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Hamilton police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the death of 19-year-old Harmanjit Singh, a Mohawk College graduate whose remains were found floating in a flood basin in Stoney Creek in late November.

A Hamilton man attempted to scam the wrong person when he asked an off-duty cop to donate to a fake charity, police say.

A Hamilton man, apparently on holiday in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, has been arrested after the drowning death of a four-year-old boy, according to local police.

Eleven Canadian transgender people tell their stories in Doc Zone feature airing Thursday on CBC-TV.

We’re down to the final four in CBC Hamilton’s best Hamilton song competition, and it’s time to pick our last band before the finals – It’s rock titans Junkhouse versus hip-hop fusion act Warsawpack.

A Hamilton councillor will push to establish designated tobogganing areas when city council meets on Wednesday.

Here's your news, weather and traffic for Wednesday, Feb. 25.

The trial for Dellen Millard and Mark Smich was scheduled to begin in September, but after this week's meeting the trial has been postponed to January 11, 2016.

Police began reopening lanes on the Queen Elizabeth Way in Burlington after a transformer fire caused the major highway to close for several hours during Wednesday's commute.

Hamilton’s integrity commissioner has found that an Ancaster councillor violated the city’s code of conduct when he grabbed a local journalist after a long day of contentious meetings.

A Hamilton Mountain school was locked down on Tuesday after a student as suspected of having a firearm.

Police are looking for two suspects after a Hamilton taxi driver was robbed at knifepoint this week.

It will likely be mid-April before the city will get its hands on the new Tim Horton’s Field stadium.

Flamborough is gearing up for a fight on Wednesday when a lower-city councillor tries to eliminate area rating for transit.

Police are asking for the public’s help to identify two teenagers suspected of mugging a woman who was walking her dog in Beemer Park.

A Hamilton councillor wants reassurance about Hamilton's safety during the 2015 Pan Am Games in Hamilton after a mystery tunnel was found near a venue in Toronto.

Hamilton broke a 134-year-old cold temperature record on Tuesday morning, set way back in 1881. Tuesday’s low was –24.8 C, set around 1 a.m. at the Hamilton airport. The previous record was –23.3 C, which was set at a lower city weather station.

Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard will pull double duty as host and performer in the 2015 Juno awards in Hamilton next month, organizers announced Tuesday.

The Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games will kick off with a 41-day torch relay that will cross the whole country and bring the celebration to more than 180 communities, organizers have announced.

Here's your news, weather and traffic for Tuesday, Feb 24.

Toronto police say they don’t know who built a mysterious tunnel near York University and a venue for this summer's Pan Am Games, or what may have been the motivation for it, but they are seeking the public's help in trying to determine the answers.

The judge in the case of two men accused of killing Tim Bosma is conducting pretrial hearings behind closed doors.

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 this week. Up this week: Great Lake Swimmers, Jon Lawless and West Nile.

We’re down to the final four in CBC Hamilton’s best Hamilton song competition, and it’s time for two heavyweights to slug it out – a classic rock staple from Crowbar versus Rita Chiarelli’s stunning blues.

A new report on cloud storage prepared for Google by a Hamilton-based risk advisor shows that businesses and individuals need to take a global approach to keeping data safe.

A Hamilton teenager is in custody after exposing himself to a woman on a city bus.

Hamilton police are trying to figure out what caused a vehicle rollover in Stoney Creek early Sunday morning that sent a man to hospital and injured his two passengers.

Here's your news, weather and traffic for Monday, Feb. 23.

Hamilton shattered a decades-old cold weather record on Monday, as temperatures plummeted below –23 C with a wind chill of –31 C.

In the winter that will never end, another batch of arctic air will sweep through Hamilton and Southern Ontario Sunday night, with temperatures that could dip to -40 C overnight.

Ward 3 public school board trustee Larry Pattison is calling on the board to reverse its decision to shutter Mountain high school, to save the programming and small class sizes the special needs school provides now.

Students will learn about the benefits and potential dangers of online activity in Grade 1 and about "sexting" in Grade 4 under Ontario's revised sex education curriculum, which will be released Monday.

Award-winning dancer and instructor has been teaching a routine based on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Selma to Montgomery marches.

The 87th annual Academy Awards, the biggest, glitziest and most-coveted movie industry awards are being handed out tonight in Hollywood. Here's what you need to know.

In touting Canada's anti-terrorism act, Bill C-51, to a counter-terrorism summit hosted by the White House, Hamilton found itself in the spotlight for all the right reasons.

Police are advising drivers to slow down as today's snowfall has caused dozens of accidents throughout the Greater Toronto Area, including a six-vehicle collision in Burlington.

As part of Black History Month, CBC Hamilton asked two black Hamilton musicians from two very different backgrounds to explain why black music is important in their own words.

Ontario's Liberal government will release details of the province's new sex education curriculum on Monday, The Canadian Press has learned.

It’s a partially fulfilled wish list for Hamilton's public school board. It gets one new elementary school in Flamborough, but as for the second, it will have to make due with renovations.

Lake Land Meats and Farm Market is recalling smoked trout and smoked arctic char from stores because of the potential presence of dangerous bacteria.

Guelph police have charged a 46-year-old Hamilton man with attempted murder following an investigation.

A veteran Hamilton police officer was arrested Friday and charged with theft and obstructing justice in what police are calling an "on-duty incident."

A Hamilton woman was arrested Thursday in a bizarre scam that included a fake pregnant daughter and a fictional pizza day, police say.

At least two Hamilton councillors are calling on the province to intervene after the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) voted Thursday to take nearly $700,000 more per year from city taxpayers.

Some remarkable drone video has captured ice boulders forming and growing at the foot of Niagara Falls.

It’s time to choose who should move on to the next round of CBC Hamilton’s best Hamilton song competition, and two beloved groups are facing off – Junkhouse and The Forgotten Rebels.

Here's your news, weather and traffic for Friday, Feb. 20.

Furious residents of two downtown apartment towers voiced their outrage Thursday night about the deteriorating conditions of their buildings and the property management company they claim is trying to force them out.

Public health staff is setting up a new program to provide dental care to low-income seniors that it hopes to roll out in January 2016.

The message from Hamilton’s French Catholic school board leaders is clear: we want our own new high school.