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Police have laid charges after they found a man sitting on the roof of Jackson Square with a bag of cocaine in his lap.

Here's what the first day of school in Hamilton looked like this year.

What happens to Stephen Harper if he loses? And what happens to Stephen Colbert tonight? Plus what one Hamilton man did this Labour Day to encourage people to vote. These are some of the top stories from Hamilton and beyond before you start your day.

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

Here's your weather for September 8, 2015.

Zach Collaros threw four TD strikes to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a 42-12 win over the Toronto Argonauts on a hot, breezy Monday afternoon.

A driver has been charged after his car slammed into a building in central Hamilton overnight.

Hamilton police are looking for a suspect after an HSR employee was stabbed Monday morning near a Jackson Square bus stop.

Expect to see something a little different in Hamilton’s Labour Day parade this year — Craig McNeill marching with Elections Canada swag, trying to encourage people to vote.

From Victoria to Fredericton to Inuvik, local groups have planned marches, protests and candlelight vigils to support the refugees and migrants fleeing war-torn Syria and other conflict-ridden countries.

​It goes back 65 years and spans 44 games but defensive end Ricky Foley believes the Toronto Argonauts-Hamilton Tiger-Cats Labour Day rivalry has never been better.

Here's a list of what's open and closed in Hamilton on Labour Day Monday.

Check out great new tracks from Mieke, Public Animal and No King for Countrymen.

Concerns about fraud for the highly valuable passes have prompted the HSR to more than triple the cost of a replacement pass. Students are reacting.

Billionaire philanthropist Michael DeGroote paid a Vito Rizzuto associate $500,000 while engaged in a legal battle over a failed investment in a Caribbean casino venture, CBC News has learned.

One person is dead and two more were taken to hospital with injuries after a two-vehicle rollover collision on Upper Mount Albion Road and Paramount Drive.

It will be hot and muggy all weekend and the city's medical officer issued a stage 2 heat warning, effective Saturday.

A person was struck west of Oakville by the 9:01 a.m. GO train from Aldershot in Burlington bound for Union Station, according to an update on GO Transit's website.

The Hamilton area's unemployment rate dropped slightly to 5.2 per cent in August, down from 5.3 per cent in July, according to numbers released Friday from Statistics Canada.

Imagine sharing the office coffee pot with not just co-workers, but employees of 50 different businesses.

Transportation Safety Board investigators believe the plane stalled shortly after take-off early Friday.

A Hamilton community speaks out at a meeting about gun violence, the Prime Minister responds to questions about the refugee crisis and six pictures that captured the world's attention. These are some of the top stories from Hamilton and beyond before you start your day.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for Sept. 4, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your weather for September 4, 2015.

Westdale Village and the Young Lions Music Club are putting on the Westfest Festival this Saturday from 12 p.m. until 11 p.m.

Concerns about recent shootings drew more than 120 residents to Bennetto Community Centre as downtown neighbourhoods search for answers to help prevent future incidents.

Number of homes sold in August was 1,300, up 7.2 per cent from the same month in 2014.

Environment Canada has lifted its severe thunderstorm warning for Hamilton.

A Waterdown woman discovered the bodies of mutilated squirrels on her driveway Tuesday morning when she went out to get the paper.

Amid a summer marred by gun violence and three weeks after an 18-year-old man was shot dead, police have not yet made any arrests that would calm the fears of a worried community.

Truckers want to go faster, a pet snake stays home even when its owners move on and in Texas, they sewed a man's hand to his belly to save his fingers. These are some of the top stories from Hamilton and beyond before you start your day.

Here's your weather for September 3, 2015.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

In a landmark case for Ontario's highways, the province's court of appeal has upheld provincial legislation that prevents big rigs from going faster than 105 kilometres per hour.

As students are welcomed to campus at McMaster University this week, there's special focus being paid to consent, sexual violence and healthy relationships.

A snake in the family room prompts anxious text to previous owners. "Would this be your pet?"

Watching the changes to U.S. Steel Canada is a “slow, painful grind,” says Hamilton’s mayor – and the city is essentially powerless to stop it.

A 73-year-old man is facing a host of drunk driving charges and a pedestrian is in hospital with serious injuries after a panicked scene in a parking lot on the Mountain Tuesday night.

The city is looking at renaming the MacNab Transit Terminal after the former head of HSR.

"Boring" Gage Park is now exciting for youth, say Isaac ​Neven, 13, Brett Bailey,15, and Frieda Sinclair, 16. Here's how the three teens navigated city hall bureaucracy to get it done.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your weather for September 2, 2015.

Children are most often assaulted or abducted by someone they know, and that has Hamilton police using a new phrase to teach kids about the dangers they face – “tricky people.”

A downtown Hamilton grocery store has been fined $60,000 after a worker had a "critical hand injury" in a meat grinder.

U.S. Steel is moving production out of plants in Hamilton and Lake Erie against the wishes of the chief restructuring officer and before the court appointed monitor has assessed the idea.

The national oral history project is in Hamilton this week, and you could be part of its Supercrawl exhibit.

Housing in Hamilton is becoming less affordable for potential owners of bungalows and two-storey houses, but condo affordability remains relatively stable, according to new numbers released Monday in a quarterly report from RBC.

The Calgary Stampeders supplanted the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at the top in our weekly breakdown of the balance of power in the Canadian Football League.

High Noon, the latest album from Hamilton favourites Arkells, has gone gold.

Conservative leader Stephen Harper took questions about the pensions for U.S. Steel workers and the recession Tuesday at a campaign stop in Burlington, Ont. while the NDP and Liberals were quick to respond.