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Things are almost 'back to normal,' for the third in-person Hamilton Fringe Festival since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to festivalinterim executive director Christopher Stanton. 'COVID-19 hit us really hard,' he said. 'We weren't sure if we were going to come back.' The festival ends this Sunday.

When Cyprin Ontitacame to Canada from Kenya, he said he was 'in the dark' about what life would be like as an asylum seeker.He had to sleep outside in Toronto before someone suggested he would find space in Hamilton. He's now one of many in the city's shelter system.

The union alleges the company is withholding workers' vacation pay. Over 1,450 workers have been on off the job since June 29.

The heat wave that has baked Hamilton and surrounding areas is set to end Saturday, but not before one final scorcher, according to Environment Canada.

It's the first batch of mosquitos to be found carrying the virus this year, says the city. It's advising residents to take precautions to prevent bites.

July might be ending, but there are plenty of fun summer festivities to enjoy this weekend. From watching Hamiltonians act out their own stories at Fringe Fest to busting a move at the bayfront, here's what's on.

The 26 complaints, obtained by CBC Hamilton through a freedom of information request, ranged from issues about long waits and confusion about what can be brought onto a plane, to more serious complaints about pat downs and a knife getting past security.

Summer brings the opportunity more strolls and hikes, and more time on bikes - in some cases, on streets without cars.

London police have laid hundreds of charges and seized multiple firearms during an extensive operation that included assistance from the OPP, police services in Hamilton and Sudbury, along with other government agencies.

After being in paramedicine for half a century, Michael Sanderson said he never saw a year for paramedics like 2022.

For Alison Myrden, who lives with multiple sclerosis, the early July police bust at Hamilton's Mushroom Cabinet meant a massive and nearly immediate deterioration in her quality of life.

Speakers from groups such as the Hamilton Transit Riders' Union and the Amalgamated Transit Union came together before a cityLRT subcommitteemeetingto make their case against the privatization of Hamilton's new LRT system.

A 77-year-old man is dead after being hit by a driver while crossing Fennell Avenue East on the Hamilton Mountain.

National Steel Car has been fined$140,000 two years after one of its workers died on the job.

Hamilton's mayor is asking the federal government for roughly $9 million to address an "alarming rise" of refugee and asylum seekers ending up in the shelter system or living on the streets.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Hamilton woman Emily Bailey are asking the city's police board to authorize a $20,000 reward for 'information leading to the location of Emily Bailey's remains and conviction to those responsible for her disappearance.'

A mother and her teen son have been chargedaftera string of commercialbreak and enters in the Niagara region, police say.

Socks Off campaign launches in Hamilton with a goal to reduce the number of residents who lose a foot to amputation due to diabetes.

Naudle Oshoweetok was 10 years old when he left his home in Kinngait, Nunavut, and boarded the C.D. Howe Arctic Patrol ship. "I didn't know where we were going," he says. Oshoweetok ended up in Hamilton for tuberculosis treatment, and has returned, 65 years later.

Heat warnings across Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Burlington and Brantford are expected to last until Friday.

July 28 will mark 18 years since a newborn baby was found dead beside a Brantford, Ont., street.

The federal Conservatives say Canadians angry over Paul Bernardo's move to a medium-security prison have a Liberal government law to blame.

Jennifer Timmins often finds herself breaking up fights and managing students with aggressive behaviour, subjecting herself to violence that nearly any other worker would find unconscionable - and she wants it to stop.

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the province is now starting three programs aimed at bolstering staffing in the health-care sector.

After many years working in Canada's wine industry, Steve Byfield says he's never met another Black winemaker. Here's what he has to say about making wine in Canada.

A new study finds that kids who don't have access to affordable, healthy food could end up needing medical care more often for mental health and substance use issues.

CBC Toronto reviewed Ontario Court of Justice statistics which show the number of careless driving charges laid both across the province and in Toronto specifically have gone down in recent years and the percentage of those charges withdrawn before trial has skyrocketed.

A hundred years ago, Gayogohon (Cayuga) chief Deskaheh travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, to raise human rights violations at an international level.

Rich Lieberman went on a two-day road trip with his 15-year-old deaf and legally blind son, Jacob, to stock up on Jacob's favourite chips.

Areport from the the Correctional Service of Canadaoffers new details of Paul Bernardo's life behind bars - and what led to the controversial decision to transfer one of Canada's most infamous killers to a medium-security prison.

Over a dozen Inuit elders are making a historic healing journey to Hamilton this weekend to revisit the former sanatorium site where they were held in isolation and endured psychological abuse in the 1950s and '60s.

Daelon Smith is a 18-year-old basketball player from Six Nations of the Grand River. He's one of the nearly 50 athletes from the region taking part in the 10th North American Indigenous Games.

An initiativethat would have seen producers of non-alcoholic beverages like soda pay recycling fees in Ontario has been paused, with the organization set to run it citing the province's recent move to explore a different system for recovering cans and bottles.

Niagara police located the car involved in the hit-and-run last Thursday, but are still looking for a suspect.

Taylor Powell will make his first CFL start Friday night when Hamilton (2-3) hosts the archrival Toronto Argonauts (4-0).

From food festivals to a tour through the city's dark history. Here's what to do this weekend in Hamilton.

CBC Hamilton heard from Ameil Joseph, an associate professor in the school of social work at McMaster University, and Gessie Stearns, a homelessness researcher - both of whom have concerns with Hamilton's approach to encampments.

A Canadian-born doctor who hasbeen in a protracted battle with medical licensing authoritieshas finally received the documents she needs to practise medicine in Canada.

Ontario employers have failed to pay out $9 million in wages owed to workers in the 2021-22 fiscal year, provincial data suggests. Though governments say they're introducing measures to counter the problem, advocates are concerned the exploitative practice of not paying employees has become the norm.

The City of Hamilton will pay nearly $3 million in fines and damages for allowing24 billion litres of sewage and stormwater to spill into Chedoke Creek.

According to the industry group Go RVing Canada, there are more than two million recreation vehicles on the road in this country, and approximately 15 per cent of Canadian households own some type of RV.

A review committee has concludedthere was nothing stopping the Correctional Service of Canada from giving victims' families advance warning of the prison transfer of serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo.

A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect forHamilton, Niagara and surrounding areas Thursday afternoon, according to Environment Canada.

A 46-year-old man is dead after a single-vehicle collision in Hamilton.

Niagara's new "wind phone," an old-school rotary handset mounted amid trees at Ball's Falls Conservation Area, is a place for grieving people to feel connection with their deceased loved ones.

Jason Kloss will swim 51 km across Lake Ontario between Aug. 11 and Aug. 12, hoping to raise $50K for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

While the Not In My Backyard phenomenon existed long before the current housing shortage in Canada became pronounced, experts say counteracting it is more important now than ever before

Firefighters arrived at the Hess Street Southnightclub and restaurant to find heavy smoke and fire had already engulfed the three-storey building.

Canadian flyweight Jasmine Jasudavicius will face American Tracy Cortez on a UFC Fight Night card in September in Las Vegas.

After more than a decade of planning, the construction of a new South Niagara hospital has started.