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A smoking cessation program introduced in two Quesnel schools is helping youth kick butt. Quit 4 Life, a 12-week program affiliated with Health Canada, addresses the issue of smoking in teens and works to help them quit.

A Quesnel teacher has been suspended from his job and is facing sex offense allegations. Ronald Norman Ball was arrested on June 11 and is the subject of pending charges for sexual interference, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation.

The Canadian Diabetes Association Northern B.C. Region is holding a community picnic this Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Rainbow Park. For $10 per person, a choice of hamburger or wrap will be available with veggies, fruits, desserts and beverages.

Prince George RCMP Serious Crime Unit are asking for the public's assistance as they continue to investigate the murder of 44-year-old Vernon Darcy Baker. On April 11, 2009, at approximately 6:30 a.m.

Rod Holmes of Prince George was elected to British Columbia Lung Association board of directors at the organization's annual general meeting in Vancouver on June 10. The board also allocated more than $1.

A man's sexual attack on a female passerby in broad daylight in a quiet residential area of the bowl has police urging the public for help. Police were called to the 700 block-area between Freeman Street and Gillett Street at about 5:15 p.m.

If you're 12 and the size seven adult shoe fits, be prepared to pay HST. A PST exemption on adult-sized clothing sold to children under 15 will no longer be in effect once HST is implemented July 1.

Joseph Robert Fowlie pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts related to the sexual assault of a 62-year-old woman in March.

College of New Caledonia finished the 2009-10 fiscal year with a more-than $900,000 surplus, according to audited financial statements presented to the school's board of governor Wednesday.

A Supreme Court Justice's ruling that absolved the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia from compensating a man for injuries suffered in an accident on a forestry road may not have as widespread implications as first feared.