The English Channel is often called the Mount Everest of long-distance swimming. Which doesn't sound like the place you'd expect to find a Hamilton professor. Especially as the weather turns sour and the suffering begins to set in.

Hamilton will be hosting Supercrawl from Sept. 13 to 15. It's a free festival featuring music, art, dance, poetry, fashion, fun and a whole host of other good vibes taking place on James Street North.

Logged out deserts and a decimated Niagara Escarpment sparked a McMaster University student's crusade that earned him the title "father of reforestation." 

Harbour town is a six-part series on thespec.com examining Hamilton's diverse and evolving waterfront, from its port industries to recreational west harbour. 

In this episode we touch on a little bit of everything that's going on down at Hamilton's Harbour. 

It wasn't Jed Clampett -- it was James Miller Williams who first successfully harnessed oil.

Guy Annable, the Ontario spokesperson for Yellow Vests Canada, spoke to Teviah Moro at The Spectator about the movement and frustrations about anti-fascist protesters.

As Hamilton clocks its own LRT progress, Insider checks in with therecord.com's Luisa D'Amato about the opening days of the LRT launch in Waterloo Region. 

Comic, garage podcaster and sometime actor Marc Maron is in Hamilton at a film shoot and held nothing back as he described his first impressions of the place.  

Insider talks with Hamilton Spectator writer Tom Hogue about the changing nature of the cemetery

The Spec's Scott Radley discusses what the ongoing renovation of the Monthill Golf and Country Club means for Hamilton. And whether or not the course can one day become the permanent home of the Canadian Open.