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By Colin MacAskill Dividends are quarterly payouts from a company to its shareholders. And today's healthy dividend yields are eclipsing those of money market funds and the bond market. Their advantages are numerous and they carry great potential.

• The funeral of Charlene Reaveley will be held on Saturday, February 26 at Haney Presbyterian Church (11858 216th Street, Maple Ridge) at 1:30 p.m.

A Coquitlam councillor says it's time for the city to ban cosmetic pesticides - and if it doesn't, she'll make it a hot topic in November's civic election race. Coun.

Teenage girls walking to and from school in the Tri-Cities are being warned about an older man stopping or slowing his car to make lewd comments and gestures at them.

There were sighs of anger in Port Coquitlam court Monday as Cory Sater, the man accused of running down and killing Lorraine Cruz, 26, and Charlene Reaveley, 30, did not appear for his hearing.

Mortgage rates - should I lock in? By Peter Kinch With the recent upswing in interest rates, there is a tendency for those who are currently in a variable rate mortgage to rush out and lock in to the best five-year rate available today.

There were sighs of anger in Port Coquitlam court Monday as Cory Sater, the man accused of running down and killing Lorraine Cruz, 26, and Charlene Reaveley, 30, did not appear for his hearing.

A Coquitlam family doctor is one of more than 550 Canadian physicians, researchers and health scientists voicing their opposition to a federal crime bill that would impose mandatory minimum jail terms for people arrested on drug offences.

They've long been Tri-City residents. Now, they're also Canadians.

What started with just a telephone, a computer, a fax machine and a filing cabinet has blossomed into a chic media marketing boutique - in Port Coquitlam - with clients from Manhattan to the Philippines.