Police were alerted Tuesday evening to a polar bear seen in Bjørndalen near Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The bear moved into the fjord, and the Sysselmester used a helicopter to guide it safely away from town.

A polar bear was sighted in Iqaluit’s Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park and later shot by Nunavut wildlife officers after police evacuated and closed the area. The sighting drew local hunters and onlookers to the park, highlighting both public safety concerns and the unusual presence of a polar bear near town.

A polar bear was shot and killed on Blomstrandhalvøya, Svalbard, after it threatened a group of residents; the Governor of Svalbard has launched an investigation and the four-year-old male bear was taken to Longyearbyen for examination.

A French woman is hospitalized and a polar bear is dead after the bear attacked the woman on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago Svalbard Monday morning. The woman, who was wounded in the arm by the attacking polar bear, was one of 25 people staying at a tent camp in Nordfjorden on the northern shores of Isfjorden.