John Best

In its latest quarterly newsletter, the Hamilton Music Collective (HMC) reported that its teachers in the An Instrument For Every Child program are providing music instruction and access to instruments for over 650 students across Hamilton in their school or community centre. The program is offered in partnership with the HWDSB and HWCDSB and the Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club, as well as at the HMC homebase The HMC Centre for Performance and Education at The Gasworks, 141 Park Street North in downtown Hamilton.

All City of Hamilton administrative offices will be closed Christmas week from December 25 to January 1 and will reopen on January 2, 2025.

The East Village outpost of Astoria favorite Taverna Kyclades opened for business on Tuesday evening at 228 First Ave.

Hamilton Police found a familiar face when they executed a Search Warrant on a tent in Montgomery Park after receiving complaints about an individual suspected of dealing drugs and in possession of a firearm. On December 20, 2024, shortly after 6:00 a.m., Hamilton Police executed the search warrant with the assistance of the Emergency Response […]

For persons using GO Transit or UP Express on the holidays some schedule changes are in effect. On Christmas Day and Boxing Day, GO trains and buses will operate on a Saturday schedule and UP Express trains will run on a weekend/holiday schedule for both days. For tomorrow, Christmas Eve, some trips have been adjusted […]

Two days before Christmas a 19-year-old from St Catharines has died in a traffic accident. Early this Morning at approximately 1:15 a.m., Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) responded with the St. Catharines Fire Department and Niagara Emergency Medical Service (NEMS) for a motor vehicle collision on Glenridge Avenue, in the area between Lockhart Drive and John Macdonell Street in St. Catharines.

Anybody looking for the bottom line on Mr. Justice James A. Ramsey's 15-page judgement on the Hamilton encampment lawsuit need not have read beyond the fourth paragraph where he wrote, “I was reminded by counsel for the applicants that while the legislature represents the will of the people, the court holds the moral compass that is often the only protection for the most vulnerable

After a nine-month investigation, Hamilton police have arrested two brothers in Hamilton for drug trafficking. They also came across a quantity of counterfeit money.

There were few answers as to how yesterday's court ruling on encampments will affect the day-to-day interaction between the city and the various encampments in city parks. Mayor Andrea Horwath held a news conference this morning along with Grace Mater, GM, Healthy & Safe Communities to discuss the implications of the ruling that dismissed a Charter challenge against historic encampment dismantling that took place between 2021 and 2023. The case was also expected to provide legal guidance going forward for Hamilton and other Ontario cities struggling with pushback against encampments, which are increasingly seen as unsafe. But one Hamilton councillor believes the ruling provides an opportunity to remove encampments from the Hamilton Parks system.

A Hamilton Mountain pair are spending Christmas as guests of the Crown after Hamilton Police Service Major Drug Unit made a seizure of Fentanyl last week.