About bigbear.news

The mountain talks. We listen.

bigbear.news exists because a small mountain community deserves to know what's happening on its own mountain. Road conditions before you leave the driveway. Council votes that affect your neighborhood. The fire danger level today, not yesterday. Events this weekend. The restaurant that just opened on the boulevard.

We aggregate over 30 local sources — government agencies, weather services, event calendars, safety dispatches, real estate feeds — and deliver them to you in one place. No paywalls. No algorithms deciding what you should care about. Just the mountain, telling you what it knows.

What the mountain knows

The mountain has been here longer than any of us. It knows when the snow is coming before the forecast does. It knows which trails are passable and which roads need chains. It watches the lake level rise and fall with the seasons. It was here for every council meeting, every fire, every first snowfall.

bigbear.news is how the mountain shares what it knows with the people who live here. Every daily briefing, every conditions update, every event listing is the mountain catching you up on what happened while you were sleeping, working, or shoveling your driveway.

Read local. Fund local.

One percent of all bigbear.news revenue goes directly back to Big Bear Valley. Trail maintenance. Fire relief. School programs. The food pantry. The volunteer organizations that keep this community running when the tourists go home.

We track revenue through Stripe and select causes quarterly — always local, always tangible, always things that make life better for the people who stay.

As bigbear.news grows, so does the giving. This is a commitment, not a campaign.

Built by a resident

bigbear.news was built by someone who lives here. Not a media company. Not a tech startup. Just a neighbor who got tired of checking six different websites to find out if chains were required on 18.

The mountain deserves better infrastructure than scattered Facebook groups and outdated tourism sites. So we built it. For the people who stay.