There's a lot to celebrate about beautiful British Columbia, so we thought we'd gather up a few facts and figures.

On a day when China’s stock market rout hit the share prices of B.C.-based commodity producers and spilled panic into North American capital markets, Vancouver resident Wendy Wu was focused on the pain in her own trading portfolio. “I’m annoyed to death. Annoyed to death,” said an exasperated Wu, who has been day trading Chinese stocks since before she moved to Vancouver’s west side from Luoyang in central China.

B.C.'s most experienced rehabilitation specialist for black bears said Wednesday it is crazy for the Ministry of Environment to assert that two eight-week-old cubs on northern Vancouver Island needed to be destroyed because they'd become habituated to human food.

Tofino and Ucluelet are side-by-side towns on the edge of Vancouver Island, British Columbia housing old-growth rainforests, beaches and dramatic coastlines

In British Columbia, more than 2,300 workers are risking their lives battling upwards of 200 active wildfires. Reporter Andrea Woo and photographer John Lehmann joined one team putting out a blaze along the Sunshine Coast

Lightning may be a factor in the forest fires raging in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, but the worst blazes are often man-made

One of the largest leaks in Alberta history has spilled about five million litres of emulsion from a Nexen Energy pipeline at the company’s Long Lake oilsands facility south of Fort McMurray.

B.C.'s southern resident orcas may be the most studied marine mammals in the world but their survival is still precarious, particular for four calves born this year.

Fire crews and officials scrambled to keep residents safe from a quickly spreading blaze near Westside Road in West Kelowna, B.C., which has so far destroyed at least one home.

UBC professor argues precautionary drought restrictions should have been in place much earlier

Federal approval of Pacific NorthWest’s Lelu Island bridge and trestle proposal might not happen until the fall

For the second time this summer, the Okanagan has been placed under a Smoky Skies Advisory.

An orca that was stranded on some rocks was kept alive for eight hours by a dedicated team of whale researchers and volunteers on the North Coast of B.C.

Watch Amazing turn of events for Sam the lonely orca Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

Soot and smoke from B.C.'s wildfires have been spotted as far away as the ice fields of Greenland, according to a satellite image from NASA.

Researches from UNBC are searching the forests of northern B.C. for undiscovered mushroom species that may help in the fight against cancer.

The campaign to save a large swath of wilderness that has become known as the Great Bear Rainforest, began in 1995; it may end with a proposed agreement between the province, First Nations, the forestry industry and environmentalists

First Nations leaders hope that the project will be halted by public outcry, but BC Hydro says a poll shows widespread acceptance

The Xeni Gwet’in Youth Wagon Trip takes participants on an eight-day journey across roughly 200 kilometre in the Nemiah Valley's, ending at the Williams Lake Stampede

Things are worse. They are so much worse. I cannot express how bad things are getting. It's because I love the work so much, that I have to leave. I've spent the last two years thinking about going. I've felt increasingly sorrowful that I simply cannot do all that these kids need and deserve me to do.