at where Canada's refugees come from. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

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