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A Grande Prairie man faces eight child sexual exploitation charges after allegedly trying to lure and sexually assault a young boy earlier this month, and Alberta authorities believe there may be more victims in Northern B.C.

After ten years, school board trustee Trish Perrin has decided to step aside. The longtime trustee and education advocate announced in a Facebook post that she would not be seeking re-election in this fall's civic election.

College of New Caledonia staff pressed for upgrades to student services as part of the college's budget consultations on Wednesday night.

Prince George School District 57 passed a $170 million budget on Tuesday night, which board chair Tim Bennett described as a significant improvement from past years.

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will be in Prince George next week. It will run for three days, starting Monday at the Civic Centre with the opening and closing ceremonies open to the public.

A man who pleaded guilty to pimping three drug-addicted women was sentenced Wednesday to a further year in jail.

The School District 57 board approved an updated sexual orientation and gender identity policy that more explicitly adopts language aimed at protecting transgender or gender-non-conforming students on Tuesday night.

City council voted to spend $200,000 on establishing a system of tracking devices for residential garbage bins on Monday night.

The City of Prince George has approved spending the money to hire two additional RCMP officers.

The B.C. Prosecution Service will not take on a private prosecution launched by a former First Nation chief to keep alive provincial charges in the catastrophic 2014 Mount Polley tailings dam collapse.