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A 74-year-old man who participated in the city's survey of people experiencing homelessness this spring has been missing since Thursday, Hamilton Police say.

A woman has died after suffering serious burns in an east-end apartment fire.

Tuesday morning CBC Hamilton spoke with NDP leader Thomas Mulcair. He's scheduled for a campaign-style stop in Hamilton Tuesday evening at a rally with supporters including local candidates. It's part of an Ontario tour with a federal election just a few months away.

Here's a list of what you need to know about the Pan Am games schedule and local cultural events on Tuesday, July 21.

Canada's women's basketball team made history by defeating the Americans in the gold medal final to become the country's first team to earn a major international championship in the sport.

After fielding threats from parent company U. S. Steel its financing would be cut, U.S. Steel Canada is filing to replace its original bankruptcy lender.

36,000 Mountain residents today had their first day visiting super mailboxes to get their mail. The fight against them goes on for some.

Arkells frontman Max Kerman helped an Ottawa man concoct an unforgettable wedding proposal when he pretended to be a busker on the streets of the nation’s capital earlier this month.

A dog spent over an hour panting in a scorching-hot car on Stoney Creek Mountain in Hamilton, but with police and animal control not responding, Stephanie Baran had to decide whether to take action on her own to save the pet.

Hamilton's police chief on Thursday is expected to address concerns raised last month about privacy issues and racial bias in the service's on-the-street policing tactics.

The association representing Ontario craft brewers has launched self-guided "discovery tours" in and around the province's protected Greenbelt region.

The heat alert issued for Hamilton over the weekend has been cancelled, but the forecast calls for temperatures in the mid to high 20s and sunshine all week.

Here's a list of what you need to know about the Pan Am games schedule and local cultural events on Monday, July 20.

Two separate collisions Sunday involved motorcycle riders hitting highway guard rails and being thrown from their bikes.

A woman close to the victim in says the canine was not as vicious as its being portrayed.

Canada will play the U.S. for gold in women's basketball after dispatching Brazil by a score of 91-63 Sunday at the Toronto Pan Am Games.

The Colombia/Belgium-based band played at the Hamilton World Music Festival at Gage Park on Saturday, after their performance at a Pan Am stage in Toronto.

Why is Canada winning like never before? Some say it's the home field advantage. Some say it's weak competition. But almost mid-way through the Pan Am Games team Canada has won more medals than any other country. One prominent sports psychologist says there's more to it than all that.

​A four-year-old child has died after she was found in a swimming pool in Brantford Saturday.

​Scattered thunderstorms are expected Sunday afternoon as a hot, muggy weekend comes to an end.

Here's a list of what you need to know about the Pan Am games schedule and local cultural events on Sunday, July 19.

An artwork called the "Witness Blanket" is on display now at the Hamilton Public Library through Aug. 29. The piece comprises more than 800 individual items arranged and hung to look like a decorative quilt or blanket.

The Sherman Hub, once a flourishing neighbourhood because of the steel mills is no longer, but the area's chairperson believe that could change thanks to the Pan Am Games.

Check out our gallery of portraits of people from the Pan Am Games.

Check out great new tracks from Chastity, Hairy Holler and Spells of Vertigo.

A Mississauga woman has been charged after reportedly driving on the wrong way on highways 403 and 407 early Saturday morning, police say.

The Centennial Parkway is closed between Goderich Street and Arrowsmith Drive this weekend to move the CN train tracks to the newly constructed rail bridge.

Temperatures in Hamilton soared to above 30 C on Saturday as the city came under a heat warning from Environment Canada.

When Midsummer’s Dream colour festival organizer Mark Gowland was accused of "cultural appropriation," he went straight to the Hindu Samaj Temple for guidance. Now, the temple is partnering with the festival for the first time ever.

One lived 10,000 BC years ago, has a loincloth and unibrow and skulked around prehistoric Hamilton. The other is a modern-day woman presenting her first play at the fringe festival. And somehow, Grog and Francesca Brugnano have a lot in common.

A three day festival of free music and arts, the Hamilton World Music Festival will be at Gage Park this weekend, playing host to artists from all over the world.

The city's medical officer is calling a Stage 2 heat warning this weekend, which triggers extra swim times and free drop-in swims at local pools.

Hamilton police were called to a report of a man with a gun entering a Cumberland Ave. apartment building.

Hamilton police fraud officers have laid further charges on a financial adviser they first charged a year ago.

A 75-year-old former Brantford man has been charged with sexual offences that occurred sometime between 1979 and 1981.

The path to getting ready for the games hasn't been easy for Hamilton, so says Mayor Fred Eisenberger.

A Hamilton city councillor is calling for police to be involved in a city investigation into allegations that a public works manager bought personal stuff with a city credit card.

The city now knows who owns the dog that attacked a Hamilton man before he died screaming in the street last week, but it wont make a decision on whether or it will be put down until next week.

A man ended up in hospital Thursday after three men forced their way into his central Hamilton home with a knife and attacked him with his own bear spray, police say.

The contracts mark a milestone in the decades-long struggle to get the country's largest coal tar contamination site cleaned up.

Hamilton Police have arrested a 69-year-old Hamilton man who tried to protest the installation of a super mailbox on the Mountain Thursday.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, traffic and more for Friday, July 17.

Check out our gallery of portraits of people from the Pan Am Games.

The city has started a branding exercise to improve HSR's image.

The widow of Steve Mesic, a man shot and killed by police two years ago, is suing Hamilton Police Service for more than $1-million for damages, claiming the officers acted 'carelessly, recklessly and with wanton disregard.'

S.J. Green's third-quarter reception and big games from the defence and kick coverage teams lifted the Montreal Alouettes to a 17-13 victory over the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats in a defensive CFL struggle Thursday night.

U.S. Law enforcement has been investigating the possible involvement of the head of Six Nations tobacco company Grand River Enterprises and a director of the Big Bee Convenience Store chain in a large marijuana growing operation in northern California.

A subcontractor who worked on Hamilton's CIBC Pan Am Soccer Stadium claims in a construction lien the project was mismanaged and that major defects to the structural steel of the stadium drove up costs and delayed the stadium's competition.

Tim Hortons has offered voluntary buyouts to about 15 per cent of its total Canadian staff of more than 2,000 employees, CBC News has learned.

Almost 2,500 people have signed a petition asking Hamilton animal control to not put down a dog that was involved in attack after which a man died. But that petition falsely states that the dog did not attack Matthew Brigmantas.