Multiple bear attacks in Japan have led to injuries and school disruptions, causing authorities to implement safety drills featuring simulated encounters and medical response training.

According to the Anchorage Police Department, the victim is a 67-year-old woman who is in stable condition after she was rescued with a helicopter Tuesday and brought to a hospital. “She sustained injuries to her head, neck and arm,” APD spokesman Christopher Barraza wrote in an email Wednesday.

Wildlife authorities in Wisconsin continued to search for a black bear who they say attacked and severely injured a 69-year-old woman near Comstock.

Following the recent attacks across Japan, the police in Tochigi Prefecture, approximately 100 km north of Tokyo, and the local hunters club conducted a bear drill on Monday.

A woman and her dog encountered a bear and her cubs on a Connecticut trail. The dog escaped alive because of her owner's heroic actions.

A hunter vanished in Japan near a recent brown bear sighting — just 75 miles from a town that declared its first-ever bear emergency, fueling fears he was mauled in a chilling attack. The unidentified man was reported missing by a friend on Mt.

Following the recent attacks across Japan, the police in Tochigi Prefecture, approximately 100 km north of Tokyo, and the local hunters club conducted a bear drill on Monday.

U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Michigan's 13th Congressional District, is sponsoring a bill that would ban hunters from intentionally placing food on federal public lands to attract bears.