Door-to-Door Pickups, Students Restricted to Grounds Amid Search for Bear in BC

A B.C. conservation officer measures a footprint in the mud during the search in Bella Coola on Nov. 22, 2025, for a bear that attacked a group of children and their teachers. The Canadian Press/Handout—B.C. Conservation Officer Service

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.

The search continues for a mother grizzly bear with two cubs thought to be involved in the attack on a group of about 20 people from the school last Thursday that badly injured four.