Alaska Public Media

Six years after the last polar bear boat tour in Kaktovik, the community is working to bring the industry back

Nathan Gordon Jr. drove his truck on the spit right outside of Kaktovik in early March. He is the city mayor and leads the town's polar bear patrol program. Under his back seat, he had a shotgun, and ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Rare attack on mother, child in Alaska renews interest in polar bear patrols

But this past week, a polar bear attack killed a mother and her 1-year-old son in Wales, a tiny, remote Alaska whaling village whose bear patrol had lapsed. The incident — the first fatal polar bear ...
The Eagle

Rare attack on mother, child in Alaska renews interest in polar bear patrols

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For isolated communities at the top of the world, keeping the planet's largest land predators — polar bears — out of town is key to coexistence. That can mean patrolling for the ...