City officials warn of active bear activity in Penticton neighbourhood<\/p>\n
Published 2:29 pm Wednesday, August 5, 2026<\/p>\n
Residents of Penticton\u2019s Wiltse area are asked to keep their garbage carts off the curb overnight due to active bear activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cCity staff will be conducting cart inspections outside of the designated collection times as part of ongoing education and outreach efforts to help reduce wildlife attractants and keep the community safe,\u201d the city said on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s reminder applies to all Penticton residents, it added.<\/p>\n
People are asked to put their carts out the morning of collection day before 7 a.m.<\/p>\n
Other reminders issued by the city:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Rinse carts regularly
\u2022 Freeze smelly items until collection day
\u2022 Carts may only be at the curb between 5 a.m. and 7 p.m. on collection day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City officials warn of active bear activity in Penticton neighbourhood Published 2:29 pm Wednesday, August 5, 2026 Residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-847621","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\/847621","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=847621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}