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Canada Post has announced it will temporarily suspend the community mailbox program that was loudly contested in Hamilton, but its opponents aren't quite satisfied with the decision.

Canada Post is temporarily suspending its controversial community mailbox program. The Crown corporation says it will work collaboratively with the government of Canada to determine the best path forward.

Police were investigating a noise complaint when a 42-year-old man started yelling at and threatened to kill an officer while he was being arrested.

Fall foliage is an annual spectacle, with leaves changing from summer green to the oranges, yellows, browns and reds of fall. But the change to red is a hard one to explain.

For the first time in over four decades, the Tiger-Cats will have sold out every game played in Hamilton in one season.

Retired steelworkers and the city of Hamilton filed an appeal to open the deal struck in 2011

Are you capturing the beauty of the season on your phone or camera? Send us your favourite autumn-themed photo for a chance to win a CBC Hamilton travel mug.

The CMHC expects rising prices to make attached housing, rather than detached homes, more attractive to buyers in Hamilton through 2017.

A 41-year-old man has been killed after he was struck by a large transport truck near Barton Street and Nash Road around midnight Monday.

Netflix decides the Force is strong in Canada. And meet the Hamilton woman who helped set up a women's studies program at the university in Kabul, Afghanistan where she was once banned from teaching. These are a couple of the top stories worth your time this morning.

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

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

At the university where Marufa Shinwari was once forced by the Taliban to stop teaching because she's a woman, there's now a gender and women's studies Master's degree program - that she helped set up.

A young man whose phone and jewellery were taken gets his dad, and the two go after the suspected thieves.

Ten collisions occurred on the Red Hill Valley Parkway Saturday during heavy rains and regular users of the highway had a lot to say about driving- and drivers- on the local highway.

Check out great new tracks from Memoryhouse, Lori Yates and West Nile.

Santa Claus came early to St. George, Ont., this year. The small town rallied this week to bring Christmas to Evan Leversage, a seven-year-old boy who has been battling brain cancer since he was two.

You won't believe how fast you can fall out of shape! What you don’t know about eating peanut butter will shock you! Here's what won't shock you: silly clickbait headlines may soon be generated by automated software. CBC's technology columnist Jesse Hirsh explains.

A whole lot more electors cast their ballots this election nationally and in the city, and it seems many of those new votes were Liberal.

Jonathon Jennings threw three touchdown passes in the first half and Andrew Harris ran in two more late as the B.C. Lions defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 40-13 on Friday night.

Scott Duvall is handing in his resignation papers as a Hamilton councillor Friday, CBC News has learned. Now, local attention turns to his vacant seat in the council chambers and who is going to fill it.

Anti-carding activists left wondering how the controversial tactic will be stopped, what safeguards will be adopted and what consequences there will be for police services that continue to stop and document people without a clear connection to a crime.

East-enders look out for each other, Michael Kydd says – and that’s why he plans to donate a portion of the proceeds from his now-famous Justin Trudeau “just watch me” note to Nathan Cirillo’s family.

The Art Gallery of Hamilton's World Film Festival began last week and will be running until Oct. 25, showcasing 35 films from around the globe.

A Hamilton man is facing robbery charges after trying to rob a senior in the parking lot of Eastgate Square mall on Thursday afternoon, police say.

The Ontario Liberals say they plan to outlaw arbitrary police carding by the end of the year.

The camerawoman who was caught tripping and kicking refugees? She's suing one of them. And Facebook too. This is one of a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 23, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather forecast for October 23, 2015.

Fans at Ian Thornley's record release won't be able to hide how they feel about his new album – because they'll be strapped to electrodes monitoring their every reaction.

Young quarterbacks Jonathon Jennings and Jeff Mathews have both been unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight in their first CFL campaigns.

Hamilton's police oversight board Thursday required a "clear policing purpose" for street checks in a new motion passed unanimously that nonetheless leaves much confusion about the practice.

A 12-year-old cyclist ended up in hospital and a car smashed into a home after a collision near Tim Hortons Field Wednesday evening.

An activist and law student responds to Hamilton Police Chief Glenn De Caire's position on carding and street checks.

Retired steelworkers and the city are hoping the Court of Appeal process can do what the bankruptcy protection court could not: Open the "secret deal" between the Canadian government and U.S. Steel in 2011.

Hamilton police are searching for a man suspected in two knifepoint robberies from the past week.

Remembering Nathan Cirillo one year later. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

The six people who rushed to Cpl. Nathan Cirillo's side as he lay dying at the National War Memorial remain connected by the shocking events of that day one year later.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 22, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.

Here's your Hamilton weather forecast for October 22, 2015.

A public ceremony attended by hundreds of soldiers, dignitaries and citizens at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa commemorates the first anniversary of the shootings at the memorial and inside Parliament Hill, and the deaths of two soldiers on home soil.

With a ceremonial beam of light streaming into the dusk sky, the family of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo stood with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Hamilton Wednesday to remember a son, brother and father who was shot and killed in Ottawa one year ago.

The violence Michael Zehaf Bibeau visited upon an unsuspecting Ottawa one year ago not only killed Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, but irrevocably altered the way Martin Magnan looks at his own life and the people around him.

Though it has been operating in the city for months, city council passed a motion Wednesday asking Uber to suspend operations in Hamilton while the city examines changes to taxi regulations.

Hamilton Police Chief Glenn De Caire's submission to the province on carding warns that limiting or ending it will hurt police ability to solve crimes.

The McMaster student whose viral act of compassion on a Hamilton bus touched the hearts of thousands received a $2,000 reward for the act Wednesday.

A Hamilton-based company is recalling a brand of peanut sauce because it may permit the growth of the bacteria that causes botulism.

In St. George, Ont., the lights are up, the main street is full of decorations and carolers are making their way door to door. It’s Christmas in October - all for a little boy who is terminally ill.

The RCMP had 3 warnings about terror-related attacks before the Parliament Hill shootings that killed Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. And, in Hamilton, the city names a leash-free dog park after the reservist. These are a few of the top stories worth your time this morning.

Your Hamilton traffic notes for October 21, 2015. Check here for traffic and commute updates.