{"id":840413,"date":"2026-09-08T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840413\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:00:15","slug":"drivers-in-central-nm-urged-to-watch-out-for-bears-after-several-killed-in-last-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840413\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers in central NM urged to watch out for bears after several killed in last few weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers in central NM urged to watch out for bears after several killed in last few weeks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/96644900-1312-4ac8-bb68-5c0698a01548_1741980420.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Amari Saxton\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Digital Assignment Editor<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Drivers in central New Mexico are urged to use caution after several bears were killed by vehicles on I-25 in the last few weeks. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Officials say four bears were killed on I-25 near Bernalillo in the last two weeks. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koat.com\/article\/four-bears-hit-and-killed-on-i-25\/73312691\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Four bears hit and killed on I-25 &#8211; KOAT<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Wildlife officials say bears can cross the road at any time, whether day or night, so drivers should stay alert, avoid distractions, and be ready to hit the brakes.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">If you see an injured bear, do not approach it and contact wildlife officials instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers in central NM urged to watch out for bears after several killed in last few weeks Digital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7438,14713,19122,191003,29362,355857,355854,275,26826,10112,33773,355856,355855,6319,2862,79,355858,2384,10129,201],"class_list":["post-840413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bear","tag-bear-safety","tag-bears","tag-bernalillo","tag-caution","tag-central-new-mexico","tag-central-nm","tag-day","tag-distraction","tag-driver","tag-drivers","tag-koat-wildlife-official","tag-last-few-week","tag-night","tag-road","tag-science","tag-several-bear","tag-time","tag-vehicle","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840413","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=840413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}