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Work has begun on bringing a First Nations court to northern B.C. Prince George RCMP Supt. Warren Brown gave city council the head's up during his annual presentation at city hall on Monday night that an effort is now underway.

School District 57 trustees voted against upping their pay, pointing to school staff wage freezes and education cuts as dissuading factors.

There were 1,920 people in Prince George collecting Employment Insurance, according to the latest update from Statistics Canada.

One person was killed in an accident this morning on the Alaska Highway just south of Taylor. RCMP say a pickup truck and a tractor trailer unit collided on the highway near the 228 Road around 4:30 a.m.

City council chose to stay out of a squabble between Vanderhoof and Prince George fall fairs over event dates.

Council voted unanimously to donate $5,000 to St. John's Ambulance to help set up a Mobile First Response Unit. The city has an operating contingency for major one-time expenses, council heard at Monday's meeting.

The company responsible for B.C.'s much-maligned MyEducationBC student information system admitted it had "performance issues" and apologized to School District 57 for the inconvenience.

In four years, the number of needles collected by the city has increased fivefold. In 2015, city staff collected 894 needles through its drop box program, said a Solid Waste Service report to Prince George city council.

City struggling to keep up with increase in illegal dumping

More than 1,000 people showed up at the Coast Inn of the North on Monday to drop off resumes in hopes of landing a job on BC Hydro's Site C dam project.