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If you own U.S. assets, including real estate and stocks, you should be aware of the U.S. Estate Tax - even if you are not a U.S. resident. The U.S. government may levy an estate tax on the fair market value of property located in the U.S.

Students may be looking forward to a provincial professional development day Friday when schools will be closed but teachers won't be sleeping in.

The Port Coquitlam hero who launched a global movement to raise money for cancer research will be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, it was announced today (Wednesday).

Halloween was still eight months away when a man wearing a fake moustache and a brown wig entered the Royal Bank on North Road and demanded a large sum of money last February.

The Coquitlam Now and the Lower Mainland newspaper chain it is part of have been sold along with three B.C. daily newspapers. Postmedia Network Inc.

Nine Tri-Cities business owners are finalists in the 2011 Douglas College Self Employment Program Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

He was a man who, in his retirement, gave more of himself and his accumulated wealth than anyone could have expected. But Alex A. Campbell Sr.'s body gave out on him too soon.

More than 150 businesses have been nominated in six categories for the 2011 Spike Business Awards representing a large cross-section of Port Moody entrepreneurs.

A public plea for help from the family of an elderly Iranian man missing since late last month has yielded several tips but the family's search for their father continues.

Two new staffers have been hired at Port Coquitlam city hall, filling positions that have been left vacant for months.