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If you bought a salad bowl for lunch in a compostable container, that greener choice may have come with a dash of “forever chemicals” called PFAS, a new study finds. Should you worry? Here’s a closer look.

Leaders of five First Nations who are pushing for their voices to be heard when it comes to proposed mining projects walked out of the Ontario Legislature on Wednesday after a heated exchange during question period.

With the new budget, the city's housing budget increases by 30 per cent from 2022 to $70.1 million. Council also passed the controversial police budget, with no further debate of it, in a final vote of 10-5.

The plan to remove 600 metres of the steel wall along the Mountain road is expected to begin in May and should take about three months, the city said Wednesday, after inspection found urgent erosion and slope stability concern.

The new Metrolinx hourly bus service from Waterloo to Hamilton, with stops in Kitchener and Guelph, will fill transit gaps between the four cities, advocates say. But they also say next steps should focus on express buses between the cities.

Environment Canada had issued a weather advisory for Hamilton, the Niagara region, and Haldimand and Norfolk counties, calling for a "burst of heavy, wet snow" Wednesday afternoon.

Ward 7 Coun. Esther Pauls acknowledged she was 'unknowingly' in a conflict of interest and won't vote on police budget in the future.

Hamilton's John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport is now offering a new flight straight from Steeltown to Amsterdam.

The budget addresses a range of issues that some councillors previously told CBC Hamilton have been neglected by previous councils like housing and homelessness, climate change adaptation, cycling infrastructure and affordable housing.

At least 22 people experiencing homelessness died in Hamilton in the second half of last year, nearly double the number from the previous six months. All of them were men.

The City of Hamilton is asking for feedback on the 2022 municipal election from eligible voters, five months after a voting process that saw complaints related to mail-in ballots, delays at polling stations and campaign tactics.

A group of McMaster University students have ended an eight-day hunger strike, but have vowed to intensify their efforts to get the university in Hamilton to reverse its decision to install four natural gas-powered generators on Cootes Drive.

The surge in revenues flowing into Ontario government coffers — at a time when municipal budgets are stretched thin — is reigniting debate over how cities fund their services.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is expected to deliver a budget Tuesday that will offer limited cost-of-living relief to the vulnerable and promote green investments as uncertainty continues to cloud the economic horizon.

Hamilton police are struggling to attract recruits amid officer deaths nationwide, low morale and what they describe as hefty workloads. But some still want to join and Hamilton police say they've been able to hire more diverse candidates.

A new study from McMaster University and Muslim Advisory Council of Canada says there are 'obvious gaps' in research about the discrimination Muslim patients face in Canadian health-care settings.

A Hamilton couple has narrowly avoided deportation to Colombia after a week-long ordeal that started with their unexpected arrest, separation from their three daughters, including one with disabilities, and detention.

A truck driver has pleaded guilty to careless driving causing the death of 65-year-old animal rights activist Regan Russell.

McMaster University should negotiate with the group of students on hunger strike before any long-term effects from the strike are felt, a Toronto-based nutritional sciences professor says. The strike has now been underway for a week.

A man, 38, has been arrested in connection with Hamilton's first homicide of the year, according to police.

The long-awaited repairs to pipes at 1083 Main St. E. in Hamilton began last week. While the water is icy cold, with the hot water not yet connected, tenants say it's proof of what they've been insisting since late December — the work could be done in a matter of days without anyone having to move out.

Starting April 8, GO Transit is adding a new line between Hamilton and Waterloo as well as expanding and changing various routes.

The federal budget, set for Tuesday, will include a grocery rebate measure aimed at lower income Canadians to help address the affordability crisis, particularly to mitigate the rising cost of food, CBC has learned.

A union representing workers in sectors across the economy has started a campaign to ensure members know their rights when it comes to employers using software that tracks them at work.

The 129th annual Around the Bay Race took place in Hamilton on Sunday, with 5,860 participants. It raised over $350,000 for St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation.

