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Binbrook Pride brings community together, after a year of feeling both love and wrath of social media
Binbrook Pride host its fifth annual celebration Sunday at the fairgrounds. Despite the ups and downs of the past year, it's 'so important' for queer people in the rural area to show up and make themselves seen, says festival co-chair.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's dad says son's NBA MVP award is '100% surreal'
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s father says it’s “100 per cent surreal” witnessing his son being named the NBA's Most Valuable Player.
Former city director called off enforcement at Gore Park building that later collapsed: report
A City of Hamilton timeline of interactions with owners of the Gore Park buildings that collapsed in November shows a former director of licensing and bylaw services advised officers not to enforce deficiencies at the property on multiple occasions.
Bird electric scooter program expanding across a big swath of Hamilton Mountain
No longer is whipping along a city pathway with the wind in your hair just for lower-city residents.
Hamilton water operators go on strike demanding better pay from the city
Union says 54 workers have walked off the job after they failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the City of Hamilton by Tuesday night.
McMaster University study links ultra-processed food to range of health risks
Researchers found that consumption of ultra-processed foods was linked with correlating levels of high blood pressure and cholesterol, and was not affected by an individual's age, size and level of activity.
Hamilton police officer accused of sexual assault 'did not take no for an answer,' Crown says
The defence has cast Const. Jeff Turnbull as a caring colleague who sought verbal consent from the woman the 40-year-old was having an affair with at every step of the way. The Crown says he was pushy, inappropriate and made his Hamilton police colleague uncomfortable.
Hamilton police officer accused of raping colleague says their affair was consensual
The defence lawyer for a Hamilton police officer accused of sexually assaulting a colleague spent much of Monday portraying the relationship between the two as a consensual, if clandestine, affair.
CANADA VOTES 2025
These Hamilton ridings are ones to watch, political experts say in final days of campaign
Local political scientists are watching for federal election results in local ridings held by the New Democrats and the Conservatives, to see just how much pull the apparent Liberal surge has in this region.
Budgetary transparency report card gives Hamilton city hall an 'F'
A report looking at fiscal accountability and transparency in Canadian municipalities has given Hamilton a failing grade – one of only four out of the country’s 32 largest cities to receive such low marks. The city says the ransomware attack impacted that score.