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Southern California's luxury market sets a torrid pace to start the year with a TV titan, pop star and billionaire all making big real estate deals.

In Beverly Crest, a 120-acre estate owned by late Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen once listed for $150 million, has sold for $65 million.

The City of Nelson is proud to announce that Heidi Quillan has moved into the newest Bylaw Enforcement Officer position. Officer Quillan recently filled the vacant position due to the retirement of 31-year veteran Officer Fred Thomson. Officer Quillan will join fellow Bylaw Enforcement Officers Mark Young and Bruce Fuhr in the City of Nelson Bylaw Department to serve our

Movie columnist Tom Deignan examines David Nasaw’s book The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy with an eye to Kennedy’s time in Hollywood. The year was 1926, a year before Charles Lindbergh would make his heralded flight across the Atlantic.  And so, when a 38-year-old Joseph P. Kennedy made his first trip to Hollywood, a train would have to do. Kennedy’s grandparents, Patrick Kennedy and Bridget Murphy, had also traveled thousands of miles to chase a dream, from New Ross,  Co. Wexford, to Boston. But they had traveled in dire conditions, at a tim...

The world of 100 years ago was surprisingly close to our own. Here, we choose 12 films from 1921 which capture the flavour of the times.