The "burn your bra" movement is back, this time ignited by young women shunning the undergarment not for political reasons, but in the name of comfort. However, some braless women feel discomfort when managers mandate they must wear one in the workplace — a rule that could be deemed discriminatory, because it only applies to one gender.

A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a Belgian tourist who was killed while hitchhiking in B.C. last month. Sean Ryan William McKenzie was charged Saturday morning. The location for the charge is listed as Boston Bar, the small town about three hours northeast of Vancouver where tourist Amelie Sakkalis, 28, was found dead.

Capcom’s main western studio is being shut down, the publisher confirmed today. Employees at Capcom Vancouver, which was primarily known for the Dead Rising series and was already hit by layoffs earlier this year, were told today that the studio is closing. In a statement to Kotaku, a company rep noted that “as a result of reviewing titles in development at Capcom Vancouver, Capcom has decided to cancel the development projects at this studio and will concentrate development of major titles in Japan.”

On the British Columbia coast, the Heiltsuk First Nation asserts its rights to manage its resources, and who has access to them, through the seasonal herring harvest. By Ian Gill.

The British Columbia government has tabled legislation aimed at fast-tracking a lawsuit against dozens of players in the opioid industry that it says knowingly spread misinformation and downplayed the addictive properties of the drugs, contributing to the overdose crisis. Attorney-General David Eby said the Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, introduced on Monday, would help “facilitate the introduction of evidence” to expedite the class-action lawsuit announced in late August.

B.C.'s lucrative, underground marijuana business may soon go bust, starting Wednesday when recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada. A new, legal industry has been preparing for months to serve the marketplace and that will hurt — or perhaps destroy — the province's multi-billion dollar illegal pot trade that has flourished for decades.

Campers heading out to one of Canada's national parks can start adding cannabis to their kit. Parks Canada confirmed this week that marijuana can be consumed at its campsites — part of a policy of offering visitors a "consistent and predictable" experience at national parks across the country. "While Parks Canada campgrounds are public areas, the agency treats individual campsites as temporary domiciles for our visitors. For this reason, at Parks Canada campgrounds, consumption of cannabis will be permitted in campsites," spokesperson Marie-Hélène Brisson wrote in an email.

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.

B.C. is only in the first year of a drought. But already signs of heat stress to some of the trees are unmistakable.

The Blueberry River First Nations’ application is part of a much broader lawsuit in which the band alleges its treaty rights have been violated in a region that will be home to the province’s controversial Site C hydroelectric dam

When the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island united with the mainland in 1866, it took two more years of heated debate to decide on the colonial capital. Both New Westminster and Victoria were in the running. Victoria supporters used every sort of influence they could muster to ensure Victoria’s victory, including sabotaging the efforts of Nanaimo MLA, Captain William Hales Franklyn.

Canadian and U.S. scientists are watching a potentially catastrophic collapse of the sockeye salmon run on the Columbia River system this year.

"There are many things that have happened in the province of British Columbia people are not aware of."

For 40 minutes each week, kids will be introduced to simple parts of the language through songs and activities.

This British Columbia Day weekend, Globe and Mail photographer John Lehmann and Western arts correspondent Marsha Lederman have collaborated with Ballet BC to interpret some of the news stories that made headlines in the province during the past 12 months.

The baiting and killing of Cecil triggered outrage but the same illegal method used on a B.C. grizzly bear was widely ignored