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Cities across the country will be watching Tuesday as Canada Post faces off in a Hamilton courtroom against the city over where it can put super mailboxes.

Hamilton Health Sciences is about to shut down local hospital food operations and bring in meals prepared out of town, CUPE says.

Home sales in Hamilton will decline this year and into 2016, according to a new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

After months of uncertainty, an announcement on rapid transit funding is finally happening in Hamilton Tuesday morning. Plenty of questions still remain about the announcement, though. Here are five key issues that need answers.

A provincial announcement on public transit is happening in Hamilton Tuesday morning, according to both local and provincial sources. But it will not be for the full line originally proposed.

The dynamic guitarist was posthumously presented with a lifetime achievement award, and also won the guitarist of the year award at Saturday night’s industry awards.

Police stopped a man riding a bike on the sidewalk on Saturday night and discovered he was on the run from break-and-enter warrants in another city, according to Hamilton Police.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Monday, May 25.

John Kearns, the controversial inventor who says he's been barred from Six Nations with threats of violence, will be in Brantford Ont., Thursday for a no holds barred discussion on his deal to sell a garbage solution to the reserve.

Bankruptcy court filings show a past president of Stelco says U.S. Steel never gave the Canadian operations a chance and is playing shell games to recover its acquisition costs ahead of pensioners.

An HSR bus was one of three vehicles involved in a collision at James and Main Streets Sunday morning.

The 11th annual HMA Industry Awards took place Saturday night at the Dofasco Centre for the Arts. There were plenty of awards to go around. Here's a list of the winners in case you missed out.

Crowds in what was once the city’s sole nightlife entertainment destination have been shrinking for years, with some estimating they’re down by more than half. So how did we get to this point, and what needs to be done to get people back in Hess Village?

Check out great new music from Aron D’Alesio, Cody Allen and Glass Face.

Road work season is officially in full swing, and for part of Concession Street, it is going to last the whole summer.

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.