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The rain cleared away last night to make way for a beautiful Wednesday, but don't put away your umbrellas just yet.

After years of demolition and construction around the former Ivor Wynne site, the Pan Am Games are about to start. What does that mean for people in the restricted zone?

Jason Farr has gotten a tenuous agreement from fellow councillors that the city should pay for half the special policing costs for Hess Village. Now he's just hoping that it holds.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the City of Hamilton, with a cold front on its way that could bring up to 50 mm of rain.

Defensive lineman Adrian Tracy of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats was fined by the CFL on Tuesday for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Drew Willy last week.

Lily Usik says she can’t see a downside to the plan to blanket part of north Flamborough with 60,000 solar panels as part of a Samsung solar farm.

The 48-year-old former Toronto Maple Leafs captain says he’s excited to be part of downtown Hamilton’s resurgence.

A Hamilton man is facing robbery and assault charges after trying to steal a moped right out from under its rider while police were watching him.

There were some tense moments for an air ambulance in Norfolk County Saturday night when the crew of an Ornge emergency helicopter was hit by a laser.

Realtors in Hamilton are reporting record-breaking sales for the third month in a row. According to the Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB), June’s record of 2,062 property sales broke the previous months record of 1,810 sales.

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

Exhibit by June Pak examines at the commodification of sport, and turns the lens on the audience.

It’s a move years in the making, but city councillors have finally approved free parking for everyone with an Ontario veteran’s license plate — for now.

Nine city councillors agreed to the spirit of the grassroots political effort during the municipal election. But the organizer says most of them are ignoring it now.

Buoyed by recent successes with fish stocks in the area, the Ministry of Natural Resources is sending a truck full of 50,000 walleye to Hamilton Monday to introduce more of the popular sport fish to the area.

One person is dead and two people have been sent to hospital following an ammonia leak at a food factory in Fort Erie Monday.

An 85,000-pound extra from the latest Godzilla film is rumbling down the highway towards Hamilton Monday – but thankfully, it isn’t the monster itself.

In the shadow of Hamilton's new stadium is a street that has been left behind. One organizers hoped to cover up by filling empty storefronts with Hamilton's latest export: art.

Trains will start running into the new - but unfinished - James Street North GO station this week just in time for the Pan Am Games. Minister of Transportation Steven Del Duca was one of the first to use the new station Monday afternoon.

Burlington transit workers rejected a tentative agreement between the union and the city on Sunday, forcing both sides to go back to the bargaining table.

A townhouse fire on the Mountain Sunday evening caused $110,000 in damages and forced out the home’s tenants.

The SIU has been called in after an incident in Lincoln, Ont., that left two civilians dead and two Niagara Regional Police officers injured.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, traffic and more for Monday, July 6.

A small group of alternative lifestyle enthusiasts held a picnic in Gage Park Sunday.

Police were called after numerous complaints from residents about loud music, swearing and urinating in public.

Grey County OPP are investigating the death of a four-year-old boy on a rural property in Southgate Township.

Six Nations authorities are investigating a fire that broke out at a trailer home Saturday afternoon, the ninth suspicious structure fire in recent months.

Check out great new tracks from Megan Landry, Big Dick and Jon Knight & Soulstack.

Halton Regional Police say they've charged a 33-year old Oakville woman in connection with a fatal hit-and-run incident in Milton.

Parts of the ​Wentworth stairs will be closed starting on Monday for maintenance work, the city said.

Gemma New, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra's newest music director, was hired in May after a two-year search, making her of the few female conductors in North America and one of only two in Canada.

A cyclist is dead after a hit and run on Tremaine Road in Milton.

Lisa Breton was worried about her children missing out on Canada’s French culture when she was living with her family in New York, so she did the only sensible thing she could do.

Two Hamilton men are facing a host of charges after a lawn tractor and mini-excavator worth tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from a heavy equipment supply company.

An all-weekend event, the largest francophone arts and culture festival on the Niagara Peninsula will be going on at Gage Park.

A widespread ammunition shortage afflicting gun owners across North America hit Hamilton police so hard last year they had a hard time scrounging up enough ammo to get officers trained and certified — and we have the U.S. to thank for that problem.

A shirtless Hamilton man took advantage of a driver who left keys in the ignition while buying gas, stealing the car before crashing the vehicle into a fence and setting the car on fire.

A pizza delivery driver was robbed at knifepoint Friday morning in Hamilton.

A Tim Hortons employee is accused of stealing over $200,000 from a Burlington, Ont., franchise between January 2014 and May 2015, say Halton Regional Police.

A man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a motorcycle crash in Hamilton Thursday afternoon.

A Stoney Creek, Ont., couple has arrived in the nation's capital with their immaculately-designed motorcycle, which pays tribute to the Canadian military.

Tons of bands – both local and otherwise – are also rolling through town. In the spirit of celebrating all the (largely free) music in Hamilton this summer, here are five acts you really need to check out at a festival this year.

Three green energy projects are all hoping for city council endorsement to help them be among those awarded provincial contracts

Zach Collaros passed for 354 yards and two touchdowns as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats scored six majors in a 52-26 rout of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday. Drew Willy, Winnipeg's starting quarterback, left the field with a suspected head injury.

A yearlong trail survey is being launched next Thursday in an effort to get a more extensive understanding of Hamilton and Burlington’s trail systems.

Hamilton Police are asking for the public's help locating an 86-year-old Hamilton man who went missing in the afternoon of Canada Day.

Need to know how to get to the soccer stadium at the Pan Am Games? We've got you covered if you're commuting on rail, automobile or pedal power from within the city coming from outside the city.

After 50 years of covering sports across the world the CBC's Steve Armitage weighs on what has him excited about the Pan Am Games.

Jason Farr says he’d like to try to salvage a plan to give McMaster University free land in exchange for the school building a new downtown campus despite no provincial funding.

This year's list of appointees to the Order of Canada is out, and among those being given the country's second highest honour is author and activist Lawrence Hill. Metro Morning guest host Nil Köksal spoke with Hill Thursday morning. Here’s what he had to say.