(May 3, 2010) - Best-selling author and local resident Lawrence Hill will be the featured attraction today at a sold-out luncheon sponsored by Na’amat Hamilton.

(Apr 23, 2010) - Dr. Mick Bhatia and his research team at McMaster University celebrate every major scientific discovery with a bottle of champagne.

(Apr 24, 2010) - The city spent almost $5 million on legal payouts last year, according to a report presented this week.

(Apr 24, 2010) - John Elder is making a six-figure salary as HECFI’s director of entertainment, drawing a pension from the same job, and enjoyed a $100,000 bonus last year.

(Apr 24, 2010) - A Hamilton judge says the 10-year sentence handed to a former Sherwood Secondary School student should serve as a warning to other young people who conceal knives on them when they go out to drink and socialize.

(Apr 22, 2010) - Rick Mercer is thrilled to be getting an honorary doctorate from McMaster, but he’s having trouble seeing why anyone would think he’s qualified to advise graduating university students about their futures.

The Conference Board of Canada says it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a job in the Hamilton area.
The board each month publishes a so-called Help Wanted Index, which looks at the number of online job …

(Feb 16, 2010) - A 17-month old Hamilton boy who inhaled pieces of yellow crayon was saved by medical equipment donated to McMaster Children’s Hospital weeks earlier.

(Feb 12, 2010) - TOURISM HAMILTON’S executive director David Adames will make recommendations to city council next week about how to acquire properties on a three-block parcel of land in the west harbour where a Pan Am Games stadium has been proposed. A business report says the costs of acquiring and remediating the land could add $10 million to the projected cost.

The city has spent almost a billion dollars since 1998 to run provincially mandated programs billed as revenue neutral.

(Feb 8, 2010) - Hamilton firefighters carry a 62-year-old woman off the side of the escarpment along Sydenham Road in Dundas yesterday afternoon. The woman had broken her leg.

(Oct 24, 2009) - A Hamilton special effects artist has put his skills to the test in order to scare the pants off city residents.

(Oct 21, 2009) - Hamilton health officials could be ready as early as Monday to start administering H1N1 flu shots if the province can ship the vaccine tomorrow or Friday.

The second wave of H1N1 is spreading through Hamilton with 10 to 20 new flu cases in the last week.

(Oct 16, 2009) - A young Hamilton man was infected with Ontario’s first case of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1.