Bear spotted in West Bench backyard above Penticton<\/p>\n
Published 12:44 pm Thursday, August 27, 2026<\/p>\n
A young bruin was recently spotted in the West Bench area west of Penticton, and warnings remain posted for a bear active in the Wiltse area on the other side of the valley.<\/p>\n
The bear was seen in the backyard of a property on Moorpark Drive in the evening of Aug. 27.<\/p>\n
The City of Penticton issued a warning to the Wiltse area at the start of the month after a bear was reported nearby.<\/p>\n
With bears increasingly active throughout much of the year, residents should avoid leaving out attractants.<\/p>\n
In particular, both the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen and the City of Penticton advise residents to only take out their garbage on the morning of pick-up days, and to store the garbage either indoors or locked in a wildlife-secure container until pick-up day arrives.<\/p>\n
People can report wildlife conflicts or sightings in urban areas to the Conservation Officer Service anytime at 1-877-952-7277.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bear spotted in West Bench backyard above Penticton Published 12:44 pm Thursday, August 27, 2026 A young bruin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-873806","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\/873806","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=873806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}