Churchill, Manitoba 2 minute read The Northern Lights show during the aurora tourist season in Churchill, Manitoba. Alan Dyer—VW PICS/Universal Images Group/Getty Images ...

Churchill calls itself the “polar bear capital of the world.” A gateway to the Arctic, this tiny town 600 miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba’s capital, sits on the remote western shore of ...

As of 2021, Churchill, Manitoba, had a population of about 870 permanent human residents. Polar bears used to outnumber people, but the bears’ population has declined steeply in recent years.

Soon, we began our smooth 2½-hour flight to Churchill, the “Gem of the North,” as its called, a small former railroad town built by the Hudson Bay Co. Lake Winnipeg, below us, seemed never ...

Acclaimed photographer Dan Cox, a Minnesota native, has been trekking to Churchill nearly every year since 1987. "It's a rough-around-the-edges community that has these amazing animals that move ...