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A Toronto animal activist will head to court next summer after she was charged for giving water to pigs headed to slaughter on a hot day in June.

A 45-year-old woman is facing charges for allegedly stealing from seniors.

GO Transit riders can expect to pay around 5 per cent more in the new year, a Metrolinx report suggests.

The injured man walked into police headquarters early Tuesday morning and asked for help.

The first of Canada's new refugees are arriving, the bill for the Trudeau kid's nannies is footed by taxpayers and local condo conversions are still coming despite a critically low vacancy rate. These are a few of our top stories worth your time this morning.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for Dec. 1, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather forecast for Dec. 1, 2015.

Hamilton's Planning Committee will consider an application Tuesday to convert 29 bachelor and one-bedroom apartments to condos.

City staff are recommending hiring three full-time employees to deal with illegal dumping.

Lloyd Ferguson says Metrolinx needs to hurry up on Hamilton's LRT project or it risks being a year late - or worse.

Police are looking for answers after a 911 outage hit police, fire and paramedics. No major incidents were reported as missed during the outage.

Can you have too much of a good thing? The city says transit that was too efficient led to lacklustre numbers at Pan Am cultural events.

A man was punched and a dog was kicked during fight over money, police say.

A 62-year-old man has died after he was hit by a car exiting a parking lot.

New statistics about downtown occupancy and employment suggest the city should keep up its incentives in the core, planners note.

A former school teacher from Burlington is facing several child sex charges after an investigation by the Halton Regional Police.

Hamilton police are searching for multiple suspects after five men robbed a 15-year-old girl downtown on Saturday night.

An animal-rights activist charged with mischief after she gave some water, in Burlington, to pigs that were headed to a southern Ontario slaughterhouse will appear in a Milton, Ont. court today to set trial dates.

Hamilton police moved quickly to take down a naked man wielding a knife in the lower city last night, one witness says.

A B.C. man discovered TD bank can access and collect information on all of its customers' online activities, even those that aren't banking-related. This is one of our top stories today.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for Nov. 30, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather forecast for November 30, 2015.

A "Pollution Crawl" on Sunday highlighted Hamilton's industrial lands and what that means for the air, water and nature.

On a Sunday night in September, Jennifer Lee and Wade Turner got in the car to go to the hospital to have their baby. Then Jennifer said, "You're going to have to call 911."

Hamilton Fire and Hamilton Police both had outages in their 911 systems overnight Sunday.

CP Rail's holiday train is decorated and pulling into Hamilton on Monday, bringing music and a festive spirit.

Late Saturday night, two men entered the Petro-Canada store on Queenston Road with a gun and ran off with cigarettes and money.

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The city wants to take parcels of tender fruitland out of the greenbelt to open the area for development. Environmentalists are gearing up to fight the idea.

Kojo Damptey expresses disappointment at the reappointment of Chief Glenn DeCaire comments about it from police board chair Lloyd Ferguson, while wondering what it means for marginalized communities.

The festive fun really ramps up in Hamilton this weekend as the holidays approach.

November has been gloriously warm, some days – and Environment Canada says a mild December is coming this way, too.

Most simple pot possession charges in Hamilton get dropped — but police still keep personal information about those smokers for over two decades.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for Nov. 27, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather forecast for November 27, 2015.

More than 300 Syrian refugee families could settle in Hamilton. But Canada's top bureaucrat for refugee resettlement says the government won't leave the city on its own to help them.

Ottawa Redblacks quarterback Henry Burris was named the CFL's most outstanding player on Thursday in Winnipeg, site of this Sunday's 103rd Grey Cup between the Edmonton Eskimos and Redblacks.

A three-month investigation has led to child pornography charges for a 49-year-old man, who has been removed as a coach in a Burlington minor hockey league.

Neil Bantleman, the Canadian teacher who was jailed on sex assault charges in Indonesia before being released on appeal, had hoped to be back with family by Christmas — but his brother says that's unlikely.

When Lloyd Ferguson pushed Joey Coleman, the city only saved 15 seconds of surveillance video. The city needs a policy for how it saves video, the city manager says, as well as for other safety concerns.

There was evidence of cocaine trafficking and a marijuana grow op, police say.

A family is reeling after their four-year-old son’s custom wheelchair was destroyed when their vehicle was stolen in Brantford, Ont., and ultimately torched.

In the holiday shopping wars Cyber Monday may have its retail rival, Black Friday, on the ropes. Mandeep Malik, Assistant Professor of Marketing at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business, explains why Cyber Monday's time has come.

Burlington Fire had 32 firefighters, multiple trucks and aerial ladders on scene at the height of the fire.

Police say the car clipped another vehicle before forcing a third vehicle off the road.

Fire officials are still working to figure out what started a fire in the attic of a central Hamilton home.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for Nov. 26, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather forecast for November 26, 2015.

LRT construction is still four years away but already, its spectre looms ever larger in the city's decision making, particularly when it comes to traffic.

What's it like to sponsor a family of 14 Syrian refugees? A Dundas group - one of many local efforts - is finding out.