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The city approved its operating budget this week. Here's an easy breakdown of what that means to you.

Hamilton's hot housing market may be showing signs of slowing, at least in terms of housing starts, according to the latest report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Friday, April 10.

The bacteria better known as a blue-green algae bloom can rise to the surface or sink below it using specialized cells to control their depth. The crew aboard the Limnos, Canada's floating lab in the Great Lakes, spends the season chasing the blooms to learn more about the bacteria.

Hamilton Police are considering recording details about race when they stop people on the street who aren't under investigation and take their ID or record information. Voices who've closely followed the tensions elsewhere make the case for collecting it.

It’s getting down to the wire for the 2015 Pan Am Games, and construction crews are still likely weeks away from finishing the new stadium that will house the event’s soccer games.

The World Synchronized Figure Skating Championships come to Hamilton this weekend with almost 500 competitors from over 20 different countries, and Team Canada is brimming with excitement.

In 1994, when investigative reporter Linden MacIntyre spoke of the saddest story he had ever heard, he was talking about an 11-year-old boy from Hamilton. Watch that documentary here. It's part of the 40th anniversary celebration of the CBC's fifth estate, which airs Thursday at 9 p.m.

A new report from a city-hired environmental consultant says the environmental screening done by the company proposing a controversial waste to energy plant on the waterfront is inadequate.

After another hour of debating over it, and tie votes in either direction, city council will keep studying Hamilton's ward boundaries.

An 18-year-old Hamilton man is facing charges after his mother was stabbed in Waterdown Wednesday night.

Sandy Shaw says she wants to try to balance all interests in her new role as city representative on the Port Authority Board and is ready for the pressure that will come with representing city interests at the port.

HSR drivers will get a look at the details of the deal on Sunday and vote sometime next week. Meanwhile, the buses will run as usual.

Performers with award-winning credentials including Lee Harvey Osmond, Laura Cole, Diana Panton and Harrison Kennedy will play concerts surrounding the 2015 Hamilton Music Awards, the festival's organizer announced Thursday.

As home prices rise out of reach for some renters in Hamilton, the city plans to help some first time homebuyers get into the market and help keep their neighbourhoods intact at the same time

With a possible strike looming as early as Thursday — the two sides are in talks Wednesday with a deadline of midnight — Jamie Smith is frantically working on a backup commuting plan and frustrated at city council.

Police are investigating after a hiker found a decomposed body around Stoney Creek on Easter Sunday.

The Hamilton police budget is one of the largest at city hall, and on Wednesday, councillors are expected to call on the board to get an outside audit every year. Follow all the action at city council live starting at 5 p.m.

Hamilton’s oldest cemetery was the victim of vandalism over Easter Weekend.

City buses will run as usual on Thursday morning, even as the strike deadline has passed for negotiations between the city and HSR drivers.

Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning for Hamilton Thursday, with up to 50 mm possible in some areas.

A man wielding a fake gun inside a sock tried to rob a Walmart on Rymal Road East on Tuesday but nearby shoppers sprang into action to restrain him.

This "go back to Toronto" sticker was slapped onto a sign advertising the Tivoli high-rise condo project approved by council last week on James Street North. Here's what you had to say about it.

On International Day of Pink, Mohawk College was among a number of local schools that used the day to rally against bullying and celebrate diversity

Kia Nurse moved from Hamilton to the University of Connecticut and just kept winning. After high school championships in Hamilton 2011 and 2012 she starts her American College career with an NCAA title.

Forecasted rainfall could bring flooding to low-lying areas, the Hamilton Conservation Authority warned in a statement.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Wednesday, April 7.

He owns the city's largest fleet of taxi cabs. She's been in the taxi industry since 1964. Together, they were the only two drivers to attend the city's special training for Hamilton cab drivers leading up to the Pan Am Games.

Hamilton's Tom Wilson, set to release a new LeE HARVeY OsMOND CD, says he still has a lot of fight in him and has never felt more vibrant as an artist.

An innovative program that pairs police and mental health workers as first responders to certain 9-1-1 calls is expanding to seven days a week.

Hamilton police are looking for "wedding crashers" who disrupted a wedding reception over the weekend

Police are investigating after a hiker found a decomposed body around Stoney Creek on Easter Sunday.

In just her first year in American college basketball former Hamilton high school basketball star Kia Nurse will play for the NCAA championship Tuesday night.

Council builds bridges between local Hamilton media and diverse communities.

An Ontario artist, whose sculpture depicting a homeless Jesus sleeping under a blanket on a park bench was unveiled a week ago in downtown Buffalo, has plans to install the sculpture in Hamilton and Kitchener.

Negotiations between the city and its bus drivers continue Tuesday afternoon with a strike deadline just days away.

Members of the public and the media will be able to attend pretrial hearings for the men accused of killing Ancaster's Tim Bosma, a Hamilton court ruled Tuesday.

Police and fire investigators are investigating four rural fires set Sunday and Monday.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Tuesday April 7.

Gasification project head Robert Clark says there is more than enough waste produced in Hamilton to meet its needs. But in provincial applications, it seeks permission to bring in waste from across the country.

The first inbound ship in Hamilton Harbour this year is the MV Pacific Huron, carrying a load of steel coil from Italy and Spain.

Police and fire investigators are probing two rural fires Sunday and Monday.

Work is set to begin Wednesday on a waterfront redevelopment project that will affect the walkway from Guise Street to Williams Cafe on Pier 7.

Hamilton police and paramedics responded to a stabbing just after 10:30 p.m. near the Cash For Gold storefront on the corner of James St. North and King Street East.

A two-storey house near Stone Church Road and Upper Wellington St. sustained heavy damage in a fire Sunday evening.

Three years after a devastating back injury, a motocross racer from Stoney Creek, Ont. is not only walking again, but also preparing to run for a good cause and return to the race track.

A Hamilton-bound ship that ran aground in the St. Lawrence Seaway near Beauharnois, Que., on Friday has been freed.

In a sign that spring has finally sprung, binocular-wearing hawk enthusiasts joined experts to observe the spring migration at the annual Niagara Peninsula Hawkwatch's open house.

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: Terra Lightfoot, JJ and the Pillars and Coleman Hell.

Halton police have made an arrest a day after a woman allegedly robbed a Burlington comic book store armed with a hammer.