Concerns over the development of data centres in Hamilton were front and centre at city hall this summer. Here's how mayoral candidates say they'd manage data centre development.

After a narrow win in 2022, Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath is running for re-election against 12 candidates, including last election's runner-up Keanin Loomis and Ward 8 councillor Rob Cooper. Here's w...

Homelessness, road and building infrastructure, and soot are some of the main concerns of candidates currently running for council in Ward 3. Two-term councillor Nrinder Nann will face off against two...

Candidates running for Ward 2 councillor share their priorities, including homelessness, road safety, crime and housing.

Candidates running for Ward 1 councillor share their priorities, including infrastructure, affordable housing and transparency.

A group of Hamilton Starbucks workers who joined United Steelworkers this month aims to address issues including harassment by customers and an unclear wage structure as they prepare to negotiate thei...

CBC Niagara wants to know what's top of mind for voters this upcoming municipal election.

CBC Hamilton is distributing a survey asking voters about their top municipal election issues. Voting day is Oct. 26.

Hamilton-born NHL prospect Matthew Mayich 'needs a miracle' in hospital after he collapsed during a 'brutal' workout at Arizona State University last month, according to his family's lawyer. Rob Carey...

With all polls counted, Progressive Conservative and former city councillor Jeff Beattie has won the Hamilton East—Stoney Creek provincial byelection.

A soaking wet bald eagle that was unable to fly was rescued from the Brantford Landfill Site Scale and is recovering at a wildlife rehabilitation facility. "She was soaked to the skin," says the autho...

The Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ont., has been working to raise and release endangered Blanding's turtles since 2020. With this year's release of 52 turtles, the population will have quadru...

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CBC News reached out to byelection candidates to ask about the issues they feel are most important to the community — and how they would plan to tackle them. Ahead of the Sept. 3 vote, here's what the...

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More than 100 people gathered outside of Hamilton city hall around midday Saturday to denounce the fact that a self-proclaimed nationalist group that wants to deport millions of people from Canada pla...

Hamilton police say a venue that had rented space to an anti-immigration group for its national conference later this week has cancelled the booking. This follows weeks of community groups, politician...

Hamilton's associate medical officer of health has clarified the public health department's finding there are no short- or long-term impacts linked to the grime coating city neighbourhoods in July.

Hamilton ordered to permit at least "1,600 gross developable hectares" of new greenfield lands into urban area.

Some elected officials in Hamilton and Burlington say Ontario's new plan to attract data centres needs more transparency for residents. Premier Doug Ford unveiled a new data centre framework last week...

While some people in Hamilton report feeling unsafe in the city, Statistics Canada crime data confirms what police have been saying: overall, crime in Hamilton is trending down, and below Ontario and ...

Emissions from carbon black manufacturer Birla Carbon were "a primary source" of the soot falling on Hamilton neighbourhoods in early July, Ontario's Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Park...

Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath says she has sent letters to local businesses about an anti-immigration group that could be renting space in the city for a conference. Horwath says people are free to pr...

A local photographer captured images of a river otter in the Grimsby Wetlands early this month. Experts say otters used to be rare in southwestern Ontario, but this and other sightings point to a welc...

McMaster University researchers studying the soot falling on Hamilton neighbourhoods have determined the grimy, black substance contains toxic chemicals consistent with coal combustion. For the "What'...

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Dominion Society, which supports deporting immigrants en masse, is advertising a conference in Hamilton this month. It's prompted anti-racism groups to advise venues and businesses on how to avoid unw...

The City of Hamilton updated its Vision Zero plan to improve road safety. At a committee meeting last month, staff told councillors collisions dropped 34 per cent through the first six years of the pl...

The City of St. Catharines, Ont., has declared a state of emergency after two extreme rainstorms in less than a week triggered widespread flooding, overwhelmed municipal infrastructure and caused sign...

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Hamilton could soon have a bylaw pausing data centre developments in the city. It would be the first in the country to do so, researcher Anne Pasek says.

Residents in and around Hamilton's Crown Point neighbourhood are reporting homes and properties are coated in soot this week. Soot is a perennial concern for communities near the city's industrial are...

Opposition to AI infrastructure is crystallizing into a political force — the likes of which this province has seen before.

Indigenous community members and organizations say they feel targeted after comments made by a former Niagara Falls administrator and current Mayor Jim Diodati at a June 23 city council meeting about ...

Hamilton police are searching the Binbrook Conservation Area for a seven-year-old boy who was last seen on the beach, by the floating inflatable playground.

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As rescuers in Venezuela continue searching for survivors of last week's earthquake, Latino residents in the Hamilton-Niagara area are working with an Ontario-wide network of community members to send...

This week could see temperatures as high as 35 C and a humidex of 42, according to Environment Canada. Hamilton declared a heat warning for Tuesday.

Voters will go to the polls on Oct. 26 for this year's municipal election. Candidates have until Aug. 21 to register. Here's who's running in Hamilton and its 15 wards so far.

Hamilton Police Services Board member Dr. Anjali Menezes resigned Thursday from the oversight body. The citizen appointee alleges mistreatment from other members, described the board as a "rubber stam...

City of Hamilton staff will report back to councillors at their next meeting on July 15 with a bylaw imposing a moratorium on the construction of the facilities that securely store, process and distri...

Hamilton city council is poised to decide whether to approve a moratorium on data centre development pending new local rules. Proponents say it'd give the city time to respond to a growing industry. C...

It's been three years since city council directed staff to draft a bylaw that will force landlords to cool units. At a planning committee meeting Tuesday, councillors granted a staff request to defer ...

Hamilton has taken the first steps toward a moratorium on the development of artificial intelligence data centres. Council's planning committee unanimously supported a motion to have staff draft a byl...

TORONTO - Rogers Sportsnet and the CBC say that the public broadcaster will not carry NHL broadcasts next season.

The head of an Ontario tech company proposing an AI data centre for the old Hamilton Spectator building on Frid Street says he understands people's concerns about such facilities and wants to build th...