An Alberta woman complained to the RCMP earlier this week about the black-and-white drawing of a female figure’s bare back with hands pulling on her braided pigtails. The decal bore an energy services company’s logo below the cartoon.

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation says it will hold an informal meeting with the government on Sunday, which it says could lead to bargaining on Monday.

Student at Hamilton school ‘proactively’ responded to flu-like symptoms and sought medical care, university says.

Trump praises his administration’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and decried fear-mongering as the Democrats’ “new hoax” at trademark Keep America Great rally.

A spokesperson for EvergreenHealth Medical Center said the person died in the facility in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, but gave no other details.

‘I don’t buy this Charter of Rights and Freedoms BS’: Haldimand councillor

Nurses’ unions have warned that national guidelines to protect health-care workers from exposure to the virus are less stringent than those in other jurisdictions, including provincial rules in Ontario.

While the situation isn’t critical yet, recruitment has become one of the top priorities for both services as the workforce gets older and new technology sparks shortages of certain skills.

The strike is set to coincide with a provincewide strike by Ontario’s Catholic school teachers and a rotating strike by Ontario’s high school teachers.

His Second Chance Records offers a relaxed environment for classic rock fans

Many Venezuelans struggle to put food on the table in crisis

Is apple pie good? You betcha.

Hamilton scientists have developed a tool to help determine if the coronavirus is spreading or evolving

Hamilton researchers find ‘a practical lead in an exciting new field’

The veteran theatre company clocks in its 40th year with its beloved Brit tradition

Going it alone is not only career limiting, it can be job ending

Senior government ministers began talks Thursday afternoon before returning the next morning to the Wet’suwet’en office in Smithers, B.C.

Ontario will restrict the sale of vape flavours and high nicotine e-cigarettes in a bid to address youth vaping.

NATO envoys hold emergency talks in wake of deadly airstrike

Months of demonstrations calling for reforms in semi-autonomous Hong Kong crippled its economy and put its leaders and police force under unprecedented pressure.

As the list of countries hit by the coronavirus edged toward 60, the threats to livelihoods were increasingly eyed as warily as the threats to lives.

The vessel dubbed the CCGS John G. Diefenbaker was first promised by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government more than a decade ago.

The Progressive Conservative government has acknowledged there is a problem with the new plates that makes them difficult to read in the dark.

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation said members in select boards will walk off the job on Thursday. President Harvey Bischof maintains that he will call off the ongoing strikes if the government backs down on increasing class sizes.

A constitutional challenge by a doctor who maintains that patients who have waited too long for medical care in the public system are deprived of timely care and should have a right to private treatment is expected to wrap up today.

A scene from 1988’s “Akira” shows a signboard counting down the days until the Olympics. Underneath, someone has graffitied, “Just cancel it!”

A new initiative from the AIDS Network will see a van hitting the streets of Brantford, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk this spring

Two to three years sought for former employee David Ohashi, four to five years sought for Hamilton’s David Norris

A period of unseasonably warm weather is forecast following freezing temperatures Friday, Saturday night

In a sign of the severity of the concern about the possible economic blow from its spread, the price of oil sank 16 per cent.

City licensing tribunal also bans dancing and loud music at King East bar

Mounties do not believe a decal appearing to show a well-known teenage climate activist in a sexual act constitutes a criminal offence.

Royal Major League hasn’t been seen since August 2018

François Sénécal was charged with first-degree murder on Friday in Montreal, in connection with the death of 13-year-old Océane Boyer.

If you’re looking to spruce up the kitchen, or take your garden to the next level, look no further.

CRTC needs to take new approach on wireless price reductions, advocate says

Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government filed written arguments in Federal Court on Friday to back its demand that the federal carbon tax be struck down.

Niagara police are searching for a 55-year-old woman, more than 19 months after a purebred donkey was stolen from a Grimsby barn.

Suspected gas leak forced students out of Norwood Park on Thursday, but the evacuation building was locked

London’s medical officer of health, once a top public health official here in Hamilton, laid out a 40-plus tweet explanation on Twitter for anyone looking for reassurance about Canada’s readiness for the viral outbreak.

The NDP leader called on Ford to replace Education Minister Stephen Lecce calling the negotiation environment toxic under him.

Arkells, fresh off the release of a new single, ‘Years in the Making,’ have announced a big hometown concert bash for June 20, at Tim Hortons Field

Alaska tribes sending food to areas without ferry service

Listen up meow, Bogart from Pantry Four Paws in Hamilton co-winner of the Petcurean Uplift the Underdog contest

What in the world was Coun. Terry Whitehead thinking when he made his comments, readers want to know

The value of the British billionaire’s stake in Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. has fallen about $1.1 billion since the company reported widening losses in the fourth quarter from a year earlier.

The pilot project is an initiative from the Hamilton public school board and the United Way

In the past three years, more than a third of schools and daycares that tested for lead — 36 per cent — had at least one exceedance of Health Canada’s guideline of 5 parts per billion (ppb).

Like snowdrops in a winter garden, hints of spring are everywhere. February’s blast of winter ends Saturday as we look to a lamb of a day on Sunday, hinting for 1 C and a mix of sun and cloud. Here are five events in the Hamilton area, all promising that spring really is right around the corner.

Civil nuptials to be offered in April; councillors exploring audiovisual record of in camera meetings