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Ontario Lottery and Gaming says a Lotto 6-49 ticket worth more than $5 million was sold in Hamilton.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Monday, June 1.

Ama deGraft-Johnson has practiced anesthesia for 33 years in Hamilton, and in September she plans to step away from the hospital work she fought so hard to get into as a young immigrant from Ghana those many years ago.

The Canadian International Military Tattoo celebrated the 100th anniversary of the poem, "In Flander's Fields," at FirstOntario Place Sunday.

Hamont Paranormal is a local group dedicated to creeping in the city’s dark corners to prove the existence of a door between the living and the dead.

Check out great new tracks from Ivory Hours, The Penske File and Stonetrotter.

Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for most of southern Ontario, including Hamilton.

Footage from a drone flying over the Canada-England soccer game Friday night was posted Saturday, giving a bird's eye view of the match.

Canada made local girl Melissa Tancredi captain on the occasion of her 100th cap Friday in a friendly against England.

Sophie Schmidt scored a highlight-reel goal midway through the first half to send Canada into the Women's World Cup on a winning note with a 1-0 victory over England in a friendly Friday.

Neighbourhood and political concerns continue two weeks after a brazen daytime shooting as police promise a summer of vigilance amid rising crime.

A public meeting held by a controversial Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, inventor to defend his Disintegrator incinerator technology turned into a shouting match and ended in disarray Thursday.

Employers are required to help workers who are dealing with a mental illness or disability. But legal experts say it's important to disclose an illness early — and sometimes to even tell an employer a little more than they strictly need to know.

Five things to do in Hamilton this weekend, May 30 and 31.

The independent journalist grabbed by Coun. Lloyd Ferguson says he wants city council to rescind what he calls a "flawed report" from the city's former integrity commissioner.

Cpl. Nathan Cirillo regularly walked his dogs at the Ancaster Meadowlands park.

A stinky flower native to Western Sumatra, Indonesia, is expected to be in full bloom in the next few days. The flower has been growing five inches per day and just passed the 6-foot mark.

The predictions for the economic benefit of light right transit were already rosy when studied five years ago. But after a five -year real estate boom, city officials think those estimates need to be revised— upwards.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco has been fined $130,000 after two workers at its Hamilton plant were injured within a week in 2012.

Ward 3 Coun. Matthew Green hosted an anti-gun and neighbourhood pride rally Thursday, a day after getting council to back his plan for a gun buyback program.

Sahab Jamshidi will stand trial for the drowning death of a four-year-old St Lucian boy, a High Court Judge on the Caribbean island ruled Thursday.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are moving up the AM dial and onto the new, all-sports TSN Radio, taking over CKOC 1150 in Hamilton.

Now that we're well into gardening season tell us what you are growing and how it's going. Join our live gardening chat on Monday at 12:30 p.m. Also listen to the call-in show with Ontario Today's Ed Lawrence. Call in by dialing 1-888-817-8995.

Ontario singer-songwriter Sarah Blackwood of Walk Off the Earth says she was kicked off a United Airlines flight in San Francisco because her toddler wouldn’t stop crying.

Police say a woman posed as a police officer and a nurse to get residents to buzz her in to an apartment building. But her second visit to the same apartment building led to her arrest.

A Dunville woman is facing fraud charges after running out on some expensive hairstyling.

City council voted unanimously to look into a program to buy back guns. A grieving mother says that helps.

One of the city’s most-heralded grassroots street transformations is about to undergo another massive overhaul. Thanks to a $1 billion light rail transit investment, James Street North will start to look completely different in 2019.

A judge grilled the attorney representing the city of Hamilton in court Wednesday, asking why, if it wanted some input on the placement of mailboxes, it didn't just give that input to Canada Post when the postal service asked for it last fall.

The OPP has dropped their investigation against Coun. Lloyd Ferguson in the matter of him grabbing a local journalist at Hamilton city hall last year.

Hazmat was called in to ArcelorMittal Dofasco today after a fire erupted on a conveyor belt, said to have traces of lime.

The city of Hamilton was found guilty of negligence for not following bylaws in maintaining a snowy sidewalk.

A record number of people are expected to be saying “up high” in Hamilton on Friday, taking part in UNICEF Canada’s #HighFiveIt campaign.

The Claremont Access will be closed Thursday between 9 a.m. and noon.

Yesterday’s announcement of provincial funding for light rail transit has many people in Hamilton buzzing, including Coun. Aidan Johnson.

A local man broke into two Dundas homes early Monday, police say – to raid the fridge and take a nap.

Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch Wednesday morning, for Hamilton and much of southern Ontario.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Wednesday, May 27.

The provincial announcement Tuesday to put $1 billion into building a light rail transit line answered a lot of questions for Hamilton. But in many ways, the work has just begun.

The landmark court case between the city of Hamilton and Canada Post began Tuesday afternoon. It's being watched around the country for its implications on other municipalities unhappy about the Crown corporation's planned changes to mail delivery.

The province is paying $1 billion to build a light rail transit system through the lower city. It will also pay to fast track the Centennial GO station. Here are answers to your questions about what Tuesday's announcement means to you.

Continuing their investigation of the May 17th shooting at Main Street E and East Avenue, police have released enhanced photos of suspects and witnesses.

After two high-profile suicides in two years, Hamilton Police Chief Glenn De Caire says he won't talk about any individual police officers who have killed themselves. But he maintains the police service is making strides to break down the barriers and stigma that prevent officers from seeking help.

A Hamilton police officer who is already serving a demotion for having sex with a prostitute has been demoted again — this time for picking up a drunk woman on duty and having sex with her.

Premier Kathleen Wynne has committed to up to $1 billion for the capital costs of light rail transit in Hamilton.

Vineyard owners in parts of southern Ontario are assessing the damage from a record-breaking plunge into cold weather that some growers say has devastated their grape crops.

Hamilton has had some dramatic proposals for tall buildings in the downtown core that would have an impact on neighbourhood character and help the city meet its growth goals. The city wants citizen input on how to deal with such proposals.

Take a ride on the B-Line to see five key places along the route and some of their implications — good and bad, depending how you look at it.

Fresh off a Hamilton Music Award win, The Dirty Nil is about to embark on a stretch of Warped Tour and is mixing a brand new, full length album.

Hamilton police are searching for a suspect after an early morning knife-point robbery left a cabbie without his cab.