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For Hamilton Forge FC, a return to the Canadian Premier League title match would represent the latest reassurance that the program - built, fostered and tended to by head coach and sporting director Bobby Smyrniotis - works.

Councillors in the lower city are calling for more preventative measures amid police reporting a record-breaking number of shootings in 2024.

Launching on Nov. 7 at the W.J. McCallion Planetarium, Onekwa:tara - The Seven Dancers of the Pleiades will be the second Indigenous astronomy program available at McMaster University. Its co-creator Thomas Deer has been working to share Indigenous star knowledge for decades.

Twenty-two Canadians were set to lace it up on opening-day rosters, second only to the United States, as the 2024-25 NBA season tipped off Tuesday.

The coroner's inquest into the deaths of five Niagara Detention Centre inmates between 2018 and 2022 opened with a lawyer reading heart-wrenching stories from some of the families and the medical officer of health testifying on the high opioid death rate in the region. All five men died of drug toxicity within 10 days of being transferred to the detention centre in Thorold, Ont.

The landlord of an alleged serial killer, who is charged with murder in the October deaths of three people in southern Ontario, says she was a quiet, responsible tenant whom he never suspected was capable of violence. Sabrina Kauldhar, 30, was arrested earlier this month and charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder.

The new mural to celebrate the life of actor and comedian Phil Hartman pays tribute to his extraordinary career on Saturday Night Live, News Radio, The Simpsons and more.

Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles said her party is planning to run a candidate in Sarah Jama's Hamilton-Centre riding, but, as far as I know - and I'm the leader - it won't be her."

Thousands of international students expected to study at three Ontario colleges are missing the fall semester, after Ottawa announced it would further tighten Canada's study permit system.

It's been a season to remember and forget for Bo Levi Mitchell and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Ten years after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was gunned down while standing sentry at the National War Memorial, some of the people who rushed to his aid reflect on the tragedy and how it changed them.

A Hamilton scrap metal company has been fined $85,000 for violations of Ontario's Environmental Protection Act, the second time the company has been penalized by the province in 12 months.

AFC Toronto announced Monday that Jade Kovacevic, aformer Canadian youth international and League1 Ontario's all-time leading scorer, is their historic first signing.

The minister of mental health and addictions says the federal government will ban mostvape flavours across Canada soon - more than three years after Ottawa first promised to bring in the regulations.

Hamilton expat Amanda Hinkle says her high school teacher in Minnesota, Tim Walz, kept the class engaged and volunteered after school to help build theatre sets. Now, she's supporting his bid to become U.S. vice-president.

Leaders of Ontario's largest cities are asking for the province to urgently review its health care consent and trespass to property acts, along with more support totake on the mental health, addictions and homelessness crises gripping their communities.

What is being billed as the first Indigenous-led, on-territory hospice in Canada will bring culturally appropriate end-of-life care closer to home for those in Six Nations of the Grand River, near Hamilton.

York Regional Police have charged five teenage boys in connection with an alleged sexual assault that took place not far from Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan.

A 49-year-old man from Welland who coached minor hockey has been arrested on child porn charges, Niagara police say.

There'll be no playoff games this year for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats but head coach Scott Milanovich feels the club can get a head start on changing that narrative in 2025.

The Hamilton Police Services Board is asking the public's feedback on their new body-camera policy.

The chair of the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board (BHNCDSB) apologized Thursday for a trip he and three other trustees took to Italy this summer to buy religious art for two new schools. A day earlier, the trip earned a rebuke from the education minister.

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and 15 others are facing criminal charges for allegedly running a drug-trafficking ring that shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine to Canada and used violence -including murder -to achieve its goals, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The group is connected to homicides in Ontario, the DOJ said.

Hamilton Liberal MP Filomena Tassi has announced she won't be running for re-election, joining several federal government ministers who aren't planning to run again in the next election.

Hamilton city councillors are looking to ban encampments from seven locations in Ward 3 - including J.C. Beemer Park, the base of the Claremont Access and along the Escarpment Rail Trail - once a slew of new shelter spaces set for the area become available.

