Kevin Van Damme of the BC Conservation Officer Service said the teachers used bear spray and small noisemakers called bear bangers to repel the animal in the area of Bella Coola, the name of a small town and its underlying valley between the Coast Mountains and Queen Charlotte Sound.

A mother is detailing what her 10-year-old son endured when a grizzly bear attacked during a school outing in British Columbia, Canada.

Following an attack on a school group on British Columbia’s Central Coast, the B.C. Wildlife Federation is calling on the province to consider lifting the ban on hunting grizzly bears — but not everyone is convinced.

Kraig Krause reports the latest from Bella Coola, B.C., where a grizzly bear attacked students and teachers on a field trip, sending four to the hospital.

Eye witnesses say teachers used their bare hand, crutches and bear spray to defend students from a grizzly bear that attacked them during a school trip. in Bella Coola, B.C.

What was to be a short afternoon field trip for about 20 students and staff of a school in Bella Coola, B.C., became a scene of trauma and heroism when a grizzly bear attacked without cause, badly injuring four people, the Nuxalk Nation's elected chief said on Friday.