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Door-to-door pickups, students restricted to grounds amid search for bear in B.C.
About 20 students and teachers return to fenced school grounds after a grizzly attack that injured four, as two bears are captured for possible DNA testing.
- On November 25, 2025, students returned to Acwsalcta School in Bella Coola under additional safety measures by the Nuxalk First Nation as classes resumed.
- Last Thursday, authorities are searching for a mother grizzly and two cubs after a bear attack near the 4 Mile area involving about 20 people, including students and teachers.
- Conservation officers captured two bears and plan DNA testing on one to check involvement, while students stayed in fenced play areas and used school bus door-to-door service, with secondary students barred from walking to the store.
- Calls to reinstate a trophy grizzly hunt have emerged, but B.C. Environment Minister Tamara Davidson said it was never a population tool and stressed community safety.
- Officials said the attack underscores that people and wildlife share the outdoors, and Brittany Hughes, school principal , said the school understands if families are not ready to send children back, reflecting local unease.
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Door-to-door pickups, students restricted to grounds amid search for bear in B.C.
Students were allowed back to school today in Bella Coola, B.C., where a bear attacked a group of students and teachers last week, but the kids couldn’t leave the grounds and the bus was doing door-to-door service.
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