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A note expressing a wish to commit suicide was found in the wallet of one of the two teenagers who drowned at an area lake during a post-graduation party last spring, a coroner has said in reports on the deaths.

Just as important as remembering those who lost their lives to a work-related incident is supporting those who are left behind to pick up the pieces, according to speakers taking part in the local Day of Mourning ceremony Tuesday afternoon.

If the outgoing president of the local teacher's association has one word to describe how teachers in school district 57 are feeling, it would be angst. "Angst is running rampant," Tina Cousins told the school board at Tuesday night's meeting.

A trial for a man accused of attempted murder saw Tuesday a recorded interview the accused gave to police in which he said he was trying to disarm an adversary and was not trying to kill him.

A 54-year-old Burns Lake man has been charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of three people Monday in the community of about 2,000 people 226 kilometres west of Prince George.

Today's high winds are starting to take their toll on B.C. Hydro's local service. As of 9:44 a.m. 118 homes in the Chief Lake Road area are without power because of trees down across power lines.

Though crime statistics are the lowest they've been in 16 years, it's not a time for the Prince George RCMP to sit back, said the head of the local detachment. Supt.

The provincial government gave the College of New Caledonia $330,496 to reduce wait times in four of its trades programs.

For the first time, residents of the south side of the Lheidli Tenneh reserve near Shelley will have someone to call in case of emergency.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court conviction for a man who severely injured a local Crown prosecutor three-and-a-half years ago with a roundhouse punch to the head in front of the Prince George courthouse .