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Volunteer firefighters use a green light to indicate they're trying to get to the scene of a fire, but not everyone knows what it means.

An event held at McMaster Saturday and Sunday was called "deltaHacks," invoking the mathematical definition of "delta" as "change." The 300 or so college programmers and designers who participated in the 24-hour intense, project-based event were coming up with projects to "hack for change."

The dramatic video of a Hamilton cab driver being robbed by three women with a knife and a hammer has brought driver safety back to the forefront.

Results are in from the first round of CBC Hamilton’s best Hamilton song competition. See who won, who lost and vote in the second round starting Tuesday.

Cold temperatures and gusty winds led to Environment Canada issuing an extreme cold warning for Sunday and Monday.

The Hamilton Tool Library wanted to build 250 accessibility ramps to specifications by business owners around town, but only 12 signed up. Some felt too nervous to sign up for one of the ramps, the library said, which the library was offering to build to custom specifications for $25.

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: Ivory Hours, Sea Perry and Dave Rave and the Governors.

Three new cases of measles have been confirmed in Ontario, health officials said Saturday.

Popular story-telling series Raconteurs is coming to Hamilton for an event on Wednesday that will be taped for a pilot for CBC Radio.

A 66-year-old man is facing charges that he unlawfully used military uniforms and medals when attending oath ceremonies held by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

The Pan Am Art Explosion will feature four massive "exploded" soccer balls made of aluminum plates that will be mounted on a pedestal and displayed on sidewalks in the downtown area.

It’s a long weekend in Hamilton, but it’ll be a bitterly cold one as well, Environment Canada says.

The CFL released its 2015 schedule on Friday, and what was expected to be a messy timetable because of the Pan American Games and the FIFA Women's World Cup still delivered some surprises.

It takes nearly twice the amount of time to get an ambulance in Flamborough as it does in the lower city. But the solution for how to fix it could lead to a political standoff on city council.

About 25 protesters gathered in the bitter cold near Gage Park Friday to protest Canada’s missing and murdered aboriginal women as part of a national day of action.

Hamilton Police have released footage from a security camera following a robbery at a Hamilton variety store.

Here are some events in Hamilton to keep you and your family busy this long weekend.

Environment Canada announced Friday that work on its massive Randle Reef cleanup project is set to start this year, with a scaled back- but affordable- plan.

Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman will hear the verdict in his child sex assault case on April 2, the judges in his Indonesian trial said on Friday.

It’s time for the last battle in the first round of CBC Hamilton’s best Hamilton song competition, and it’s a big one – renowned producer and musician Daniel Lanois versus local punk icons The Forgotten Rebels.

Time is running out for one lucky winner of half a million dollars — OLG announced a ticket for $500,000 has gone unclaimed.

Here's your news, weather and traffic for Friday, Feb. 13.

Making sense of millenials will be crucial for businesses and cities like Hamilton, an economic development conference heard on Thursday, but how do you do it?

The extreme cold weather has broken a record for Hamilton. At -25 C, this temperature is nearly a full five degrees lower than the previous record set in 1968.

'Not only am I black, I’m a Hamiltonian. I’m a Canadian. I’m a woman. I’m so many other things that I identify myself as,' says Alexandria Montague, a young activist in the city.

The McMaster graduate entered the contest Global Degree, offering an all-expenses paid trip around the world and needs some support from her hometown.

Provincial police said an Ancaster woman was killed earlier this week when the car her husband was driving slammed into the back of a transport truck on Highway 401.

Hamilton’s municipal heritage committee has an emphatic message to local politicians: don’t demolish the Jimmy Thompson Pool.

Paul Manning has been charged with threatening bodily harm and the unsafe storage of a firearm. He was arrested Thursday after allegedly sending a threatening email.

A Hamilton landlord has been convicted of running an illegal lodging house after he had nine tenants living in a single-family home.

In the past year, rat complaints to the city have more than doubled. The city is pointing the finger towards construction as the main cause, but thinks it's not that are more rats, just more people are noticing them.

Cold-call tactics are picking up in certain neighbourhoods as Hamilton homebuyers try to find their dream house, even if it's not yet on the market.

Hamilton Police's K-9 unit and the OPP could not catch a man who fled into the forest off of Highway 6 during a traffic stop for a lead foot.

Here's your news, weather and traffic for Thursday, Feb. 12.

Hamilton is known as being a city that kills too many cats, one councillor says. But it’s just taken its first step toward changing that.

CBC Hamilton’s best Hamilton song competition is back with another hard choice — should iconic Hamilton rock band Junkhouse move on to the next round, or should innovative electronic artist Jessy Lanza? You decide.

The city has agreed to debt finance nearly a million dollars to help Hamilton Police build a new investigative services building downtown.

The Ministry of the Environment says its too early to say if ArcelorMittal Dofasco is to blame for the black grit that fell from the sky onto a north Hamilton neighbourhood on Monday but that environmental charges are rarely laid in similar fallout incidents.

Hamilton Police have released video of three women robbing a cab driver. The women are shown pulling a knife and a hammer on the driver. Hamilton police are asking for the public's help in identifying the women.

Hamilton will see 13,000 new jobs over the next two years, shows a new report from the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.

Hamilton MMA fighter Josh Hill takes on Bantamweight champion Marlon Moraes on Thursday.

An autographed flight suit and diecast model from Hamilton's Lancaster warplane tour last summer went up for auction on Ebay Wednesday.

Public health officials have issued a cold weather alert for Hamilton for Thursday morning.

Gabriel Dumont scored twice to lead the Hamilton Bulldogs to a 2-1 victory over the Iowa Wild in American Hockey League action on Tuesday.