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If you're driving this weekend, steer clear of James Street.

Sometimes he reads books like Justice Belied. Sometimes he chats with neighbours. Sometimes he brings his dog, Albert. Henry Evans-Tenbrinke has been sitting on a concrete pad on Brucedale Avenue to prevent Canada Post contractors from installing a super mailbox.

The Canadian government might not want him anymore, but the department of Homeland Security still wants to hear what Hussein Hamdani has to say about deradicalization. U.S. officials have invited him to speak at a conference on fighting violent extremism in Washington.

The ceremony to officially open Hamilton's new $145-million stadium ahead of the planned Pan Am Games soccer matches there in July wasn't without a few jabs at how long the thing took to build.

Beginning Thursday and ending Sunday, the HMAs will be at the Defasco Centre for the Arts, the Irving Zucker Theatre and clubs throughout downtown Hamilton.

Police are looking for suspects after a man was punched in the face and robbed in the east end.

It’s almost June, but there’s a frost advisory for Hamilton tonight.

A Canadian man who has been charged with the drowning death of a four-year-old boy on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia will learn next week whether he will stand trial in the case.

Tim Hortons Field is open for business, nearly a year later than initial plans.

The intersection at James and Cannon Streets will be closed this weekend for repairs.

Police stopped a bicycle rider to scold him for riding on the sidewalk and ended up charging him with trafficking crack cocaine on Thursday.

Over $20,000 was raised for the city's small grants program at the Building Momentum Hamilton event at the new stadium site Thursday.

A Hamilton man’s car was “extensively damaged” and spray-painted Thursday in what police are investigating as a hate crime.

A St. Catharines man is facing numerous charges in connection with an alleged 4.1 million dollar fraud involving condominium management in Hamilton and Burlington.

Police say a Caledonia, Ont., man who disappeared in 1992 took the name of a dead boy and lived under the assumed name until his death 20 years later.

Jordyn Hastings and Olivia Smosarki died when their car crossed the median and hit an oncoming van on the Red Hill Valley Parkway. Now the city is looking at how to make the highway more safe.

Nearly 60 per cent of Hamilton workers are in some version of precarious employment, a new report says, and the share has grown since 2011.

A noise complaint escalated to a woman getting punched in the face in central Hamilton Wednesday.

The NDP have made an election pledge to not only stop, but reverse Canada Post’s plan to phase out urban door-to-door mail delivery — and they expect Canada Post to pay for it.

Burlington Street East once again made the Canadian Automobile Association’s list of the 10 worst roads in Ontario.

There are loads of underrated bands you might not have heard of who are up for Hamilton Music Awards this weekend. Here are five of the lesser-known acts hoping to take home trophies this weekend that you should definitely check out.

The city has inked a new deal with a local contractors association that will save taxpayers as much as $40 million next year – as well as see it use more local labour.

City councillors voted Wednesday to put the historic mansion on the market. But one of the bidders so far, Jeremy Freiburger, says it's been a long, weird process.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Thursday, May 21.

Late Wednesday, police arrested two men they say are responsible for the death of William McConville, a 40-year-old man who was the victim of a "serious assault" last Tuesday and died Friday from his injuries.

Two out of five people living on the streets or in homeless shelters in Hamilton said they've been attacked or beaten up since becoming homeless, a survey of 454 homeless people in the city core found last month.

There’s still a long way to go, but an icy relationship between two Hamilton bureaucracies that threatened an exciting new craft brewery appears to be thawing.

Wires duct taped to the sidewalk. Boxes put in the wrong spot, and other identical boxes put right next to them, doubling the problem. These are just some of the issues the city of Hamilton is fighting against Bell Canada, the second giant corporation the city has voted to battle this year.

Police have released a video of Sunday's Main Street East shootout as residents in one of Hamilton’s roughest lower-city wards plan a rally next week after three incidents of gun violence and assault rocked the area.

The latest death at the Barton Street Jail may end up being the sixth name added to the inquest list for drug-related deaths at the detention centre in less that four years, says the region's coroner.

A man involved in a serious crash earlier this month has died, marking the city’s 6th traffic death of the year. Police announced the Mississauga man’s death Wednesday.

Mayor Fred Eisenberger says the city should ban guns after a brazen daytime shooting in central Hamilton this week. But is that even something the city can make laws about?

A Canadian man accused in the drowning of a four-year-old boy in St. Lucia is hoping his name will soon be cleared as he makes one last bid to have the charge dismissed.

'Hack or be hacked': CBC Radio's technology columnist Jesse Hirsh explains why kids need to really know how technology works. He tells us about Kano, a tool that can help kids become sophisticated programmers.

The deal between the Canadian government and U.S. Steel that allowed the steelmaker to renege on its obligation to make steel in Canada — at plants in Hamilton and Nanticoke in Ontario — will remain a secret.

Bob Barker, former host of CBS's "The Price is Right," wants Canada's lone killer whale to be included in Ontario's proposed orca ban.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Wednesday, May 20.

UBER is coming to Hamilton, and the city is ready with an enforcement plan when it does.

Construction on a long-awaited bypass to ease Waterdown’s desperate traffic woes is expected to start this year. But one local official says he’ll believe it when he sees it.

After years of debate over powerful side effects, the use of antipsychotic medications to treat psychosis and dementia in Hamilton’s long-term care homes has dropped, according to Health Quality Ontario.

Classes and events at Mohawk’s Fennell campus will resume at 5 p.m. tonight after flooding in the C wing forced the campus to close early this morning.

The city of Hamilton and Canada Post made their arguments on CBC Radio's Metro Morning with Matt Galloway in the fight over how Hamilton gets its mail. Listen to Hamilton Coun. Terry Whitehead and Canada Post spokesperson Jon Hamilton. We ask you, who made the better case?

Several people were arrested for impaired driving in Hamilton last weekend, as police had their hands full over the Victoria Day holiday.

Hess Village bar and restaurant owners are suffering dwindling sales, and struggling to pay special paid duty policing fees, says Jason Farr. But they'll have to wait another month to see if that changes.

They say it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. That is, of course, unless someone is carrying dog-repellant.

One gunman in a brazen shootout Sunday fired into the path of passing motorists. Hamilton police are asking people who drove through central Hamilton Sunday to check their car for bullet holes – as they might be unintentionally carrying evidence with them.

An inmate died at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre Tuesday morning. Ministry of Corrections spokesperson Brent Ross confirmed the death in an email, but provided little other information.

Saltfleet High School was locked down Friday when police were called about a student with a gun – but in the end, the panic was actually caused by a misread text message.

Hamilton police have ruled out mechanical failure as the cause of a tragic crash that killed two high school friends on the Red Hill Valley Parkway earlier this month.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Tuesday, May 19.