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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.

A pathway that helps protect women from developing Type 2 diabetes has become a new target for treatment research.

Yet another Hamilton taxi driver has been robbed at knifepoint, this time around Emerald and Shaw Streets early Wednesday morning.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Thursday, March 19.

The full fleet of SoBi Hamilton bikes will hit local streets Friday and Saturday under the bike share's long-awaited launch.

A Brantford senior lost $40,000 after falling victim to a lottery scam, according to police.

A group of elusive suspects are on trial at Hamilton’s John Sopinka Courthouse: bedbugs.

Hamilton adult likely caught measles while travelling outside of the province but may have exposed others in public places in Hamilton, public health officials say.

A new study co-authored by a McMaster University researcher has found that people who have recently contracted HIV may not be as infectious as previously thought — a notion that could influence treatment plans in Third World countries.

Opponents of Bill C-51 and local MPs will meet at Hamilton city hall Wednesday night for a forum on the government's controversial proposed anti-terrorism legislation.

Hamilton’s transit union has made a request with the Ministry of Labour that would legally allow its members to go on strike next month.

A group of Ontario firefighters will be running in full bunker gear at Hamilton's Around The Bay Road Race later this month to raise awareness for the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on first responders.

Four people were sent to hospital with stab wounds after a St. Patrick's Day house party got out of control near McMaster University, Hamilton police say.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Wednesday, March 18.

Hamilton Coun. Sam Merulla has backed off his call for rail companies to share daily, real-time information about what they're shipping through the city.

The Canadian women's soccer team will close out its World Cup warmup schedule with a game against England on May 29 at Hamilton's Tim Hortons Field.

A high school student from Hamilton was revealed on Monday as one of the 3,000 torchbearers for the upcoming Pan Am Games, a secret he kept guarded until this week.

Hamilton will be one of three pilot cities participating in an effort to provide places to live, accompanied by supportive services, for people experiencing homelessness.

Hamilton police have released security footage of three pharmacy robberies on the Mountain this year. They say one suspect is believed to be behind all three incidents.

When a blood-vessel injury sidelined Henrik Lundqvist in early February, everyone knew the New York Rangers' playoff chances would be affected.

The U.S. Steel Canada mills and properties in Hamilton and Nanticoke could be sold within the year under a plan scheduled to be heard in Superior Court in Toronto on March 30.

Here's your news, weather and traffic for Tuesday, Mar. 17.

The Ontario government now has until April 2 to appeal a controversial court ruling that said the family of an 11-year-old First Nations girl with cancer has a constitutional right to choose traditional aboriginal medicine over chemotherapy.

Elizabeth May talks with CBC Hamilton about air and water quality, the need she sees for Great Lakes cleanup and rail cargo safety.

Ontario's highest court dismissed an appeal Monday from a man who argued his gun offence convictions were the result of racial profiling.

Hamilton police are looking for a robbery suspect who allegedly swung a belt at a young person and took his bike on the Mountain in Hamilton over the weekend.

Here's your news, weather and traffic for Monday, Mar. 16.

A garbage incinerator bought by the Six Nations Reserve under a promise of zero emissions was found to have spewed toxins and carcinogens at levels up to 200 times the provincial limit, according to a report obtained by CBC Hamilton.

Hamilton rock group Arkells took home two big awards as the weekend music festival in the group's hometown showcased the best of Canadian music.