A shooting in east Hamilton on Friday has left a 53-year-old man dead, police said. They also found another man in separate location with a gunshot wound. Police say they are now investigating if the two incidents are connected.

A report released Thursday by the advocacy group Health Network for Uninsured Clients found that the program improved health outcomes and reduced financial hardship for Ontario residents without insurance. Despite this, the province confirmed it’s winding it down.

This month has been a good one for aurora photographers, and Thursday night featured auroras as far south as New Mexico. So what’s behind the latest light shows, and can we expect more?

The province's screen sector is reporting its strongest ever year last year with Ontario hitting record-high levels of film and television productions.

Iethiiehiá:rons is Kanien’kéha for ‘we raise them’ and the name of a language project that supports parents raising their children as first language speakers. There are four families who just completed the first year of this pilot program.

On a typical night volunteering for a street patrol in Regina, Nicki Clarke met a stranger who reminded her of her dead sister.

An alleged kidnapping, duped investors and losses topping $40 million — those are some of the newest details emerging as authorities try to unravel what Canada's self-proclaimed Crypto King did with the money investors gave him.

Cellphone and security video seemingly show the moments when a customer attacked an esthetician in Hamilton after she was allegedly unsatisfied with her new eyelash extensions. The business owner and worker say Hamilton police's response has been underwhelming.

Ontario's so-called sunshine list is out and the three top paid public employees in the province are all at Ontario Power Generation.

Ontario has reached a funding agreement with optometrists that increases some payments to them and changes eligibility for some assessments, including less frequent general eye exams for seniors.

Hamilton is poised to see a new cast of baby peregrine falcons this year as two brown eggs have been spotted atop the Sheraton Hotel.

The emergency and community services committee met on Thursday to discuss Hamilton's shelter and affordable housing crisis. The council considered declaring a state of emergency but the decision was stayed until April 6.

Hamilton, Burlington, Niagara and surrounding areas could see freezing rain and strong winds on Saturday, according to Environment Canada.

U.S. President Joe Biden is in Ottawa today for an official visit — a whirlwind trip that will include an address to Parliament, a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other high-level officials and a gala dinner at the city's Aviation Museum.

Marketplace found two examples of menstrual pain medication costing more than their general pain relief counterparts at Shoppers Drug Mart, which said it will align the prices “within a week.”

Hamilton police are investigating a string of eight church break and enters, the most recent of which happened early morning on Tuesday.

Surging revenues will help Ontario get back to black years earlier than previously projected, the province said in its 2023 budget — a fiscal outlook that includes historically high spending and tax relief for businesses but little in the way of new affordability measures for individuals.

A hunger strike started by a group of McMaster University students on Monday is taking a toll on their bodies, but they are determined to continue until the university takes action, a member of the group said Thursday.

Low-cost airline Lynx Air is offering flights between Hamilton and Vancouver for the summer season.

Mayor Jim Diodati, said he expected to have a call with the deputy minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship on Thursday and would make the request to cap the number of hotel rooms used to house asylum seekers.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have stabilized, with older residents continuing to be more impacted by the virus than the general population, says the city's public health department.

We can breathe a little easier around the Great Lakes and likely across Canada, suggests new research, as several toxic insecticides have finally disappeared from the air around the Lakes decades after they were banned in this country and phased out in the United States. Unfortunately, pesticides like DDT still linger in cities.

Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy has said now is the time for fiscal "restraint" after several years of big spending and high-deficit budgets during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Andrea Pardo Rodriguez, Nelson Martinez Mora and their daughters were jolted awake Sunday morning by loud banging at their Hamilton apartment's front door. The parents were arrested and brought to an immigration detention centre, and now face deportation to Colombia in the coming days.

Heather George, the new executive director at Woodland Cultural Centre, says she wants to build on the work of her predecessors and integrate more Indigenous language into the centre's work.