{"id":875161,"date":"2026-08-29T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875161\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:10:09","slug":"vernon-rcmp-advise-caution-after-reports-of-a-bear-in-the-pleasant-valley-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875161\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernon RCMP advise caution after reports of a bear in the Pleasant Valley neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be bear aware<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Residents are also encouraged to report bear sightings and conflicts to the Conservation Officer Service (COS) at 1-877-952-7277.\" class=\"large_overlay\" limg=\"\/content\/2026\/8\/large\/bear_black_p4297961.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bear_black_p4297961.jpg\" style=\"height:423px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: File<\/p>\n<p>Residents are encouraged to report bear sightings and conflicts to the Conservation Officer Service (COS) at 1-877-952-7277.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon North Okanagan RCMP are advising residents to exercise caution following multiple bear sightings along Pleasant Valley Road.<\/p>\n<p>Const. Chris Terleski, media relations officer with the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP, confirmed police received several reports of a bear in the 2300 block of Pleasant Valley Road on Friday, Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Residents and anyone in the area are asked to be aware, keep their distance, and not approach or try to interact with the animal if they see it,&#8221; Terleski said, who added that the animal has not shown aggressive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The BC Conservation Officer Service has been notified and is aware of the sightings, though police noted it is currently unknown if the bear remains in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Be bear aware Photo: File Residents are encouraged to report bear sightings and conflicts to the Conservation Officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-875161","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\/875161","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=875161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}