{"id":671603,"date":"2026-05-15T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671603\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:23:07","slug":"black-bear-found-wandering-urban-vancouver-is-tranquilized-and-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671603\/","title":{"rendered":"Black bear found wandering urban Vancouver is tranquilized and released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Police in Vancouver say a black bear was tranquilized, &#8220;slept it off, and was released without charges&#8221; after it was seen wandering around the city at night.<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Police in Vancouver say a black bear was tranquilized, &#8220;slept it off, and was released without charges&#8221; after it was seen wandering around the city at night. <\/p>\n<p>They say in a post to social media that officers responded to reports about the bear wandering around Commercial Drive and Grandview Highway last Tuesday, and tracked it down around 1 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The post pn Thursday included a photo of an unconscious bear as well as a video shot from inside a patrol car showing the animal trotting down a city sidewalk, then jumping over a small step beside a building.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the Emergency Response Team helped when the bear appeared to be getting close to people, and the BC Conservation Officer Service was called in to tranquilize the animal.<\/p>\n<p>The post says no one was injured and the bear was released in North Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>While black bears are frequent visitors to Metro Vancouver\u2018s outer municipalities, they are much rarer in the City of Vancouver itself.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Police in Vancouver say a black bear was tranquilized, &#8220;slept it off, and was released without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-671603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}