New evacuations ordered because of Florence flooding

Boybands have been a staple in the pop music business since The Beatles hit Ed Sullivan’s stage. We’ve seen them come and go ever since — The Monkees, The Jackson 5, New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, One Direction.

A quarter of people living in long-term care homes in British Columbia are receiving antipsychotic medication without a supporting diagnosis even though they have lower rates of psychiatric and mood disorders compared with their counterparts elsewhere in Canada, says the province’s advocate for seniors.

It took days of preparation to set up for the K-pop superstars’ Hamilton shows

The Issue: Routes internal governance review results in new board structureThe Impact: Restructuring will help staff to focus on providing services to youth

City police have charged a local man after a domestic incident early Thursday morning.

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A dispute between two men at an apartment building on Aylmer Street N. Thursday night has led to the arrest of a local man.

Government to provide snapshot of Ontario finances in speech this morning

Government to provide snapshot of Ontario finances in speech this morning

NewsAlert: Statistics Canada says consumer price index up 2.8% from year ago

Here's a list of August inflation rates for selected Canadian cities

Mobster Daniele Ranieri, 33, from Bolton, has been confirmed dead by the RCMP.

Here's a list August inflation rates for Canadian provinces, territories

Large fire at auto scrapyard in Mississauga, Ont., contained

Climbing 2,000 steps and hiking 20 km may not be on your to do list, but perhaps it should.

Kavanaugh's accuser says she would testify under right terms

Officials: 3 killed in shooting at Maryland Rite Aid centre

Philippine villages at risk of landslides forcibly evacuated

On the January morning in 2015 when he turned himself in to police in West Hollywood for his role in a deadly hit-and-run, gangster rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was oozing Teflon confidence.

Timothy Caughman described himself on Twitter as a can and bottle recycler, an autograph collector, and a good businessperson. The 66-year-old had a knack for spotting celebrities on the streets of New York, and managed to get stars like Oprah and Wyclef Jean to pose with him in selfies. He wrote positive messages to his favourite performers, often just to tell them that he hoped they would have a good day. On Nov. 8, 2016, he posted a picture of himself standing in line to vote, dressed in a thick brown sweater and a baseball hat.

First lady Melania Trump's top spokesperson broke a long-standing federal law by issuing a pro-Trump message from her official Twitter account earlier this year, investigators announced Thursday.

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"I think it was a slap in the face not only to Hamilton, but to his own council and to the regional council," said Mayor Fred Eisenberger.

Faisal Hussain, the gunman who staged a deadly rampage in Toronto this summer, had four cellphones in his bedroom and another on him. The police found what appeared to be cocaine in a drawer under his bed. And while Hussain stood over a woman and shot her four times, he waved a man in his path away, casually saying, “Don’t worry, I’m not going to shoot you.”

Tom Walli remembers his son Brandon as a special kid: one who was often in trouble, but had a vibrant personality and a talent for music. “Any time he got in trouble … he’d play the piano and soften me up. He was a chip off the old block.”

An elderly St. Catharines man was the person killed in an early-morning two-vehicle crash early Thursday on Dundas Street in Burlington.

With an asking price of $59 million, the country estate of a retired beer company executive is Canada’s most expensive residential property on the Multiple Listings Service.

Mayor Fred Eisenberger wants the province to give municipalities tools to control how many cannabis dispensaries will be allowed in the city once marijuana becomes legal next month.

For more than five months three Hamilton men allegedly took part in the careful planning and sophisticated surveillance that culminated in two mafia murders, including the high-profile death of Angelo Musitano, who was gunned down in his Waterdown driveway.

At least one Hamilton and two Burlington high schools are expected to join a student-led protest against the province reverting to an outdated sex-education curriculum.

Lola Bulajic was nowhere near born yet when New Kids on the Block ruled the airwaves. But an innate shoppers’ instinct made her pluck an NKOTB T-shirt out of a rubbish pile. She somehow knew the ’90s heartthrobs could be spun into gold again.

Feds to comb social media for Canadians' pot-related attitudes, behaviour

Government to provide snapshot of Ontario finances in speech this morning

Legal society poster seeks complainants against two cops on Downtown Eastside

Jury to resume deliberating in case of Calgary man accused of murdering woman

'No excuse:' Online course asks about positive effect of residential schools

Quebec election debate: Coalition leader softens tone on immigration

Rural Canada Post carriers could see 25-per-cent pay hike, says spokesman

Just after the shooting, in which he shot himself dead after first killing 18-year-old Reese Fallon, 10-year-old Julianna Kozis and leaving 13 others injured, Faisal Hussain received a call on his cellphone from home, the paperwork reveals.

Man killed in targeted shooting in downtown Kitchener, police say

Five anglers from the Greater Toronto Area have been fined a total of $2,600 for violating Ontario’s fishery regulations by fishing in a fish sanctuary at Lock 19 in Peterborough.

A grieving Welland mother told a judge her heart “has been ripped into a million pieces, and I will never find the fragments again” as the man responsible for her daughter’s death was sentenced to five years in prison.

Man dead after allegedly being stabbed with machete in Toronto

Homeless campers in B.C. park given one-day reprieve to vacate

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Police papers say Toronto shooter 'emotionally disturbed'

B.C. seniors advocate questions why undiagnosed elderly getting antipsychotics

The arm’s-length agency has previously been subject to questions about its finances, transparency and viability