Hamilton is the only Canadian stop on BLACKPINK's upcoming tour.

Ordinarily, Geoff Dillon spends his days making vodka, gin, absinthe and other spirits at his small batch distillery in Beamsville, Ont. But these days, he's making something else — hand sanitizer. 

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...

Hamilton's mayor is calling on Ontario Premier Doug Ford to abandon his plan to open up parts of the Greenbelt for development after the province's auditor general found a small group of well-conne...

Hamilton police are reminding the public that even a very unhappy meal at McDonald's is no reason to call 911.

Some frustrated and reluctant Hamilton councillors say they’ll go to great lengths to stop development of the Greenbelt, even if it means physically blocking construction. In the meantime, the city...

Ontario New Democrats have kicked Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama out of caucus, nearly two weeks after she posted a controversial statement in support of Palestinians. Jama's "unilateral actions"...

A Hamilton-based clinic that provides a new therapy aimed at keeping high-risk COVID-19 patients out of hospital is seeing "incredible results," according to the doctor leading it.

Hamilton police arrested and ticketed a Toronto-based lawyer for trespassing near a Progressive Conservative campaign stop on Thursday, but Caryma Sa'd says she was targeted for criticizing party l...

Loblaw has apologized and says a Hamilton No Frills store is investigating after a live mouse was found in a bag of bread.

A 19-year-old Hamilton man is being called heroic after police say he helped someone being accosted near his central lower city mosque before he was fatally shot.

As the brutal and deadly war in Gaza nears its sixth month, Muslim groups in the Hamilton and Niagara area will break with tradition and not welcome MPs into their mosques for Ramadan unless they...

A Hamilton public school board trustee says she's banned from participating in private board and committee meetings after refusing to delete a November social media post about being under investiga...

A copy of an email contradicts what Ontario Premier Doug Ford has previously said about his involvement in the Greenbelt land changes, including he has "no recollection" of meeting developer Sergio...

In the last election in 2019, the Communist Party got less than one per cent of the vote, according to Elections Canada. Although the party says Hamilton membership has increased four-fold, it...

With all 53 polls counted, NDP candidate Sarah Jama, 28, has been elected to be the next MPP for Hamilton Centre.

Mayor Fred Eisenberger says Hamilton police are investigating after "defund the police" protestors left a coffin, on Monday night, in front of his home.

The western chorus frog is about as small as your thumb, but it could prove to be a large obstacle to Premier Doug Ford’s plans for building Highway 413. 

Horwath indicated her intention to use her strong mayor powers late Wednesday, hours after council voted down a staff proposal to build 67 units at 5 and 13 Lake Ave. S.

A street team are hitting downtown Hamilton Tuesday afternoon to reach out to the homeless and intravenous drug users, a group it says is quickly being left behind in COVID-19 plans.

McMaster University and Mohawk College are requiring all students, faculty, staff and visitors who will be on campus or attending university facilities this fall to be vaccinated against COVID-19. 

Ontario-made medical masks are rolling off the line at a GTA auto parts manufacturer thanks in part to engineers at McMaster University and Premier Doug Ford was on hand Tuesday to pick up the first...

Hamilton Centre's independent member of provincial parliament Sarah Jama says she will table motions next week at Queen's Park that would boost Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support Program...

If passed, it would be the first bylaw of its kind in Canada, says Jacqueline Wilson, a Canadian Environmental Law Association lawyer. And with climate change making extreme heat more prevalent, AC...

Yassin Dabeh, 19, worked for a cleaning company at a long-term care home near London, Ont.

Kojo Damptey says due to the close result, "irregularities at the polls" and what he alleges were illegal campaign tactics by Michael Spadafora, he'll be asking for a recount.

Despite inquiries from animal activists and the media, Marineland has remained silent about the well-being of Smooshi the walrus and her calf.

Charles and Margaret Juravinski already pledged to donate their estate — roughly $100 million — and share it between Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilt...

Hamilton is a step closer to having a bylaw that makes it mandatory for people to wear a mask or face covering indoors when they're in public.

It's a crucial day for Hamilton light-rail transit (LRT), as city councillors voted to ink a deal that will lock them into accepting the massive $3.4-billion transit project.

The new director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI) is helping hundreds of thousands of people understand Indigenous history in Canada. Tracy Bear spoke to CBC Hamilton after a...

A group of doctors, lawyers and harm reduction advocates have won a 10-day injunction barring the city from forcing homeless people to leave encampments they've been living in.

