{"id":662126,"date":"2026-05-24T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662126\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T10:42:13","slug":"mother-bear-cub-spotted-in-wausau-neighborhood-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662126\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother bear, cub spotted in Wausau neighborhood tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1EL8xBn5VF\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1EL8xBn5VF\/\">Wausau Police<\/a> are urging people to avoid walking near the 700 block of Forest Street near downtown Wausau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police have received several reports of a black bear and her cub. They ask people to stay away from the area so as not to stress the bears and keep everyone safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lt. Nate Stetzer of the Wausau Police Department tells NewsChannel 7 they will continue to monitor the animals. He said the police and the Wisconsin DNR will not intervene or try to push the animals out of the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Two bears spotted in a Wausau neighborhood\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WPXJ6B6BYBGFPKQ2OUPYWL5IXE.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Two bears spotted in a Wausau neighborhood(WSAW)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story. NewsChannel 7 will update this article once more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsaw.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsaw.com\/page\/apps\/\">Click here<\/a> to download the WSAW news app or WSAW First Alert weather app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsaw.com\/page\/submit-a-news-tip\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsaw.com\/page\/submit-a-news-tip\/\">Click here<\/a> to submit a news tip or story idea.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WSAW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) &#8211; Wausau Police are urging people to avoid walking near the 700 block of Forest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[16638,289785,289784,289786,79,289783,201],"class_list":["post-662126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-black-bear","tag-downtown-wausau","tag-forest-street","tag-mother-bear-and-cub","tag-science","tag-wausau","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}