A change in plans will see the Hamilton Conservation Authority truck about 400 cubic metres of zinc-contaminated sediment dredged from the reservoir by the Crooks’ Hollow dam to the Taro dump in Stoney Creek when the structure is demolished.

Hamilton public school trustees have rejected calls to reverse a decision to let Billy Green elementary school students in the Sherwood catchment area apply to go to Saltfleet District for high school instead.

Five athletes from Dofasco Skating Club’s Special Olympics Figure Skating program have earned a spot on Team Ontario’s roster for the 2012 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games.

The MAC U18 boys won silver at the OVA 18U Challenge Cup Premier Division last month.

Hamilton Community News has been nominated for two awards in the Ontario Community News Association’s (OCNA) Better Newspapers Awards.

For eight weeks in the summer, the park will be the new home of Camp Marydale and Urban Hoops.

Economist Don Drummond has strung a political tight rope that will require more skill for Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to traverse than it will for daredevil Nik Wallenda to walk across a high wire crossing the Niagara Gorge.

In a recent speech at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, the prime minister suggested that, as a part of a broad social “transformation,” the Canadian retirement system would undergo significant changes, with the Prime Minister’s Office suggesting that the age of eligibility for old age security would be increased from 65 to 67.