...One time my grandfather, he shot a bear out his kitchen window - after he shot his washer-dryer," Tuktoyaktuk's Gus Gruben recounted. "He got excited, eh? And he shot his washer-dryer and shot his couch, and he finally shot the bear...

...another 20 years I'll be burying my relatives again," Gus Gruben, 45, the mayor's brother, said sadly as he surveyed...taking away about a meter (3 feet) of Tuk's beach. Gus Gruben remembers waves spraying through classroom windows in...