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9 hours ago · The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating after a woman died in Hamilton Police cells overnight. The SIU say that on Monday, officers arrested the woman in relation to multiple failure to comply offences. She was taken to the station and put in a cell. At about 2:30 a.m. the following day, she was observed […]

News Niagara police take down armed man following convenience store robbery. Niagara Police surrounded and captured an armed gunman following a convenience store robbery early this morning> At approximately 1:40am, Niagara Regional Police Service...

It looks like the slump in condominium sales that is affecting projects across the GTA is resulting in a slowdown of activity on Hamilton’s Pier 8 with developer Waterfront Shores. Under the city’s agreement with Waterfront Shores, the company can trigger pauses in its marketing program in six month increments up to a total of […]

4 days ago · Councillors came to Friday’s 2025 budget session with a laundry list of motions that they hoped would impact the budget. Many of them reflected the ideological rifts that are increasingly on display with this council. Some of the suggestions included: A motion by John Paul Danko to cut money out of the city’s enrichment fund.

Jan 11, 2025 · After almost a month-long holiday hiatus, Hamilton City Council will hold its first series of council and committee meetings for 2025 starting Monday, and the encampment issue will once again dominate the agenda. According to The Public Record, the shipment of tiny shelters for the proposed Barton-Tiffany encampment reached North American shores from …

Jan 12, 2025 · Hamilton’s Housing Services division has released a comprehensive report on the encampment situation in Hamilton covering October to the end of December 2024, and it provides the clearest picture seen in a staff report thus far. The report notes that the number of encampments reduced sharply as the cold weather approached, from 89 sites in […]

Jan 6, 2025 · Hamilton Police didn’t have to go too far to arrest a man they say was responsible for a November shooting That occurred in the area of Jackson Street East and Bowen Street. He was already in custody on another matter. 23 year old, Cleveland Vanevery, from Six Nations faces a string of firearms offences as […]

Jan 14, 2025 · Andrea Horwath is the wrong person to have veto power over budgeting. Once again she is allowing “stealing” from reserves. She had the opportunity, other than the police budget, to tell management to hold the line at an inflationary rate, which is 2.7%, and which pensioners will get on their OAS and CPP.

September 8, 2024 Anyone dreaming of living on Hamilton’s waterfront at Pier 8 can put that notion on pause until further notice. When the Bay Observer saw that billboards at the West Harbour promoting Pier 8 Living were covered over with white paint, a call was placed to Tercot Homes Joe Valela, a partner […]