With enthusiasm for unique, premium spirits growing each year, BC Liquor Stores is pleased to release rare, highly recommended selections for the annual Spirit Release on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of the person who died as the result of a plane crash in Richmond, BC, on Oct. 27, 2011.

The BC Coroners Service has identified a woman whose feet washed ashore in Richmond, in 2008.

The BC Coroners Service has identified the victim of a house fire in Vancouver in the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2011.

The BC Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) has been named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in a national competition organized by Mediacorp Canada Inc. and published in the Globe and Mail Oct. 7.

The 2008 Bordeaux vintage wines are available in BC Liquor Stores.

Bordeaux is a region in southwest France that is world-famous for producing prestigious wines of exceptional quality.

BC Liquor Stores customers and staff are making a difference in the Horn of Africa by donating $323,902 to help support Red Cross relief efforts in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Uganda.

About 1,000 pedestrians, 500 drivers and 400 cyclists received timely reminders about crossing some of the city's most dangerous corridors without a trip to the hospital, during a three-week safety blitz funded by the Province and led by Vancouver Police.

Beginning Aug. 5, BC Liquor Store customers can help support Red Cross drought relief efforts in the Horn of Africa (which includes Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Uganda) by making donations at any of the 197 BC Liquor Stores located in communities across British Columbia.

As B.C.'s chief coroner, I was very pleased with the auditor general's recent finding that the BC Coroners Service is meeting its core mandate - accurately and independently investigating all reported deaths, holding mandatory inquests and reviewing all children's deaths.