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Canada Post's plan to stop home mail delivery and install community mailboxes is now under attack on multiple fronts.

Gunfire left bullet holes, abandoned shell casings and damage to a car and a business on Main Street East and East Ave. on Sunday evening. It was the second apparent shooting in 24 hours in the neighbourhood.

29-year-old Ryan Powless, a Hamilton bylaw officer, was the person killed in a collision on the 403 early Saturday morning, police said.

Retired bookseller Bryan Prince and his brother, Ross, are back from their trip to Nepal that coincided with the devastating earthquake in that country. And they're trying to hang onto memories and connections to friends they have back in Nepal as they get back into the swing of their lives in Canada.

The long holiday weekend marks the beginning of camping season across Ontario. But it also signals the start of tick season.

Brandon Clark, son of former MPP and city councillor Brad Clark, is back in hospital with pneumonia, his father says.

Two baby falcon beaks appeared this weekend on the ledge at the Hamilton Sheraton downton, and the FalconWatch community is overjoyed.

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. Check out great new tracks from Will Currie and the Country French, Lonnie in the Garden and Emilio Bonito.

Police have charged a 30-year-old man with second-degree murder after the stabbing death of 28-year-old Ricky Doucette on Barton Street East last February.

A "horrific scene" opened the long weekend on the roads after a truck going the wrong way on Highway 403 in Burlington hit an eastbound vehicle early Saturday.

St. Joseph’s Healthcare has launched an internal review into the care of John Greene, after court documents revealed the man who viciously assaulted a young Hamilton girl last year tried to get psychiatric care just days before the attack.

A man found unconscious after a "serious assault" near Stinson Street and Victoria Avenue South died in hospital Friday, and police homicide detectives have taken over the investigation.

The David Braley Health Sciences Centre was unveiled in downtown Hamilton after 11 years of planning and building.

Citing their own personal experiences and parochial passions councillors countered the intent of a much-heralded new process for handing out grants Friday, approving tens of thousands of dollars in additional money.

Police have found a wanted man, one they said was armed and dangerous after fight between two groups of men in Stoney Creek ended in gunfire Wednesday afternoon.

What you need to know to make the most of the long weekend

iagara Region police say a Hamilton man faces charges after a farm tractor was involved in a fatal collision Thursday evening in the Township of West Lincoln.

Federal Minister of Health Rona Ambrose announced nearly $8 million in funding to tackle prescription painkiller abuse while in Hamilton Friday.

It will be a tense long weekend in Hamilton as the city and union representing 3,400 workers work plan to work overtime on Monday to hammer out an agreement.

The three city workers who were hit by an SUV Thursday were following safety regulations, the city says, but the Ministry of Labour is still investigating what happened.

David Gillan, a 46-year-old Stoney Creek man charged with robbery and break and enter, has removed his monitoring bracelet and is wanted by police.

A veteran Hamilton police officer and his lawyer are continuing to review 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 Friday, May 15.

Police call him the Vaulter and Canada's bankers will announce today that they're doubling the reward for the bank robbery suspect.

The bible on bullying gets an update. Parenting expert Barbara Coloroso talks about her updated book and the best way to respond to a bully online and in person.

The city's grants committee is set to meet Friday, this time armed with new breakdowns of who is getting some of the city's extra $500,000 in arts funding and $250,000 in other grants categories.

Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca promised visit still hasn't been scheduled but Hamilton's mayor believes when he comes it will be to announce an LRT plan.

Conservation authority says the tree was inspected mid-March, and that the branch that fell was still alive, falling because heat surge caused "sudden summer limb drop."

A report from Colliers International compares Hamilton and Milwaukee, saying the smaller cities should attract businesses in part due to their proximity and cheaper costs to larger cities of Toronto and Chicago.

Hamilton home prices registered the largest gain over the past year among 11 urban markets measured in a national index released Wednesday.

Three Burlington city workers — two of whom were summer students — were rushed to hospital Thursday morning after a SUV mounted the median where they were working.

Police are searching for a man they say is armed and dangerous after fight between two groups of men in Stoney Creek ended in gunfire Wednesday afternoon.

A Flamborough resident and long-time opponent of Hamilton's amalgamation says he has a petition with more than 1,000 names on it asking that the city not review its ward boundaries.

Four Hamilton councillors have written to the federal government again as part of an ongoing battle between the city and Canada Post over super mailboxes.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Thursday, May 14.

A weak grip is linked to a higher risk of dying from both cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular diseases, says a new study from McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences.

Hamilton Police have released video of a March robbery in an east end convenience store. They're looking for 3 suspects.

A McMaster University professor has written to the school's president with hopes he'll hold a seat for Omar Khadr, saying universities have an "important role to play in fostering justice and affirming peace."

A Canadian man charged with the drowning death of a four-year-old St. Lucian boy appeared in court on the Caribbean island on Wednesday to hear the case against him.

It’s a sign of up-and-down weather in Hamilton: forecasters have issued a frost advisory.

Two kilograms of suspected opium were seized at Hamilton International Airport in April, the Canadian Border Services Agency said on Wednesday.

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney says he was unaware of Hamilton lawyer Hussein Hamdani's political support of the Liberals when the decision was made to suspend him from a cross-cultural security roundtable.

Kent Page of UNICEF talks about what he saw when the ground started to shake in Nepal on Tuesday and explains how people there are helping children cope with the psychological trauma of having lived through two major quakes in just over two weeks.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats acquired offensive lineman Ryan Bomben from the Montreal Alouettes for two picks in the 2015 CFL draft Tuesday.

A group of Grade 5 students stopped by a retirement home in Hamilton bearing special gifts: their colourful ukuleles.

It took about 15 minutes behind closed doors on Tuesday for a committee to rule that Doug Conley’s election expenses are OK. And the councillor says as far as he knows, he doesn’t have to submit revised ones for the public record.

Ian Thomas, a veteran Hamilton musician and award winner, will host this year’s Hamilton Music Awards (HMAs).

Police are looking for a missing handgun in Brantford after a man allegedly broke into a woman’s house and held the gun her head.

A mother called police on her own daughter Tuesday morning after the two got into an argument and said the daughter drove off drunk, police say.

A serious assault in the area of St. Patrick Catholic Elementary school forced the school to be temporarily placed in a "hold and secure" situation Tuesday afternoon, police say.