Ontario's police oversight body is investigating after Brantford police fired an anti-riot weapon at a 51-year-old man on Tuesday.

Four more federal cabinet ministers will not run for re-election, Radio-Canada has learned, meaning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will reshuffle his cabinet at a time when his leadership is increasingly fragile.

Ashima Sharma, a student in the honours philosophy program at Hamilton's McMaster University, decided to go above and beyond for just a one per cent bonus on an assignment. She found a way to catch the attention of Iceland's former prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir.

Charges of failing to comply with Ontario pandemic orders in 2021 have been dropped against a former West Lincoln mayor after Dave Bylsma's lawyer said he had donated to a local women's shelter.

A waste disposal company in Norfolk County, Ont., pleaded guilty to contravening the Occupational Health and Safety Act and agreed to pay a fine in relation to a worker's death in April 2022. In a victim impact statement, his daughter said, "I will spend the rest of my life grieving the loss of my father."

Natalia Benoit, a trustee who was barred from meetings for six months after making comments about the Pride flag, is once again trying to have it banned from schools with the Niagara Catholic District School Board in Ontario.

The Ontario government says it will introduce legislation that would require municipalities to get provincial approval before building bike lanes that reduce lanes of vehicle traffic.

Ontario taxpayers have forked over $4.3 million in legal fees after the province lost two court cases defending a wage-cap law that was struck down as unconstitutional, The Canadian Press has learned.

The City of Brantford has called on members of the public to put forward the names of local Second World War casualties who are missing from the Brant War Memorial.

A man has died after a fire broke out at a home in Thorold, Ont., police say. The incident remains under investigation.

A collision on the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway on Friday that left a 15-year-old boy dead is believed to be connected to a series of escalating incidents" between students of two Hamilton schools, police say.

The 2023/24 NHL season ended with two local NHL stars bringing the Stanley Cup back to the area for a one-day celebration. We'll take a look ahead to the 2024/25 season and see which Hamilton and area hockey players you might want to keep an eye out for this season.

Hamilton Police Service says a 15-year-old is dead and an 18-year-old has been charged following a Friday collision on the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway.

The Saturday night collision caused the pickup truck to roll and burst into flames, police say, killing all inside. Police say two others have been taken to hospital.

An inquest into the deaths of six people who died while in custody at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre, or after transfer to hospital from the jail, will begin next month. On Friday, Dr. Karen Schiff, the regional supervising coroner for Hamilton and Niagara, announced the inquest will begin Nov. 25. It is expected to last 15 days and hear from about 15 witnesses, she said in a news release.

Ontario's alcohol regulator has given notice to a restaurant in St. Catharines that its liquor licence will be suspended for several violations of the Liquor Licence and Control Act, 2019 (LLCA) and its regulations.

A Hamilton man who stabbed his 16-year-old cousin at a family barbecue in 2023 has been found guilty of second-degree murder, in a decision delivered by Ontario Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman on Friday.

"Remarkable" longtime Hamilton resident Ann Konkel passed away on Sept. 27.

An alleged serial killer travelled "on foot and public transit" from one attack to another last week in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Hamilton, according to police. Court records show Sabrina Kauldhar, 30, has been convicted of violent offences in the past.

A 52-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after a man was killed in St. Catharines on Thursday, Niagara Regional Police say.

A construction worker has been critically injured following a collision on Highway 403 in Burlington, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say.

Independent Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama says she'd be open to returning to the Ontario NDP, but the ball is in the party's court.The party is studying possible "electoral scenarios" in the Hamilton Centre riding Jama represents, including bringing the former NDP member of provincial parliament back into the fold a year after expelling her.

The upbound (southbound) lane on Beckett Drive, otherwise known as the Queen Street Access, will be closed for six weeks starting Oct. 15, the City of Hamilton has announced.

Expect some facility closures this Thanksgiving Monday in Hamilton with some services remaining open, but with limited scheduling.

Hamilton city council has given staff the green light to plan for online voting for Ward 4's public school trustee. The city clerk says whether online voting goes ahead depends on if all the work needed to put it in place can be done before the Jan. 6 byelection.