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Heavily armed Hamilton police officers spent hours Tuesday morning outside a home on Cathcart Street with guns drawn – but when they stormed the home, no one was there.

A 21-year-old man is facing stunt driving charges after police caught him speeding at 172 km/h on the Lincoln Alexander Parkway.

A foreign steel maker that has previously purchased a Sault Ste. Marie steel plant is interested in U.S. Steel’s Canadian operations, according to a report in the Hamilton Spectator.

Saturated fats should still be eaten in moderation. But when compared to other evils, a new study shows, they’re not quite as bad as we might have thought.

This woman got cake, a party hat, a marching band and a whole lot of embarrassment for being a store's 10,000th shoplifter. Thank You, Internet!

Have you heard about the drug hundreds of times more powerful than heroin? And the Internet is about to get much faster. Fast enough to download an HD movie in about a minute. These are just a few of the top stories worth your time this Wednesday morning.

It's another fine day Hamilton. Here's your weather. Now get your day started.

Not much traffic yet on local roads and rails Wednesday morning. Check here for traffic, commute updates.

A needed food bank in Hamilton's east end should also have a kitchen, and facilities for teaching cooking and healthy eating classes, says Coun. Chad Collins.

Spurred by bylaw complaints about the growing monthly celebration of homegrown culture, city officials have been meeting with members of the arts community to figure out just what to do about Art Crawl.

On the surface, it looks like just another bureaucratic planning decision at Hamilton's city hall. But Aidan Johnson says it's much more than that – it's a new era at city hall in fighting what he calls bad student housing.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats great Angelo Mosca will be only the second player in team history to have his number retired. It will happen at a ceremony at Tim Hortons field later this month.

As part of an ongoing effort to gather street level pollution data, some parents are even volunteering to attach air quality monitors to their baby’s strollers and head out for a walk.

The defending East Division champion Hamilton Tiger-Cats claw their way into the top spot in our weekly breakdown of the Canadian Football League.

CMHC analyst Abdul Kargbo said increased interest in condos and townhouses comes at a time when the resale market is tight and the number of affordable homes is lower.

Police officers executed a search warrant to enter a multi-unit building in Beasley after reports a man was assaulted with a pistol there on Monday.

A 70-year-old Dundas man who'd been missing since early afternoon Saturday was found safe and rescued from a ravine on Monday evening.

This is the closest you will likely ever get to flying a WWII P-51D Mustang fighter bomber. Put your cursor on the video, hold it down and move around the cockpit. It's amazing. Check out what the pilot does at 4:25.

Roads and rails are starting to get complicated on your Tuesday morning. Check here for traffic, commute updates.

More rain could come Tuesday after a wet start to the week. Good morning Hamilton.

Gas stations. Fast food drive-thrus. Single-family homes. These are all things city planners don’t want to see along Hamilton’s future LRT line, but currently, there's no way to stop it.

It caused a lot of debate, and five people voted against it, but Hamilton city councillors have voted to change how they get paid.

International Village business owners worried that light-rail transit (LRT) will block off vehicle traffic forever don’t need to panic – yet.

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is advertising 21 schools with some empty classrooms in hopes of finding possible tenants or community groups that want to share their space.

Hamilton Police are looking for three suspects following a daytime shooting Saturday afternoon.

Who's got no thumbs and isn't the smartest dog in the world? Diesel the English Bulldog.

An Indonesian court has thrown out a $125-million civil lawsuit against the Jakarta International School where now-jailed educator Neil Bantleman and Ferdinant Tjiong worked.

From the return of the Mike Duffy trial to a police shooting during a protest to mark the anniversary of the death of teenager Michael brown in Ferguson, Missouri to stories about a pair of very different solar projects, here are the top stories in Hamilton and beyond.

The OPP have cleared a collision on the Burlington Skyway. Check here for traffic, commute updates.

Turn off the sprinklers. There's a good chance Mother Nature will make sure your lawn gets watered.

Hamilton Police are looking for three suspects following a daytime shooting Saturday afternoon.

It's up to quarterback Drew Willy and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to try and do something that's never been done at Tim Hortons Field.

Centuries-old papers and books often have no protection from the heat and humidity of southwest India. A Hamilton-based librarian who witnessed their condition wants to do something about it.

Samsung Renewable Energy Inc. has pulled the plug on its proposal to build a 60,000-solar-panel farm in Flamborough after the project failed to get Hamilton city council approval last month.

Getting tests for cervical, colon and breast cancer can be uncomfortable for anyone, and it can get even more complicated when patients feel their doctors may not understand their gender or sexual identities.

A 35-year-old Hamilton man died after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a transport truck on the QEW near Fifty Road, police say.

The city is nearly one year into its pilot project to have food allergy injectors in local malls — but so far, no one has needed it.

Five things to do on a sunny August weekend.

The Canadian Mental Health Association is warning Hamilton residents of a scam where someone is posing as a volunteer looking for donations.

Hamilton police is looking for the public’s help to track down missing teen Rosealee MacNamara. The 16-year-old was reported missing on July 10 when she ran away from home, police say.

Traffic on the Linc was clogged Friday afternoon after a transport truck rollover on the westbound ramp of the Linc heading to the 403.

Both the east and west legs of the Sherman Access and the Sherman Cut will be closed this weekend to complete maintenance and ditch work.

For the first time this year, a mosquito caught in a city trap has tested positive for West Nile virus.

Dundas Coun. Arlene Vanderbeek says filming in Dundas isn’t dead and never was. But the film industry says it is getting a new message from the city today than it had previously.

A new date was set in court Friday in the criminal case related to the dump truck collision on the Burlington Skyway bridge a year ago.

​The outcome of an appeal filed by a Canadian convicted of child-abuse offences in Indonesia is expected in the coming weeks.

Four men face drug charges after Hamilton police say they pulled over a car with its headlights off swerving on the road Thursday night.

GO Transit commuters faced long delays and some cancellations this morning after a computer failure at CN caused signal problems across GO's rail network.

Here's a photo from the Desjardins Canal, and an unforgettable video of a dog rescue.

Canada's party leaders debated on Thursday night too, and CBC Hamilton looks at what's involved in driving for Uber versus a taxi service.