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Officers of the Niagara Regional Police shot and killed a white arctic wolf that was on the loose since Tuesday.

A Hamilton man who was found guilty of killing his mother and step-father — Carla Rutherford and Alan Rutherford — by setting their house on fire in 2018 is appealing his conviction.

Hamilton-based spoken word artist Fareh Malik is about to release his first poetry collection, which he hopes will help people overcome negativity.

Patrick Tomchuk was granted bail at a hearing in John Sopinka Court, during which his lawyer played a video of his head being kicked and stepped on during his arrest.

Police in the Niagara region are investigating damage to a Canada Summer Games mountain bike course in St. Catharines.

As hospital departments across Ontario have been forced to shut their doors and scale back hours in recent weeks, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday that the province’s health-care system is still meeting the needs of Ontarians.

A white Arctic wolf has escaped an enclosure in Port. Colborne, police say, and is on the loose.

Members of the Black community need to embrace each other as a way to make and maintain a deeper connection to their past, a historian and longtime Hamilton resident said Monday during an Emancipation Day event.

Hamilton police are asking witnesses to come forward after seeing a video of a Hamilton man hurling transphobic and racist insults toward passengers on an HSR bus.

The Hamilton Regional Indian Centre (HRIC) is making recommendations to the Hamilton Police Service (HPS) to help address the "harm done by law enforcement agencies" against Indigenous peoples.

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs from British Columbia were in Six Nations of the Grand River near Brantford, Ont., to start an 18-day tour on Tuesday.

A 51-year-old woman has been charged with Careless Driving Causing Death in relation to a fatal collision on Upper James Street.

'Exceptionally hot and humid conditions' are expected in Hamilton on Wednesday, according to Environment Canada. Daytime temperatures could reach 31 to 33 C and with the humidity, it could feel like 42 or 43.

Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) says the man who used a racial slur in a viral road rage video a few weeks ago is no longer employed with the hospital network.

In her backyard in downtown Hamilton, Hitoko Okada is growing her own indigo plants, which she uses to create dyes in a way that originated in sixth-century Japan.

Niagara police are looking for three suspects involved in an armed robbery on Monday morning.

There's a growing chorus of opposition MPPs calling for Health Minister Sylvia Jones to show up and provide tangible solutions to what they say is a crisis facing the province's health-care system.

People in Hamilton now have the option for an outdoor COVID-19 vaccination clinic for their kids, thanks to an initiative by two local doctors, Kerry Beal and Joe Oliver.

A 37-year-old Mississauga man has died after falling into Lake Ontario on Sunday, Niagara Regional Police Service says.

Amid a prolonged pandemic, laid-off workers took stock and reassessed their priorities. Others, grappling with burnout in precarious or stressful work environments with long hours, simply walked away. So if workers are leaving their jobs, where are they going?

Parents say they're disturbed by Hockey Canada's handling of sexual assault allegations against elite players and politicians say the organization needs to do more to gain back the trust of thousands of hockey families.

Jillian Sunderland wants to embrace her Bajan roots, but her dad seems intent to hold onto the British traditions he grew up with before Barbados gained independence.

The Niagara River Lions avenged their Friday loss to the top-seeded Hamilton Honey Badgers with an 83-79 victory on Sunday afternoon, locking the 2022 Canadian Elite Basketball League playoff picture into place.

A residential school survivor is hopeful Pope Francis’s unqualified use of the word genocide to describe what happened to Indigenous Peoples forced to attend the schools marks a turning point for healing and progress.

Firefighters from Cambridge, Puslinch, Guelph, North Dumfries and Kitchener responded to the fire Saturday.

230 Ontario organizations that work with people on very limited incomes signed an open letter to the provincial government this week. They called on Premier Ford and his government to double social assistance rates when it drafts the budget next month.

Hamilton's Indigenous community and a local anti-racism group are "very concerned" about reports of a local police officer allegedly assaulting an Indigenous man during an arrest in late May.

Dr. Candace Nayman, a McMaster Children's Hospital pediatrics resident, died Thursday after collapsing in the water during a race that was part of the Toronto Triathlon Festival on Sunday, July 24.

On this week’s show: In a special edition of The House, guest host Niigaan Sinclair sits down for a conversation with his father, Murray Sinclair, to discuss what the former Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair and senator thinks about the Pope’s apology. Plus — in-depth looks into how much progress has been made on fulfilling the TRC calls to action around key issues like justice, health and education.

Hamilton has found its first mosquitos bearing West Nile virus of this year, leading the city’s medical officer of Health to increase the risk of contracting the virus from “low” to “moderate.”

Hamilton police say officers arrested a man they believe spray-painted the word "Ducer" in 16 different places in the lower city on Thursday morning.

Some 40 children in Hamilton are participating in a summer camp organized by the Afro Canadian Caribbean Association (ACCA) that's part of a broader initiative to provide programs and support for Black children.

MPs called Hockey Canada executives in front of a parliamentary committee this week and made them swear under oath to tell the truth about an explosive scandal that’s shaking the sports world. From non-disclosure agreements to Hockey Canada’s sexual abuse insurance policy — here’s what you need to know.

Carlie McMaster of Brantford, Ont., took a DNA test in 2019 and discovered she was conceived through a sperm donation. She later learned her biological relatives include a half-sister in Minnesota who wanted to connect with her.

Steven Dunbar Jr. and Don Jackson scored second-half touchdowns as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats held on for a 24-17 win over the Montreal Alouettes on Thursday night.

The Hamilton Naturalists' Club and others are calling on the city to do more to help pollinators amid news the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed monarch butterflies as an endangered species last week.

A fire at a housing development on the Hamilton Mountain caused roughly $1M worth of damage according to the city's fire chief.

There are many activities for Hamiltonians to enjoy this civic holiday long weekend. Learn more about different events and festivals, as well as what will be opened and closed on Monday.

A delegation of Haudenosaunee is disappointed with the lack of opportunity to speak with Pope Francis during the papal visit to Quebec.

Hamilton police say officers have arrested the driver of a hit and run that killed a man on the Mountain in April.

A think tank that's been compiling data on COVID-19 in Canadian long-term care homes says it has to stop its work because provinces are no longer making enough information public about the spread of the virus in the sector.

CBC's Race Against the Tide is in its second season, and former Burlington, Ont., resident Karen Fralich is again a judge this season for the unique sand sculpting competition set on a beach in the Bay of Fundy. The five-time world champion now lives in Guelph, Ont.

Lawyers who spoke with CBC News said they have seen pet custody cases involving reptiles, horses and even pot-bellied pigs.

After arriving in Quebec City, Pope Francis made a public address at the Citadelle, the fortress overlooking the plains and St. Lawrence River and bordering the old city.

Brantford police are searching for a man and woman wanted for first degree murder.

The City of Hamilton will take appointments for COVID-19 vaccines for children between the ages of six months and five years starting Thursday.

The Oxford Caribbean Canadian Association says it's "angry" and "saddened" that merchandise featuring the Confederate flag is being sold at a Route 6 Steel Horse Boutique in Port Dover, Ont.

Citing a nationwide labour shortage, several provincial immigration ministers say they want more control over the immigration process, and have sent a letter to their federal counterpart calling for change.

For residential school survivor Vivian Ketchum, the Pope’s visit has stirred up complicated feelings of what it means to forgive. She wrote this letter to her mom to process her emotions.