The family of 24-year-old Steve Nkusi, a former competitive track athlete, fear the worst but are hoping police, who have been scanning the waters at Sunset Beach for the past three days, will soon...

Vaccine waitlists are being used Haldimand-Norfolk and a hospital in Toronto, but not in Hamilton. Instead public health said local clinics only thaw out the number of vaccines needed for the number...

Coming from Marineland, the Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park, he was quiet and unsure in the natural habitat. Now he's thriving, confident and "a ham," says Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary.

Norfolk County OPP were called to a Port Dover house around 2:30 p.m. Monday and found a large whitetail doe standing calmly on a sofa bed.

Nurses in Hamilton and Niagara hospitals aren’t being paid for self-isolation time if they test negative after being exposed to COVID-19. Advocates are calling on the province to reinstate a benefit...

Hamilton already has enough space to build 87,600 homes within its urban boundaries — close to double its provincial target — without needing to open up the Greenbelt or expand into prime farmland,...

While the act of declaring a state of emergency doesn’t result in any more money from other levels of government, it’s a way for the city to call for change, especially if other municipalities pass...

Mike VanNetten, 45 and otherwise healthy, is in critical condition with COVID-19. His wife says she wants people to know.

Juliet Daniel came to Canada from Barbados in 1983 to study medicine, but decided to pursue cancer research after a personal tragedy. After many years of being the only Black female scientist at...

Students at Westdale Secondary School joined hands in a show of solidarity against Islamophobia and in favour of inclusivity for all.

Mahingan Lamarr, who is Cree and Algonquin, wrote an essay in his Grade 8 class in Hamilton about why John A. Macdonald statues should be removed.

Hamilton native Lincoln Alexander, Canada's first Black MP and federal cabinet minister, is getting yet another honour — as the namesake of the law school at Toronto's Ryerson University.

In an effort to quash the Ford government’s decision to remove Hamilton land from the Greenbelt, the city is considering turning to the courts. Meanwhile, an environmental group encourages council...

Marineland and a former employee, who had been accused of plotting to steal an almost 800-pound walrus, have worked out their decade-long legal battle: The Niagara Falls, Ont., theme park has dropped...

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is going against the province's direction and keeping masks in schools until April.

A Hamilton police officer has been found guilty of four charges under the Police Services Act in connection with his arrest of two photojournalists at the scene of a fatal accident in 2017.

Pan-African restaurant Afrolicious is looking for a new location after the co-owner says they were "kicked out" of their downtown Hamilton location on James Street North last month.

Dozens of teenagers departed from a Hamilton during fourth period on Monday, some carrying Palestinian flags and “Free Gaza” signs and wearing keffiyeh — a traditional Palestinian scarf. 

The Progressive Conservatives tabled a motion at Queen's Park Monday to ban NDP MPP Sarah Jama from speaking in the chamber until she retracts and deletes her statement and formally apologizes. 

The bylaw would make it mandatory to wear a mask indoors at Hamilton businesses to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Thousands of masks, goggles and protective suits sitting idle at McMaster University have been gathered up to be redistributed to healthcare workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak in...

Nicole Bade was riding the bus to Mohawk College when a man collapsed in front of her.

The city is investigating the feasibility of putting homes of no larger than 425 square feet down laneways.

Laurie Pringle left a package full of cat litter in front of her Hamilton home for a recurring thief. The porch pirate took the bait.

Speaking to local media for the first time since her removal from the NDP caucus, the Hamilton Centre Independent MPP says she believes the removal was because she called for a ceasefire in Gaza 'too...

Hamilton police are looking for a stolen prop car from a Batman-related production.

Over 20 years, Canada has built up its urban areas to be three-and-a-half times the size of the island of Montreal.

Two Hamilton paramedics who treated dying teenager Yosif Al-Hasnawi in 2017 are guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life, an Ontario Superior Court judge has found.

Hamilton Centre NDP MPP Sarah Jama is apologizing after making a statement about the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Her apology comes after Ontario Premier Doug Ford called for Jama's resignation.

It's further evidence of the importance of eBooks and eAudiobooks, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to HPL.

After Jared McCarthy was harassed at school because he stuck up for gay people, he took up the instigator's challenge wear a rainbow shirt, and is encouraging other members of the community to do the...

Quarterback Chuck Ealey, who guided Toledo to three unbeaten seasons before playing seven seasons in the CFL was named for induction into the U.S. College Football Hall of Fame on Monday.

At least 22 people experiencing homelessness died in Hamilton in the second half of last year, nearly double the number from the previous six months. All of them were men.