Hamilton councillors have permanently banned trucks from the Kenilworth Access and Dundurn Street North.

Dundasian's young pro golf career gets big boost,

OMB hearing on hold, proposed settlement confidential.

Dundas Works seeks political mandate for proposal.

Councillor says Pipes and Drums will get grant.

Hockey club gets head start on player search.

When the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Avro Lancaster lumbers down the runway at the Hamilton Air Show on Father’s Day weekend, a group of men in coveralls will be paying particular attention.

Canada Post letter carrier Tracey Noble thinks twice before approaching a house when there’s a dog nearby.

UPDATED. Par on toughest hole earns network TV highlight for Dundas native.

Stoney Creek is in the midst of a building boom, following its former municipal cousins across the city, as they contribute to a low industrial vacancy rate that has officials worried, says the city’s economic development director.

Hamilton councillors have raised the stakes in its on-going battle with the Police Services Board, approving a motion asking the province allow the city to have more direct authority over the entity.

Hamilton police are investigating after an 83-year-old Hamilton woman died from injuries sustained in a car crash last month.

Hamilton politicians agreed to another review of how the Disabled and Aged Regional Transportation System is operating after it posted a $50,000 deficit for 2012 and had more complaints than the previous year.

A proposed “eco-corridor” to help deer and other wildlife to move safely between the Mount Albion and Eramosa Karst conservation areas is being scaled back in response to concerns raised by the city and abutting landowners.

Hamilton businessman Javid Mirza is hoping to ride Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne’s popularity all the way to Queen’s Park.

Five-year master plan budgeted at $850,000 By Richard Leitner News Staff The Hamilton Conservation will spend $170,000 this year on the first phase of a new master plan at Webster’s Falls that will try to ease parking headaches and keep people out of Spencer Creek. Sandy Bell, manager of design and development, said staff hopes to complete the entire project, estimated at $850,000, over the next five years. This year’s work includes planting vegetative buffers to reduce the size of a grass overflow parking area and restrict access to the creek, and replacement of a stairway between Webster’s and Tews falls, he said. It will also see the removal of a ramp leading to the creek and installation of safety signage and new fencing along the waterway as well as at the top and bottom of the closed stairs leading to Spencer Gorge. “We’re hoping this will move us forward,” Bell told directors of the work plan. “We think what we’ve put together here is realistic and it’s following what we promised to do as part of the master planning system and in listening to the people who told us about the issues and what they wanted to see.” Future projects include entrance and parking lot improvements, new washrooms, trail restoration, interpretive signage and repairs to the pavilion and cobblestone bridge walking surface. Bell said staff will present proposed projects during the budgeting process each year to give directors a chance to make changes. He noted the master plan doesn’t yet include any money for re-establishing the Bruce Trail connection from Dundas or replacement of the gorge stairs, two options still under consideration to provide pedestrian access to the lower falls. The stone stairs were shut down in May of last year because they are no longer safe, while a trail bridge over the CN line is also closed for safety reasons. The authority has asked the city to consider installing a pedestrian-activated crosswalk by the CN tunnel on the Highway 8 hill to restore the trail link. “Those two items are sort of tied together,” Bell said of the stairs and trail connection. “One will reflect what we need to do with the other, so there could be potential costs down the road and they’ll have to be integrated in some way.”

Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau will be visiting Dundas in the afternoon on June 20.

Eight public elementary schools on the central Mountain will undergo a closure study this fall as part of efforts to cut 5,000 empty pupil places across the city over the next five years.