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Hamilton Police's break-and-enter team arrested a 21-year-old man Tuesday on charges connected to five robberies in February, March and April.

Dellen Millard, 29, and Mark Smich, 27, accused of killing Tim Bosma after showing up at his house in 2013 to test drive a vehicle he was selling online, will be in court Thursday morning.

Guelph police were called to a Walmart and where they found that two men had forced open a lock securing expensive Dyson vacuum cleaners worth over $5,000 and had stolen six of them and left the store.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Thursday, April 30.

It will bring more visitors to Hamilton. It will draw the eyes of sports fans across North America. But local organizers are hoping the 2015 Pan Am Games have an added benefit — turning more people on to transit.

One of the arguments against a proposed waste to energy "gasification plant" on the Hamilton waterfront is how many waste sites Hamilton already houses — 47, to be exact.

The city will scrutinize the campaign finances of a Stoney Creek councillor who won a heated election race, but didn’t list how he funded his campaign in his official expense forms.

A labour arbitrator has ruled the city has to hire back 15 of 21 public works employees it fired in 2013 on allegations of time theft and breach of trust.

A 14-year-old is facing break and enter and arson charges following a fire at the Cannon Knitting Mills building Monday night.

Hamilton police have charged two people in connection with a pharmacy robbery in Waterdown last week – but they can’t arrest them just yet because they’re already in jail in Halton.

Brandon Clark, the son of former Hamilton councillor and MPP Brad Clark, was released from hospital Tuesday. The 29-year-old survived a shotgun wound to his back during a shooting-suicide in an east end apartment two weeks earlier.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Wednesday, April 29.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) has "three to five" companies waiting in the wings who want to run the slots at Flamboro Downs. But there will likely be nothing in the contract that says they have to stay there.

Hamilton’s Ross Prince has joined the recovery efforts in Nepal while “stranded” in the earthquake-ravaged country.

Numbers from the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association show rent costs more than social assistance gives out in Hamilton, but it's still cheaper than Toronto.

Female professors at McMaster University will get a pay boost after a study revealed a "systemic bias" in how their wages were set.

A motion filed with the Ontario Superior Court Monday by U.S. Steel is seeking to extend the deadline for restructuring to September. Meanwhile there is no decision yet on the release of the "secret deal with Ottawa.

A Cape Breton man is defending a garbage incinerator he invented after an engineering company found his machine spewed out toxins and carcinogens when it was tested in Ontario.

Meet your Hamilton-area finalists for the CBCs Searchlight competition: country duo Skinner.

Canada Post and the city of Hamilton will face off in court at the end of May in a landmark case over where the corporation puts new super mailboxes.

More officers from one of Hamilton police’s ACTION team units have been placed on administrative duty in the midst of a probe on false ticketing allegations.

A Hamilton man was arrested Monday after rolling down his window at a police stop and a huge plume of pot smoke billowed out of the car, police say.

Niagara police officers saw something unusual at a routine traffic stop Monday: a van being driven missing doors, windows and license plates. That's against the law.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Tuesday, April 28.

The city is trying to sell a building full of toxic waste barrels in a bid to recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars of unpaid taxes over the last few years.

Volunteers are collecting information about the experiences of homeless people to paint the nuanced picture of who in Hamilton is homeless, and what can be done to help them. And the data collected can help decision-makers prioritize who needs help most.

Hamilton Police say the death of a man whose body was found in a shopping centre dumpster is not suspicious.

A Hamilton man and his brother narrowly escaped being buried by rubble in Kathmandu, Saturday, after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal’s capital. And though his family knows they are very lucky he’s alive, they say the way the Canadian consulate is handing the disaster is “shameful.”

The city has sent a desperate letter to the premier and the head of Infrastructure Ontario (IO) warning that the Pan Am Games soccer matches are in jeopardy if the stadium isn't finished now.

A 17-year-old Flamborough man has been charged with stunt driving after police caught the teen driving 144 km/h in an 80 km/h zone.

Sales of dark roast coffee and lunch combos added momentum to revenue growth at Tim Hortons as parent company Restaurant Brands International pared down its losses in the first quarter helped by recent cost cuts.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Monday, April 27.

Ron Joyce, the billionaire co-founder of Tim Hortons, is on the receiving end of a civil suit alleging he sexually assaulted his sometime lover four years ago.

A man was taken to hospital with serious stabbing-related injuries early Sunday morning.

A 31-year-old man was taken to hospital around 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning after he was stabbed at a residence near Barton St. E. and Emerald St. N., police say.

A fire extensively damaged a two-storey brick house on a cul-de-sac in Stoney Creek Saturday night.

A pair of filmmakers is close to finishing a feature-length comedy, "The Bad Mother," that they hope plays on the comical side of the balancing act a family faces as both parents pursue their careers while raising kids.

Hamilton will play host to the Canadian qualifying tournament for the Homeless World Cup, played in Amsterdam this September.

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: Kennedy Cult, Danielle Fricke and Kevin Breit.

A man's body found in a dumpster in a shopping centre on the Mountain on Friday will undergo an autopsy as part of a coroner's investigation.

Thanks to Hamilton's visual diversity (and some favourable tax breaks) our little slice of southern Ontario has long been a destination of choice for filmmakers. Here are five productions that are shooting in Hamilton this year.

Sahab Jamshidi, the Canadian man charged with the drowning death of a 4-year-old St. Lucian boy will spend more time on the Caribbean island after his case was adjourned in the High Court on Friday.

The mood was mixed at a gathering of North Hamilton community leaders and residents Friday morning as they considered rapid changes coming to their relatively low-income neighbourhood.

The contractor has blamed weather and issues with subcontractors for the reason Tim Horton's Field is 10 months late. But one city councillor says it's late because from the contractor's perspective, there's no reason not to be.

A court decision that asserted a Six Nation's mother's right to choose alternative treatments for her daughter's cancer has been amended to include that the child's well-being is paramount.

Yet another pharmacy was robbed in the Hamilton area on Thursday police say, which doubles the amount of pharmacy robberies the city saw all last year.

Permanent repairs to the Burlington Skyway of the damage caused by last summer's dump truck crash are happening this weekend and will mean overnight closures of the Toronto-bound lanes

Tickets in Toronto to spend the day touring and learning about Hamilton sold out in less than 24 hours. It's official. Toronto loves Hamilton. Don't tell the Argonauts.

From monster trucks to a mom to mom sale, here are some fun things to do in Hamilton this weekend.

Canada Post has gone to court to try to get the city of Hamilton's bylaw dictating where it can put super mailboxes declared invalid.