Travel to Churchill in northern Canada to see the world’s greatest ... through the town's polar bear holding facility, aka "polar bear jail". This morning, you will have the opportunity to ...

Since WCCO first visited Churchill in 1993, the polar bear population here has been cut in half, according to estimates ...

troublesome bears that wander into town too often may be put into the polar bear jail — a big Quonset hut-style structure with 28 concrete-and-steel cells — before being returned to the wild.

"If you want to lock eyes with a bear, you've got to make your way to Churchill," said John Gunter, CEO of Frontiers North, a ...

With Canada home to about 16,000 polar bears, isolated communities living ... polar bears that cannot be scared off are kept in an air-conditioned "bear jail" until the ice freezes up.

Polar bears range across the Arctic Ocean, in parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, Greenland and Norway (Svalbard). They can walk on ice or swim long distances to find food or breed – sometimes roaming ...