News
Community news from Big Bear Valley, cited and current.
A meteor blazed across the sky above Big Bear Valley in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and Friends of Big Bear Valley's live eagle nest camera recorded the moment for viewers watching Shadow and Kaydee's home.
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The veteran-led disaster response group is targeting dead trees left by the Radford and Line fires to cut wildfire fuel and open firefighter access along South Shore trails.
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The zoo announced Sunday the loss of all three of its flying squirrels, including Lichen, who had been battling an untreatable tumor behind her eye.
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The California State Senate unanimously passed Senate Resolution 140, proclaiming September 4, 2026, as California Wildlife Day in memory of Big Bear's beloved bald eagle, as the community gathers to mark her legacy.
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The lake that draws millions of visitors is actually a reservoir with a single-arch granite dam beneath its surface — one that a local historical marker once called the world's largest man-made lake.
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Park owner Mike Wayman renamed Fawn Park to Fawnskin Freedom Park and dedicated a 9/11 I-beam alongside the carving — while a second, separately organized tribute from Friends of Big Bear Valley and Visit Big Bear is set for Oct. 3.
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A full-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial visited Big Bear Lake on September 25, giving veterans, students, and residents a rare chance to see 58,000 names — including those of people from this valley — without making the trip to Washington, D.C.
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The Mountain Rim Fire Safe Council pushed back its 2026 registration cutoff after a surge of county fire-abatement notices left many property owners scrambling to clear brush before the original deadline.
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The eagle, who hatched at Big Bear Lake in 2012, drew a global following and became a symbol of local wildlife conservation over her 13-year life.
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After two earlier medication take-back programs were shut down, Breakthrough Task Force is distributing Deterra deactivation pouches — with no limit per household — so residents can safely destroy unused prescriptions at home.
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The organization says the pouches deactivate leftover medications, keeping them out of the wrong hands and away from Big Bear's watershed.
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Friends of the Big Bear Alpine Zoo and DIY Home Center have spent three years turning unsellable plants into zoo beautification and fresh produce for the animals.
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The free, three-hour event at Destination Big Bear will let residents hear directly from candidates seeking seats on local boards and agencies — but which races will be represented has not yet been announced.
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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and partners reintroduced more than 3,000 frogs and tadpoles in 2026 alone, with Big Bear Valley's Bluff Lake among the southern California release sites.
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna pushed a five-month community fundraiser past its goal, blocking a luxury development on the last undisturbed shoreline on the lake.
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A Detroit-born Air Force veteran whose aerospace career spanned landmark space missions, Delgado will be celebrated at a Celebration of Life in Big Bear Lake on September 22.
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The Third District's Rowe Report rounds up upcoming events and county services across San Bernardino County, with a Big Bear Valley focus on the approaching Job and Resource Fair.
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The Ontario Tower Buzzers honored Big Bear's beloved bald eagle with a community night that brought her caregivers, fans, and the nonprofit behind her livestream together for the first time since her death.
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Dr. Johnson helped build Bear Valley Community Hospital into a cornerstone of mountain healthcare after arriving in Big Bear Lake in 1977.
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Founded five years ago and now run entirely on community donations, the Big Bear Community Pet Food Pantry distributes hundreds of pounds of dog and cat food each month at two valley locations — and it needs your help to keep going.
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