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Now that spring has sprung and Spencer Creek's water flow is bursting through the mass of ice once again, we here at CBC Hamilton did what anyone in our position would do — send a drone over the sheer 22-metre drop of Webster's Falls to capture it in all its glory.

The will of city councillors to examine Hamilton’s ward boundaries will be tested next week when they vote on an ambitious schedule that would see boundaries redrawn by next summer. But not everyone likes the idea.

A Hamilton woman has been charged after she allegedly spit at a police officer following a dispute at a Pizza Pizza restaurant Tuesday night.

Slide the City tours across North America with the stuff of childhood dreams: a 300-metre slide that’s unfurled in a city street that revellers can pay to rocket down on an inner tube. Event organizer Mark Gowland wants to bring that party to Hamilton this summer.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Wednesday, March 25.

Those who were concerned that Mayor Fred Eisenberger didn’t go to a meeting with the premier on Tuesday needn’t worry. It’s going to be a regular event.

Despite worries that the city is veering into doing the province’s job, Hamilton Public Health will hire two new staff this year to deal specifically with improving Hamilton’s air quality.

With key decisions coming on the controversial gas plant proposal and the potential purchase of U.S. Steel lands, who the city appoints to the board has become a critical political move.

The city will spend nearly $2 million over the next two years to hire 31 new paramedics to ease stress levels and improve response times — which officials say is necessary even though provincial benchmarks show Hamilton is doing well.

Hamilton police are on the lookout for a man who disguised himself as a construction worker Tuesday morning to rob a bank on Fennell Avenue East.

A Hamilton woman with a previous animal cruelty conviction is facing four new charges after officials found three neglected cats at a local home – including one that needed its leg amputated.

A Hamilton activist thought he’d finally be heading to Ottawa this month for a hearing after CSIS agents visited his home in 2013 – but it has been postponed because those same agents “aren’t available.”

The Meadowlands Target in Hamilton will be closing on April 1, along side 22 other locations that same day.

Hamilton artists excited and relieved as city councillors voted for the first major boost in arts funding in 15 years.

McMaster University’s student union voted Monday in support of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that aims to put economic and political pressure on Israel.

Hamiltonians can expect a slippery morning commute as freezing rain is expected to fall early Wednesday morning.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Tuesday, March 24.

No one told Mother Nature this was the second day of spring. But as far as ice boating goes, Burlington's Brad Reynolds says, "this is about as good a weather as we get." And he was out on Hamilton Harbour to make the most of it.

Provincial statistics show Hamilton ambulance crews are getting to patients quicker than ambulances in many other municipalities. Nonetheless, the service is asking council for an extra $1.2 million to deal with an "unsustainable" workload.

The airline industry is tough, and growing passenger traffic is hard. But at least one local politician says he’s still looking for the managers of the Hamilton airport to make good on their promise of a million passenger flights a year.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats re-signed veteran receiver Bakari Grant on Monday.

A Hamilton man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for his latest string of fraud convictions of concert and sporting event online ticket scams, offences he committed while on probation for more than 50 prior charges.

Mayor Fred Eisenberger says he has a very important reason why he can’t make it to a Queen’s Park meeting with the premier on Tuesday – he has to be in Hamilton for a Horizon Utilities meeting.

Tickets go on sale today for the Parapan Am Games, which will bring more than 1,600 athletes from 28 countries to Ontario this summer.

A Hamilton senior who was pulled over for speeding over the weekend apparently didn’t get the message, police say, because he was pulled over again just minutes later.

Construction crews are back at work Monday on a two-year project on Centennial Parkway that will reduce traffic to one lane.

Place your bets, Hamilton – will Burlington Street be voted one of the worst roads in Ontario again this year? The north-end thoroughfare made the dubious list the last three years running.

The federal government will help bolster the development of next-generation surveillance technology with a $75 million investment in Burlington, Ont.-based L-3 Wescam.

Both crystal meth and MDMA were seized during a Friday afternoon arrest, police say.

It's a building that has been described as neglected, derelict, a slum and haunted — but to one local heritage developer, there's nothing scary about the former Hamilton Asylum for the Insane.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Monday, March 23.

It'll still be a few months before Ontario winegrowers know just how much havoc the second straight brutal winter wrought on their vineyards.

Researchers are analyzing billions of tweets and Facebook profiles to study the general health of large populations in the view that big data might yield big rewards on the medical front.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats cheerleader coach isn't shy about how she'll judge the 50 women trying out for the Ticats cheer leading squad Saturday. She's been in the CFL as a cheerleader for more than two decades, since 1993, on top of her broadcasting career with CHCH.

Speaking about an annual report issued by the airport, Frank Scremin, CEO and president of John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport, said they would need a new discount airline looking for open slots outside of Toronto to reach the one-million passenger target set in 1996.

Four people are facing drug possession charges after a raid in Ancaster Thursday morning.

The province is giving Hamilton's LHIN $2 million to help with mental health and addictions services this year.

Ryan McGreal is a local advocate of transit, cycling and complete streets. He's been using Hamilton Bike Share for three months. Not suprisingly, he's a fan. Here's his review.

An attorney for Christina Noudga appeared in court on her behalf Friday for a procedural step toward trial.

Though an astrophysicist and former candidate for the Mars One project has denounced the proposed one-way trip to the red planet, a Burlington woman who is still in the running says she’s still totally on board, criticisms be damned.

Police from Hamilton an Niagara Region say they're investigating a string of four arsons last weekend in the Hamilton and Niagara-West Lincoln areas.

A group of McMaster students hopes to spark interest for kids to borrow bikes from libraries, an effort it sees as a complement to the city's new SoBi Hamilton bike share.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Friday, March 20.

Six Nations Elected Council has spent $805,000 so far on a $4.8-million incinerator project. Residents gathered at a community meeting Thursday to hear about health and environmental impacts, but many left with more questions than answers.

A new measles case was announced Wednesday in Hamilton. Officials cautioned people without full vaccination to check the places where the patient had been and see a doctor if they may have been exposed.

Two Hamilton men have been charged with assault with a weapon after taping themselves apparently flinging a cheeseburger at a sleeping elderly man inside a Barton Street McDonald's and posting it online.

Robert Keleti's Hamilton Jewellers shop has been transformed into a New York coin and pawn shop this week for a day of filming for the NBC pilot Warrior.

A Hamilton man has been charged with stealing a TV projector from someone’s car and then struggling with the driver who spotted him.

A man riding his bike over the ice in Cootes Paradise fell into the frigid water Wednesday evening, police say.

The owners of a lower city property pleaded guilty to altering a building in the St. Clair Avenue Heritage Conservation District without a heritage permit, the city announced Thursday.