Kaktovik Mayor Nathan Gordon Jr., decked out ... with angular glasses and a ready smile — also serves as a member of the polar bear patrol, keeping a lookout during the feast.

That's made Kaktovik a popular spot for polar bear tourism. The village also has a polar bear patrol, led by village mayor Nathan Gordon Jr., to run the animals out of town when they get too close ...

My job title is actually “Bear Guard”. Blessed to have met these three on their migration about fifty miles west of Kaktovik, Alaska, near the Beaufort Sea, feeding into the Arctic Ocean.

A land of caribou, whales and polar bears Kaktovik is 670 miles (1,078 km) north of Anchorage, on Barter Island, between the Arctic Ocean and Alaska’s North Slope, an area of vast, treeless tundra ...

The polling place in the tiny Arctic village of Kaktovik never opened when Alaska had its primary election this summer because there was no trained staff to run the precinct.

A land of caribou, whales and polar bears Kaktovik is 670 miles (1,078 km) north of Anchorage, on Barter Island, between the Arctic Ocean and Alaska's North Slope, an area of vast, treeless tundra ...