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It’s been less than 24 hours, and already the city of Hamilton is looking at charging Canada Post under a new law that dictates where the corporation can install super mailboxes.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats were the lone team to exceed the CFL's $5-million salary cap last season. The league announced Thursday the Ticats finished $8,939 over the cap, earning them a $8,939 fine, or $1 for each dollar they were over. Hamilton was the lone team to go over the cap last year.

Police and ambulance are at St. Jean de Brébeuf for an apparent stabbing in the downstairs hallway, says one student.

The band answered life's important questions: like why their name doesn't have a "the" in front of it and what it's like to meet Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.

A judge has ruled the city owes $8 million to a boy who was hit by a car at a crosswalk 13 years ago when a crossing guard left work early.

Members of the ATU 107 voted 86% in favour of the new deal which amounts to a 7 per cent pay increase over the four years of the deal.

This is your brain on whisky: its sluggish, predictable, non-chaotic, and neurochemical messages never reach their intended targets. Your brain on whisky, and all alcohol for that matter, is linear.

The son of former city councillor Brad Clark was taken out of a medically-induced coma earlier this week as doctors worked to repair the damage caused by a shotgun blast at close range — but he still hasn't woken up since his third surgery.

A veteran Hamilton police officer and his lawyer are reviewing 700 pages of documents from police counsel on five Police Services Act charges related to employee benefits, ammunition and licence plates.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Thursday, April 16.

There's a danger that lurks in the night that might be worse than a nightmare. Sleep deprivation is a problem experts say has reached epidemic proportions, with often devastating effects for children of all ages. Katherine Ashenburg wrote about this for The Walrus Magazine. Listen here.

The national women's hockey program is bringing more than 100 promising young players to the city for a development camp next month, including the latest member of Hamilton's Nurse family poised to enter the national sporting stage.

The provincial Ministry of the Environment has released its annual air quality report for 2013, and though there are some improvements, Hamilton’s air quality is still among the worst in the province in some categories.

Hamilton city councillors want the province to give extra scrutiny to a proposed gasification plant to make sure the project won’t cause health or environmental damage to the city’s residents.

The news of CanJet layoffs should temper the aspirations of NewLeaf Travel Co., an "ultra-low-cost carrier" that wants to be Canada's answer to Ryanair and Easyjet in Europe, says a McMaster business analyst.

Charmini Peli Kankanamalage is terrified she stole her son's connection to his homeland of Sri Lanka - and that guilt inspired her new docudrama short called "M'al d'archive."

Police in Burlington say an armed robbery reported at a city bakery never actually happened.

Police arrested a 26-year-old man Tuesday and charged him with three counts of robbery and breaking probation linked to three pharmacy robberies in March and April.

Hamilton city council wants to charge Canada Post for installing super mailboxes and control where they are located. Canada Post says it can do what it wants to when it comes to mailboxes.

The kingpin of what has been called Canada's largest human trafficking ring was deported to Hungary on April 10, the Canada Border Services Agency announced Tuesday.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Wednesday, April 15.

An Ontario businessman with a career in airlines and hotels says he hopes his ultra-low-cost airline, NewLeaf Travel Co., will have its eastern stop in Hamilton.

As council prepares to put fight Canada Post over the installation of super mailboxes, a Mountain resident who's lived with one for years vents his frustration over the experience.

Researchers are looking to some of nature's tiniest creatures for hints on combating superbugs, bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotics scientists have found so far. And the Canadian government announced Monday it's investing $1.5 million in furthering their exploration.

City officials have told the stadium builders to redo part of their work on the east stands, adding a fresh delay to the troubled project.

Hamilton police are looking for a suspect in the latest in a series of pharmacy robberies. A Friday afternoon robbery made 13 so far in 2015, nearly double the seven pharmacy robberies in all of last year.

As of April 15, if you have any fuel-burning appliances, a fireplace or an attached garage, you must have a carbon monoxide alarm in your home. The new law was named after an OPP officer who died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Two suspects crashed an orange Kia Rio into Peoples Jewellers on Barton Street East on Tuesday.

Hamilton police are combing the computer and other belongings of a 25-year-old man who opened fire in a Queenston Road apartment Sunday, leaving four people injured, looking for clues as to what led to the tragic attack.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Tuesday, April 14.

With vacancy rates for two-bedroom apartments below an acceptable level, a city policy says condo conversions must be put on hold for two years.

Among the most contentious pieces of a tentative deal struck between the city and Hamilton Street Railway bus drivers to avoid a strike last week: A cap on the amount of physiotherapy the drivers can get.

Over 110,000 people have watched a violent bench brawl erupt between the Hamilton Mountain Blues and the Onaping Falls Huskies during a hockey tournament in Bradford, Ont. last month.

A Hamilton man is in stable condition after he was stabbed multiple times on the central Mountain Saturday night.

"A sharp and fast moving cold front will bring a sudden end to the warm air and sunshine," Environment Canada said in a special statement issued Monday.

While walking home from work on Sunday, in the area near Hughson Street North and Wilson Street, police say a Hamilton man was stabbed several times.

Former city councillor Brad Clark's son has pulled through two surgeries after being shot at close range in the city's east end early Sunday — but he's now facing a third operation after his internal organs were severely damaged.

An 82-year old Ancaster woman suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle at a Pioneer gas station in Cainsville near Brantford on Saturday afternoon.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Monday, April 13.

A strip of historic buildings lining Gore Park has endured two frigid winters exposed to the elements without heat – and now it’s just a matter of time before they rot away, says the city’s former head of heritage planning.

The son of former Ontario MPP and Hamilton city councillor Brad Clark is in serious condition after a shooting in the city's east end that left the gunman dead.

Canada's Nexxice did just enough in the free skate program on Saturday to claim the gold medal at the 20-country ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships.

The city hopes to dress up Barton Street by putting art installations in abandoned storefronts and holding events on the street.

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. Up this week: Beth Moore, Lee Reed and Stuck on Planet Earth.

In the OHL draft Saturday, the Hamilton Bulldogs passed on Hamilton native Hayden Davis, but went for a local pick in the second round, selecting Stoney Creek's Reilly Webb.

Canada's Nexxice has taken the lead at the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships by producing the top short program at the 20-country event.

New Statistics Canada numbers say Canada gained 29,000 jobs in March by adding 56,800 part time jobs, and losing 28,200 full time workers.

As the city prepares to grant an additional $500,000 in its new arts funding program, artists and organizations outside of the mainstream are hopeful the gates will be swung open to include them.

Former Belleville Bulls coach and GM George Burnett is moving with the team, and has been named the head coach and general manager of the new Hamilton Bulldogs.

GO Transit agency said the track switch issue has been resolved.