This page includes award-winning stories and a collection of digital stories.
Award-winning stories
- The long wait | Canada's immigrant families find strength amid long wait for reunions
Won 2022 Digital Publishing Awards Best Feature Article (Short)
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- Violent kidnapping leaves 1 son dead, another shot and 63-year-old dad seriously injured in Hamilton
Won 2022 RTDNA Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
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- Notorious Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano gunned down in Burlington, Ont.
Won 2021 RTDNA Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
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Best of 2024
- He died in Hamilton's jail within 24 hours of going in. His family won't give up until they get answers
- Long-term care homes and agency didn't properly check fake nurse's credentials, documents show
- DARTS driver alleges rider sexually assaulted her. 2 years later, she was asked to pick him up again
- Interactive Map | If Hamilton wants more housing, city should stop selling its land, researcher says
- Hamilton drivers got over 143,000 parking tickets last year — here's where
- Suspended police officers cost Hamilton-area taxpayers $14.8M since 2013
- Hamilton police violated woman's Charter rights with no-knock raid, judge rules
- Training pilot injured after helicopter crash and rollover in Burlington, Ont., documents show
- Black residents in Hamilton forming advisory panel about policing concerns
Best of 2023
- Police in Canada look into tech that accesses your home security cameras
- Almost a year later, Hamilton hasn't requested to decriminalize illicit drugs for personal use
- Most Hamilton emergency departments have longer wait times than nearby hospitals, analysis shows
- How scammers impersonating the Mike Holmes team try to steal thousands from his followers
- Up in smoke: Ontario BBQ restaurant closed, while owing over $100K in unpaid wages and rent
- McMaster University has a serial bike thief. Here's how to keep yours safe
- Hamilton Police Association hires lobbyist to influence Ford government
- Death rate among on-duty police officers fallen since 1960s, new data shows, with car crashes top cause
- How this Hamilton man overcame addiction and homelessness to reunite his family
- GTA developer behind collapsed condo in Welland, Ont., facing $10M lawsuit for issues at other condo
- 'Flagpoling': How crossing the border and turning back around can get you faster immigration services
- Father and son drive for 2 days from Virginia to Niagara Falls to load up on ketchup chips
Best of 2022
- Who was policing Ford's Hamilton campaign stop in May? New questions arise on airport, OPP role
- Ontario waiting on more than $1.5M in unpaid COVID-19 fines
- MZOs have been a trump card for the Ford government — here's why it's a serious Ontario election issue
- First Nations say Ontario bypassing mandatory consultation to accelerate land development
- How a lantern festival in Six Nations, Ont., billed as 'magical evening' in Toronto, turned into 'mayhem'
- Transgender students say Hamilton schools need to do more to protect and support them
- Former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath elected mayor of Hamilton after tight race
- Peter Khill guilty of manslaughter, not guilty of murder in killing of Jon Styres
Best of 2020 and 2021
- What happens when you find a business on anti-vaccination passport website? Here's what we found in Hamilton
- 'Hardest year of my life:' Students and teachers are struggling with their mental health
- 'Bad things happening' in Ontario real estate market as homebuyer complaints surge
- This single mom from Dundas is in 'pure shock' after $3,600 moving bill
- Using Hamilton's parking app could send your personal data into the U.S.
- 'Mom, he's following us, run!' - Hamilton imam fears for family after man charged with hate crime (in Arabic)
- 'He's my boss:' Hospital president knew of CEO's Dominican vacation but couldn't stop it
- How COVID-19 pushed a Hamilton man fighting fentanyl addiction to the brink of relapse
- This Hamilton family didn't know they had another sister. Now they're trying to find her
- McMaster review of anti-Black racism in athletics criticized for lack of accountability