The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also has been notified of the incident, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said. Wales is a small, predominantly Inupiaq town of less than 200 people just ...

The bear had chased residents after entering the western Alaska town of Wales before attacking the woman and boy, an Alaska State Troopers dispatch report said. The bear was shot and killed by ...

Wales is a small, predominantly Inupiaq town of about 150 people, just over 100 miles (161 kilometers) northwest of Nome. Fatal polar bear attacks have been rare in Alaska's recent history.

Alaska State Troopers said they received a call at 2:30 p.m. about a polar bear chasing “multiple” residents in the roughly 150 person city in the western coastal town of Wales, Alaska.

Four years after Joseph went missing, Florence Okpealuk, 33, vanished from the same town on August 31, 2020. A native of Wales, Alaska, a village about 100 miles northwest of Nome, Florence had ...

Wales is a small, predominantly Inupiaq town of about 150 people, just over 100 miles (161 kilometers) northwest of Nome. Fatal polar bear attacks have been rare in Alaska’s recent history.

The bear chased "multiple" people before it was fatally shot by a resident during the attack in the town of Wales, which occurred around 2:30 p.m., according to a dispatch from the Alaska ...

The bear had chased residents after entering the western Alaska town of Wales before attacking the woman and boy, an Alaska State Troopers dispatch report said. The bear was shot and killed by ...

A polar bear that chased people around a small Alaska town attacked and killed a mother ... the attack occurred in Wales, a small community on the western tip of Alaska's Seward Peninsula.