AM900 CHML presents the Top 10 Local News Stories of 2008! Click on the story headlines below to read about the story as it happened, with text taken directly from the story as it aired on CHML during 2008.

Also, scroll down to view some honourable mentions that made news, but didn't make the cut.

Stories 1 to 10 of 10
12/29/2008 Ups and Downs (Literally) at Lister Block At least one city councillor believes the latest problems in the Lister Block are the result of flagrant violations of ... Read Full Story
12/29/2008 C Difficile Outbreak At Hospitals Health Sciences and St. Joseph's Health Care releasing details regarding C. difficile deaths. Hamilton Health tells the Spectator that C. ... Read Full Story
12/29/2008 Listeriosis @ Maple Leaf Foods The number of possible Listeria cases in Hamilton is now four. Officials confirming that aside from the three cases we ... Read Full Story
12/29/2008 Leak At Mayor Fred's Office? Stoney Creek councillor Brad Clark admits he's the man who circulated the recorded conversation of the Mayor. Clark tells the ... Read Full Story
12/29/2008 Ron Lancaster Dies The CFL has lost one of its legends. Canadian Football Hall of Famer Ron Lancaster has died. He was 69.... Read Full Story
12/29/2008 Fire at McMaster's Brandon Hall Residence Nearly 6-hundred McMaster University students have been forced into an emergency shelter after a suspicious fire at a residence on ... Read Full Story
12/29/2008 Housefire in Westdale Kills 5 March 1 - A house at 129 Broadway Ave in Westdale burned down in a horrific inferno that killed five ... Read Full Story
12/29/2008 Metrolinx & Go Transit Announcements Hamilton's Mayor says it will be a "transformational" change.  A provincial agency's 50 billion dollar plan to revolutionize public transit ... Read Full Story
12/29/2008 Local Layoffs *The City's hospitals are cutting as many as 485 jobs as they try to avoid massive deficits.  St. Joseph's and ... Read Full Story
12/29/2008 Ancaster Woman Found Alive In Snowbank Call it a pre-Christmas miracle. A 55 year old Ancaster woman who had been missing since Friday's (Dec 19) snowstorm ... Read Full Story

*The realignment of emergency services at McMaster Children's Hospital

*City of Hamilton votes to put Flamborough Casino windfall into City account, rather than specifically funding Flamborough initiatives

*Huge lineup of Concerts in Hamilton (Springsteen, The Who, Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot etc...)

*Hamilton Tiger-Cats go 3-15, fire head coach Charlie Taaffe, trade Zeke Moreno but find future stars in CFL East Rookie of the Year Prechae Rodriguez and QB Quinton Porter.

*Hamilton Police Sergeant Kevin Dhinsa wins right to return to work following a police tribunal clearing Dhinsa on a technicality, ruling Hamilton police took too long to charge him of sexual harrasment by missing the six-month limit by eight days.

*An 11-year-old Hamilton boy who was given chemotherapy against his wishes will be returned to his parents' custody. When told that he'd need to undergo more chemo he refused and his father decided they would try some alternative therapies.The father lost custody to CAS after medical officials said the boy would have only six months to live without chemotherapy and insisted that he have another round of treatment.