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The city has inked a new deal with a local contractors association that will save taxpayers as much as $40 million next year – as well as see it use more local labour.

City councillors voted Wednesday to put the historic mansion on the market. But one of the bidders so far, Jeremy Freiburger, says it's been a long, weird process.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Thursday, May 21.

Late Wednesday, police arrested two men they say are responsible for the death of William McConville, a 40-year-old man who was the victim of a "serious assault" last Tuesday and died Friday from his injuries.

Two out of five people living on the streets or in homeless shelters in Hamilton said they've been attacked or beaten up since becoming homeless, a survey of 454 homeless people in the city core found last month.

There’s still a long way to go, but an icy relationship between two Hamilton bureaucracies that threatened an exciting new craft brewery appears to be thawing.

Wires duct taped to the sidewalk. Boxes put in the wrong spot, and other identical boxes put right next to them, doubling the problem. These are just some of the issues the city of Hamilton is fighting against Bell Canada, the second giant corporation the city has voted to battle this year.

Police have released a video of Sunday's Main Street East shootout as residents in one of Hamilton’s roughest lower-city wards plan a rally next week after three incidents of gun violence and assault rocked the area.

The latest death at the Barton Street Jail may end up being the sixth name added to the inquest list for drug-related deaths at the detention centre in less that four years, says the region's coroner.

A man involved in a serious crash earlier this month has died, marking the city’s 6th traffic death of the year. Police announced the Mississauga man’s death Wednesday.

Mayor Fred Eisenberger says the city should ban guns after a brazen daytime shooting in central Hamilton this week. But is that even something the city can make laws about?

A Canadian man accused in the drowning of a four-year-old boy in St. Lucia is hoping his name will soon be cleared as he makes one last bid to have the charge dismissed.

'Hack or be hacked': CBC Radio's technology columnist Jesse Hirsh explains why kids need to really know how technology works. He tells us about Kano, a tool that can help kids become sophisticated programmers.

The deal between the Canadian government and U.S. Steel that allowed the steelmaker to renege on its obligation to make steel in Canada — at plants in Hamilton and Nanticoke in Ontario — will remain a secret.

Bob Barker, former host of CBS's "The Price is Right," wants Canada's lone killer whale to be included in Ontario's proposed orca ban.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Wednesday, May 20.

UBER is coming to Hamilton, and the city is ready with an enforcement plan when it does.

Construction on a long-awaited bypass to ease Waterdown’s desperate traffic woes is expected to start this year. But one local official says he’ll believe it when he sees it.

After years of debate over powerful side effects, the use of antipsychotic medications to treat psychosis and dementia in Hamilton’s long-term care homes has dropped, according to Health Quality Ontario.

Classes and events at Mohawk’s Fennell campus will resume at 5 p.m. tonight after flooding in the C wing forced the campus to close early this morning.

The city of Hamilton and Canada Post made their arguments on CBC Radio's Metro Morning with Matt Galloway in the fight over how Hamilton gets its mail. Listen to Hamilton Coun. Terry Whitehead and Canada Post spokesperson Jon Hamilton. We ask you, who made the better case?

Several people were arrested for impaired driving in Hamilton last weekend, as police had their hands full over the Victoria Day holiday.

Hess Village bar and restaurant owners are suffering dwindling sales, and struggling to pay special paid duty policing fees, says Jason Farr. But they'll have to wait another month to see if that changes.

They say it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. That is, of course, unless someone is carrying dog-repellant.

One gunman in a brazen shootout Sunday fired into the path of passing motorists. Hamilton police are asking people who drove through central Hamilton Sunday to check their car for bullet holes – as they might be unintentionally carrying evidence with them.

An inmate died at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre Tuesday morning. Ministry of Corrections spokesperson Brent Ross confirmed the death in an email, but provided little other information.

Saltfleet High School was locked down Friday when police were called about a student with a gun – but in the end, the panic was actually caused by a misread text message.

Hamilton police have ruled out mechanical failure as the cause of a tragic crash that killed two high school friends on the Red Hill Valley Parkway earlier this month.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Tuesday, May 19.

The city and Hamilton’s largest union have reached a tentative agreement just hours before a strike deadline, keeping garbage trucks on the roads and pools open.

A 25-year-old defensive lineman who signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in April has died. The team and his representatives announced his death this weekend.

Canada Post's plan to stop home mail delivery and install community mailboxes is now under attack on multiple fronts.

Gunfire left bullet holes, abandoned shell casings and damage to a car and a business on Main Street East and East Ave. on Sunday evening. It was the second apparent shooting in 24 hours in the neighbourhood.

29-year-old Ryan Powless, a Hamilton bylaw officer, was the person killed in a collision on the 403 early Saturday morning, police said.

Retired bookseller Bryan Prince and his brother, Ross, are back from their trip to Nepal that coincided with the devastating earthquake in that country. And they're trying to hang onto memories and connections to friends they have back in Nepal as they get back into the swing of their lives in Canada.

The long holiday weekend marks the beginning of camping season across Ontario. But it also signals the start of tick season.

Brandon Clark, son of former MPP and city councillor Brad Clark, is back in hospital with pneumonia, his father says.

Two baby falcon beaks appeared this weekend on the ledge at the Hamilton Sheraton downton, and the FalconWatch community is overjoyed.

It’s that time of the week again – CBC Hamilton reporter Adam Carter is back with his three picks for new Ontario music that you need to listen to. Check out great new tracks from Will Currie and the Country French, Lonnie in the Garden and Emilio Bonito.

Police have charged a 30-year-old man with second-degree murder after the stabbing death of 28-year-old Ricky Doucette on Barton Street East last February.

A "horrific scene" opened the long weekend on the roads after a truck going the wrong way on Highway 403 in Burlington hit an eastbound vehicle early Saturday.

St. Joseph’s Healthcare has launched an internal review into the care of John Greene, after court documents revealed the man who viciously assaulted a young Hamilton girl last year tried to get psychiatric care just days before the attack.

A man found unconscious after a "serious assault" near Stinson Street and Victoria Avenue South died in hospital Friday, and police homicide detectives have taken over the investigation.

The David Braley Health Sciences Centre was unveiled in downtown Hamilton after 11 years of planning and building.

Citing their own personal experiences and parochial passions councillors countered the intent of a much-heralded new process for handing out grants Friday, approving tens of thousands of dollars in additional money.

Police have found a wanted man, one they said was armed and dangerous after fight between two groups of men in Stoney Creek ended in gunfire Wednesday afternoon.

What you need to know to make the most of the long weekend

iagara Region police say a Hamilton man faces charges after a farm tractor was involved in a fatal collision Thursday evening in the Township of West Lincoln.

Federal Minister of Health Rona Ambrose announced nearly $8 million in funding to tackle prescription painkiller abuse while in Hamilton Friday.

It will be a tense long weekend in Hamilton as the city and union representing 3,400 workers work plan to work overtime on Monday to hammer out an agreement.