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Preliminary testing has confirmed the presence of H5 avian influenza on a second Ontario farm, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.

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: Megan Landry, April Verch and Lee Harvey Osmond.

Six months after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was shot while standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, his regiment in Hamilton opened its armoury to thank the public for its support in the aftermath of the reservist's death.

​Ben Street had two goals and an assist as the Lake Erie Monsters doubled up the Hamilton Bulldogs 6-3 on Friday in American Hockey League action.

Saturday may well be the last American Hockey League game in Hamilton. We look back at 19 years of AHL hockey in the city

The provincial government announced billions in new funding for GO Transit service on Friday, and said some $16 billion is now ready to spend on transportation infrastructure in the GTA and Hamilton.

A Jaguar and several snowmobiles were among the stolen goods recovered

The trail has gone cold for investigators examining the badly decomposed body found in Stoney Creek on Easter Sunday.

The Supreme Court of Canada's landmark end-of-life ruling played a role in helping a Hamilton man charged with assisting suicide avoid jail time, his lawyer said.

Cathy Cirillo and her son Nathan's regiment, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, are inviting Hamiltonians to the armoury for an honours parade Saturday, six months after his death at the National War Memorial.

Hamilton student Mitchel Bonaccorso has been suspended from school for 10 days for a series of online videos he posted last summer - even though the videos have nothing to do with his school and weren’t filmed on school property.

Police have arrested four Hamilton men this week and charged them with possessing and accessing child pornography.

The Hamilton-Burlington housing market equaled Toronto for the largest house price increases over the first quarter of 2015 according to realtor group Re/Max.

Doctors have tried to wean Brad Clark’s son off painkillers despite his devastating shotgun injuries in an effort to wake him up, but so far he has not regained consciousness.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Friday, April 17.

Hamilton electricity users will become the centre of a political debate next month as a city councillor tries to stop the merger of Horizon Utilities with three other companies.

Reem Sheet and Eyrie Clark, grade 11 students from Orchard Park High School, were some of those recognized for their volunteer efforts with Volunteer Hamilton, at the 17th Annual Community Builders Breakfast on Thursday.

It’s a milestone 10 months in the making – at long last, the city has issued an occupancy permit for Tim Horton’s Field.

The Canadian teacher serving a ten-year prison sentence in Indonesian on child-abuse convictions says the federal government has done little to protect him from what he calls an abuse of his human rights.

Hamilton police say they were called to the Hamilton central library, Wednesday night, after a man was said to be causing a disturbance, including challenging guests to a fight.

It’s been less than 24 hours, and already the city of Hamilton is looking at charging Canada Post under a new law that dictates where the corporation can install super mailboxes.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats were the lone team to exceed the CFL's $5-million salary cap last season. The league announced Thursday the Ticats finished $8,939 over the cap, earning them a $8,939 fine, or $1 for each dollar they were over. Hamilton was the lone team to go over the cap last year.

Police and ambulance are at St. Jean de Brébeuf for an apparent stabbing in the downstairs hallway, says one student.

The band answered life's important questions: like why their name doesn't have a "the" in front of it and what it's like to meet Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.

A judge has ruled the city owes $8 million to a boy who was hit by a car at a crosswalk 13 years ago when a crossing guard left work early.

Members of the ATU 107 voted 86% in favour of the new deal which amounts to a 7 per cent pay increase over the four years of the deal.

This is your brain on whisky: its sluggish, predictable, non-chaotic, and neurochemical messages never reach their intended targets. Your brain on whisky, and all alcohol for that matter, is linear.

The son of former city councillor Brad Clark was taken out of a medically-induced coma earlier this week as doctors worked to repair the damage caused by a shotgun blast at close range — but he still hasn't woken up since his third surgery.

A veteran Hamilton police officer and his lawyer are reviewing 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 Thursday, April 16.

There's a danger that lurks in the night that might be worse than a nightmare. Sleep deprivation is a problem experts say has reached epidemic proportions, with often devastating effects for children of all ages. Katherine Ashenburg wrote about this for The Walrus Magazine. Listen here.

The national women's hockey program is bringing more than 100 promising young players to the city for a development camp next month, including the latest member of Hamilton's Nurse family poised to enter the national sporting stage.

The provincial Ministry of the Environment has released its annual air quality report for 2013, and though there are some improvements, Hamilton’s air quality is still among the worst in the province in some categories.

Hamilton city councillors want the province to give extra scrutiny to a proposed gasification plant to make sure the project won’t cause health or environmental damage to the city’s residents.

The news of CanJet layoffs should temper the aspirations of NewLeaf Travel Co., an "ultra-low-cost carrier" that wants to be Canada's answer to Ryanair and Easyjet in Europe, says a McMaster business analyst.

Charmini Peli Kankanamalage is terrified she stole her son's connection to his homeland of Sri Lanka - and that guilt inspired her new docudrama short called "M'al d'archive."

Police in Burlington say an armed robbery reported at a city bakery never actually happened.

Police arrested a 26-year-old man Tuesday and charged him with three counts of robbery and breaking probation linked to three pharmacy robberies in March and April.

Hamilton city council wants to charge Canada Post for installing super mailboxes and control where they are located. Canada Post says it can do what it wants to when it comes to mailboxes.

The kingpin of what has been called Canada's largest human trafficking ring was deported to Hungary on April 10, the Canada Border Services Agency announced Tuesday.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Wednesday, April 15.

An Ontario businessman with a career in airlines and hotels says he hopes his ultra-low-cost airline, NewLeaf Travel Co., will have its eastern stop in Hamilton.

As council prepares to put fight Canada Post over the installation of super mailboxes, a Mountain resident who's lived with one for years vents his frustration over the experience.

Researchers are looking to some of nature's tiniest creatures for hints on combating superbugs, bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotics scientists have found so far. And the Canadian government announced Monday it's investing $1.5 million in furthering their exploration.

City officials have told the stadium builders to redo part of their work on the east stands, adding a fresh delay to the troubled project.

Hamilton police are looking for a suspect in the latest in a series of pharmacy robberies. A Friday afternoon robbery made 13 so far in 2015, nearly double the seven pharmacy robberies in all of last year.

As of April 15, if you have any fuel-burning appliances, a fireplace or an attached garage, you must have a carbon monoxide alarm in your home. The new law was named after an OPP officer who died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Two suspects crashed an orange Kia Rio into Peoples Jewellers on Barton Street East on Tuesday.

Hamilton police are combing the computer and other belongings of a 25-year-old man who opened fire in a Queenston Road apartment Sunday, leaving four people injured, looking for clues as to what led to the tragic attack.

Here's your Hamilton news, weather, and traffic for Tuesday, April 14.