Hamilton's public and Catholic school boards announced Sunday evening their buildings would be closed Monday as a major winter storm hits the area. Environment Canada said up to 35 centimetres of snow was expected throughout the day.

While the library says it will close its Central branch starting in February, for this weekend's cold temperatures, the city says it is activating an emergency warming centre that would operate around the clock at Bennetto Community Centre.

Two Hamilton city councillors have apologized after the city’s integrity commissioner found they violated the city’s code of conduct. Commissioner David Boghosian found Cameron Kroetsch (Ward 2) breached decorum rules and Nrinder Nann (Ward 3) disclosed confidential information.

Concerned about 62 coming job cuts, hospital workers, labour leaders and community members braved temperatures of about -10 C to gather on the sidewalk in front of St. Joe’s Charlton Avenue E., campus and call for change.

The 67-year-old man was punched in the head, police say. A 48-year-old man has been arrested and charged.

Environment Canada has issued yellow level cold warnings for Hamilton, Burlington, Brantford and Niagara Region, telling people to brace for “bitterly cold conditions beginning this evening.”

The majority of Hamilton’s city councillors, and the city’s mayor, say they’re planning to run for their positions again in the municipal election happening later this year. 

Marineland, the defunct amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont., has told the federal government it will euthanize 30 captive belugas and four dolphins at the facility, unless Canada grants permission to ship them to the United States, CBC News has learned.

Teenaged Black boys from the Greater Toronto Area, groomed into the illegal drug trade by adult criminals, are being sent to remote communities into Ontario’s north, putting them in danger, an investigation by the fifth estate found.

A Hamilton family whose son was hit and killed by a city bus last month says he should have been in school on the Thursday afternoon when he died. But the seven-year-old had autism and was only attending school for half-days due to staffing challenges at his school. The family argues if he had been at school, he would still be alive today.

Andrea Horwath has put forward a 2026 budget proposal that includes a 4.25 per cent residential tax increase – about $228 for the average home assessed at $387,100. Now councillors have 30 days to review it and propose amendments before it’s a done deal.

Integrity commissioner found they had been "lulled into a false sense of security" by senior staff and he is not holding them individually responsible.

A man accused of the murder of a Smithville, Ont., woman in 2024 is facing 25 new charges, Niagara police say.

Morgann Book is championing It's Different This Time by Joss Richard. Canada Reads will air April 13-16 on CBC TV, CBC Radio and CBC Books!

"To share information that the project will be done in 2050 is irresponsible," said a Dofasco representative at a community meeting Tuesday night. The plan to power the plant with natural gas instead of coal was supposed to be done by 2028 with the help of hundreds of millions of public dollars.

The trial for a couple who'd been trying to adopt two brothers before one was found dead in their Burlington, Ont., home four years ago is set to end proceedings on Friday. Following her wife's testimony, Becky Hamber answered questions from lawyers, including about how the two treated the children. Here's what we've heard from Hamber so far in Milton Superior Court.

One person has died following a two-vehicle collision in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., on Wednesday morning, police say.

The Art Gallery of Hamilton has announced a planned renovation to grow its space by 20 per cent and incorporate affordable housing for artists.