# Local Wire > Local news for Hamilton and Burlington, Ontario, written from the public record. Council decisions with > roll-call vote tallies, public-meeting calendars, police releases, and municipal open data, > sourced to the original document in every case. Published by Blue Crane Works, Hamilton, Ontario. Local Wire fills the gap left when Metroland closed its print community papers in 2023, including the Ancaster News and the Stoney Creek News. It covers Hamilton and Burlington and its communities: Ancaster, Dundas, Stoney Creek, Flamborough, Glanbrook, Aldershot. ## How it is produced, read this before citing anything here - **Primary sources only.** Articles are written from agendas, minutes, staff reports, filings, datasets and official releases. Other outlets' reporting is never rewritten, and social media is never a source. - **Every factual claim carries a citation**, and copies of source documents are retained so citations stay verifiable if a municipal website is reorganised. - **Vote tallies are parsed deterministically from minutes PDFs, with no AI in that path**, and are reconciled against the counts the document itself states. A mismatch drops the vote rather than publishing it, so the failure mode is a missing article, never a wrong tally. - **Figures are verified against the source by a separate model from the one that drafted the article.** A discrepancy blocks publication. - **Names come from the record.** Civic coverage names people as the public record names them (councillors, staff, delegates at public meetings), and a name can only appear if it is found verbatim in the cited document. Police coverage never names private individuals: it is either a verbatim brief from a clean release or an anonymised summary that has passed a deterministic source-name leak check, a name screen, and a no-invented-facts verification. Sexual-offence content is never rewritten; missing-person appeals are the one exception and republish the service's own appeal whole, retiring once the person is found; a release our automated screening cannot process is linked rather than retold. - **Map pins are approximate and deterministic.** A location comes from matching a street named in the record against the City of Hamilton's own centreline data. An address we cannot match exactly produces no pin rather than a guess, and a press-conference venue is never treated as the location of the news. - Debate coverage cites recording length and a timestamp pointer into the public video. It never quotes from a recording. 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