| | | Good evening, these are your top stories for Thursday, May 08, 2025. Get up-to-date news any time on our website. | | | | | May 8 , 2025 at 10:46:30 a.m. MDT • : | More than 800 people forced to evacuate from a northern Alberta village due to an approaching wildfire are now allowed to return home. | Read more | | | | May 8 , 2025 at 03:01:26 p.m. MDT • : | After a year-long investigation, five suspects have been arrested and charged in a record-setting drug seizure. | Read more | | | | May 8 , 2025 at 05:07:45 p.m. MDT • : | Alberta Catholics, the largest religious group in the province, are among well over one billion Catholics welcoming the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first North American pontiff. | Read more | | | | | May 8 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. MDT • : | Teachers in Alberta's public, Catholic and Francophone schools have rejected a mediator's proposal that would have given them an average wage increase of 15 per cent over four years. | Read more | | | | May 8 , 2025 at 08:00:00 a.m. MDT • : | A rezoning application to relocate a creek in southeast Edmonton and remove thousands of trees to allow for more industrial land failed at a public hearing at Edmonton's city hall Wednesday. | Read more | | | | | | May 8 , 2025 at 09:00:00 a.m. MDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | May 8 , 2025 at 07:00:00 a.m. MDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | May 8 , 2025 at 07:27:08 a.m. MDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | May 8 , 2025 at 10:56:20 a.m. MDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | May 7 , 2025 at 03:19:46 p.m. MDT • : | | Read more | | | | Enjoying this newsletter? You may also like CBC News Morning Brief, the news you need to know to start the day. Delivered weekday mornings. Sign up here | | | | That's all for now. Check cbc.ca/news throughout the day for the most recent headlines. | | | | | |