Ontario Premier Doug Ford provides update on COVID-19 vaccination plan

From scholarships and bursaries to park enhancements and upgrades, local service clubs have been leaving their mark on the community for years. Some of their contributions, projects and initiatives are plotted on the map below.

Flamborough’s uniquely symbiotic nature offers the perfect breeding ground for service clubs to thrive. Among their ranks are local businesspeople who have done a seamless job ensuring collaboration between their clubs and their business in an effort to help the community reach its fullest potential.

Ancaster's business and community organizers step up during food drive's first virtual event.

With the recent approval of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, Canada now has four jabs to choose from in the fight against the pandemic.

When it comes to comparing the efficacy of different types of COVID-19 vaccines, scientists have one word of advice: don't.

The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is still studying why primary and junior elementary students learning from home did better in reading on their first-term report cards than those attending school — although it’s got a theory.

A new pedestrian crossover was recently completed in downtown Ancaster along Wilson Street.

As a historian, Janice Forsyth is comfortable with the idea that our understanding of the past is always changing.

When Michelle Del Monte of Michelle My Belle Bridal Boutique built her new premises on Dundas Street in the Waterdown downtown core, she wanted to keep the Victorian look but add a modern edge to the design.

When looking for a word to describe the business community along Concession Street, resiliency comes to mind.

Lakeridge Health doctors addressed questions about the vaccine efficacy and hesitancy in a recent online forum hosted by the Clarington Board of Trade on Tuesday, March 9.

Local Rotarians are also helping to support Valley Town restaurants.

Hamilton firefighters found smoke, but no flames inside a Hamilton Mountain apartment unit on March 15 after crews were dispatched for a possible structure fire.

The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is reporting one student at Greensville Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19.

Scams that have been popular involve selling puppies, credit and debit cards and using phishing emails.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford holds a news conference at Humber College in Etobicoke to make an announcement.

Mohawk College and the public health department have confirmed two new cases of the coronavirus at the Fennell campus.

A new class-action claim against Whitby's Sunnycrest Nursing Home is seeking $30 million in damages after a COVID-19 outbreak claimed 34 lives.

Stoney Creek trustee Carole Paikin Miller continues to maintain her silence on the findings of an outside investigation that have prompted her Hamilton public school board colleagues to ask her to resign.

Amid reports that talks about Hamilton’s proposed light rail transit (LRT) are ongoing between the provincial government, federal government and the Labourers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA), Ward 15 Coun. Judi Partridge is reiterating her opposition to the project.

Ashley Short’s metamorphosis into cannabis entrepreneur came a bit by accident.

Walmart Canada announced March 15 it will be closing six stores across the country, including the one at the County Fair Plaza at 499 Mohawk Rd. E. and Upper Sherman Avenue.

Darryl Howe is frustrated.The owner of the Stage Diner on Concession Street says he was denied an Ontario business support grant several weeks ago and has turned to Hamilton Mountain NDP MPP Monique Taylor’s office for help.Taylor said she’s n

City staff checking into property’s use for film production parking

The start date for work is not set, but work is to be completed by November 25, 2022.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford will provide an update on the province's COVID-19 vaccination plan at 1 p.m.

Halton Region is recommending three homes on Mountain Brow Road West in Burlington be connected to the City of Hamilton’s municipal water supply — but only if there is no cost to the Region.

"If we don't buy local, we're going to have to say goodbye to local," said Rocco Rossi, president of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.

Flamborough Chamber of Commerce executive director Matteo Patricelli said small local businesses are the backbone of the economy in Flamborough — but they’re more than that.

Cases reported at Balaclava, Mary Hopkins and Guy Brown schools.

Beginning at 8 a.m. on March 15, Ontarians who will be turning 80 or older in 2021 will be eligible to book their COVID-19 vaccination appointments through the province's new online booking system and customer service desk.

The mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Harry Howell Arena has closed for the time being.

One coronavirus case in Ontario is all it took at the start of 2020 for anti-Asian racist attitudes to run rampant.

Nearly 2,000 bracelet and charm sets sold in Canadian stores are being recalled because they could be "highly toxic," according to Health Canada.

When the first presumptive case of coronavirus was announced in Ontario in January 2020, Amy Go, president of the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice, said she feared a rise in anti-Asian racism.

When it comes to keeping food on the table for Stoney Creek residents struggling to make ends meet, Ben Winter says one thing is clear — it couldn’t happen without the ongoing help from local businesses, big and small.

Mohawk College has been approved for two $200,000 grants over the next two years that will be used to help the college overcome systemic barriers to career advancement, recruitment and retention of under-represented and disadvantaged groups

By building ongoing collaboration, Ancaster resident Stelios Georgiades will spend the next decade with his team improving care for children with autism and other neurodevelopment conditions in Hamilton and across Canada.

NEC and city say former Town of Dundas exemption overrides official plan and Niagara Escarpment Plan

It’s a good idea in theory, but some Mountain resident fear the recently launched education campaign as part of the city’s Vison Zero Action Plan will do little to stop drivers speeding through their neighbourhoods if there is no enforcement to go with it.

Costco has issued an "important recall notice" warning customers about a recall involving tables sold by the wholesale giant.

Stoney Creek Coun. Brad Clark is scheduled to introduce a motion to delay city planning guidelines until after pandemic.

Hamilton police say information provided by the public has helped them identify and arrest four people from Hamilton in connection with an assault of a man with autism at a plaza on Upper Gage Avenue near the Lincoln Alexander Parkway Feb. 4.

Whether it’s cash, services in kind or serving on a volunteer board of directors, support from the Mountain business community has been key to the survival of numerous charities and non-profit organizations in the upper and lower city.

Starting in September, Ontario’s high school students will have the option to learn American Sign Language (ASL) and the French Canadian equivalent, Langue des signes québécoise (LSQ) as a second language.

City of Hamilton water crews are responding to a “significant watermain break” on Dundas Street East between Hollybush Drive and Highway 6.

Galer Equipment has built a brand new dealership at their 557 Highway 5 site in Flamborough.

Known only as the Nation River Lady, a woman's body was discovered in 1975 floating face down in Casselman, Ont.

Hamilton Police are asking the public for assistance identifying the suspect in a break and enter at the Grass Station dispensary in Waterdown.