The past year’s population growth rate in the United States was the slowest in a century due to declining births, increasing deaths and the slowdown of international migration, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Task force meant to explore alternatives to now-axed light-rail initiative to include city manager, Eisenberger says

The RBG needs 2,700 trees

Welcome 2020 at these area events.

The city will be hit with rain, snow and unseasonable warmth

Fellow McMaster students once caught the man watching child pornography.

From ‘renovictions’ to skyrocketing rents, it was a painful year as tenant advocates pushed for solutions

O’Toole placed third in the 2017 race that ended with Andrew Scheer beating Maxime Bernier by a hair.

Federal officials combing through skills training programs have concluded major changes are needed if those are to be used to address a shortage of airline pilots.

Firefighters from across Canada are on their way to Australia to bolster Canadians already assisting the country in the battle against devastating wildfires.

There’s plenty to do around Halton Region the week of Dec. 31 to Jan. 3.

Officials say list highlights alarming trend where some callers know they aren’t facing an emergency and choose to call 911 anyway.

Ideally you should draw up a saving plan in your late 30s or early 40s. But it can still be an enormous help if you don’t manage to get to it until your late 40s or 50s or even later.

Spectator columnists Steve Milton and Scott Radley deconstruct the year that was in sports

A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 27 members of the country’s security forces to death by hanging for torturing and killing a detained protester during the uprising against longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir earlier this year.

Carbon dioxide turned into a useful product that can be profitably removed from the atmosphere

Russian President Vladimir Putin has argued that collusion between Western powers and Adolf Hitler paved the way for the war. He also cast Poland as an anti-Semitic country that welcomed Hitler’s plans to destroy Europe’s Jews.

The government will still allow the products to be promoted in specialty vaping and cannabis shops, which are open to people aged 19 and older.

Turning the taps off when it comes to spending can save you hundreds — sometimes thousands — of dollars. Interested in the challenge? There are three rules...

From London to New York, from Stratford and Niagara-on-the-Lake to Toronto

Third such incident reported since new transparency measures introduced

For Christine DeMarco and her autistic daughter, loss of local coffee shop hits home

Why we were royally obsessed this decade

Barton Street location doesn’t have a drive-thru

Scientist used a tool called CRISPR to try to disable a gene that allows the AIDS virus to enter a cell

The Bulldogs sit in fifth place of the OHL’s Eastern Conference.

A look at the area from James Street, Cliffview Park and Dundurn Castle

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A vehicle “barrelled through” the scene, nearly striking an officer, said Det. Const. Jaimi Bannon.

Milles Anthony Ramirez, 31, of Winnipeg, is charged with second-degree murder and remains in custody.

Members of the union representing 800 local transit workers voted 83 per cent in favour of new collective agreement

The Hamilton philanthropist and businessman was honoured for his contributions to the Canadian Football League (CFL) and for his entrepreneurial and philanthropic leadership in his community

A Twitter user first passed along the alleged name of the person that said Trump had dealings with Ukraine.

The commission has been phasing out the Canadian Light Rail Vehicles and replacing them with more accessible, low-floor streetcars that were first introduced in 2014.

In addition to his U.S. passport, Whelan is a citizen of three other countries: Britain, Canada and Ireland.

The swap at a checkpoint near the rebel-held city of Horlivka was part of an agreement brokered this month at a summit of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.

Officials say one other person was shot dead in the attack Sunday morning and another was taken to a hospital in critical condition.

All of the 70 or so residents taken out safely, however, they will not be able to return to their units, and officials are looking for other places to house them.

A review noted barriers to applying via the internet for benefits are “psychological and emotional.”

Innovative projects are hoping to help in the fight against climate change by turning its main driver — carbon dioxide — into a useful product that can be profitably removed from the atmosphere.

“Who’s Canadian and misses these lids at Tim Hortons like I do,” Bieber asked his social media followers alongside an image of the old Tim Hortons lid.

A knife-wielding man stormed into a rabbi’s home and stabbed five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City, an ambush the governor said was an act of domestic terrorism fuelled by intolerance and a “cancer” of growing hatred in America.

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a white pickup truck allegedly involved in the crash

Police say the motorcycle struck two pedestrians as they were trying to cross the road at Mohawk Road East, just east of Upper Gage Avenue, on the Mountain Saturday.

Canadians with health issues face difficulty finding affordable life insurance

Looking back on the 13 lives taken in Hamilton

Father Claudio Piccinini could use a few miracles.

From the rise of populism and Occupy to the Trudeau Liberals’ defence of globalization, the Great Recession of 2008-09 can be seen as a trigger for the currents that helped shape politics of the past decade

The majority of affected consumers are reportedly in B.C. and Ontario, with the company’s investigation finding 85,000 customers impacted from 2016 or earlier in Ontario.

The warning comes after two fires caused by candles in two days, including one that sent a resident to hospital and caused $75,000 in damages.