{"id":682861,"date":"2026-05-20T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682861\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:27:26","slug":"bear-warning-issued-along-highway-40-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682861\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Warning issued along Highway 40 corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bear warning has been issued west of Cochrane along Highway 40 from King Creek to Highwood Junction due to increased bear activity.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say multiple sightings have been reported, with bears and other wildlife using the roadway as a travel corridor because of late spring conditions.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES:<\/p>\n<p>The advisory affects several recreation areas, including Highwood Pass, Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park, Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, and surrounding day-use sites in Kananaskis Country.<\/p>\n<p>Hikers and visitors are being reminded to travel in groups, make noise, keep pets on a leash, and carry bear spray that is easily accessible. Officials also urge people to secure food and scented items and report any sightings.<\/p>\n<p>The warning remains in effect until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bear warning has been issued west of Cochrane along Highway 40 from King Creek to Highwood Junction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-682861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682861","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=682861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}