Big Bear Lake News

On Friday, May 18 the world's top professional cyclists will battle it out on a demanding route known as The Big Bear Climb.

The peloton winds along Glendora Ridge Road in the 2011 Amgen Tour of California, stage 7. Photo: Casey B. Gibson The Amgen Tour of California will see new challenges in 2012, including an individual time trial with an eight percent climb.

"I'm pleased to be able to serve again - it's an interesting job," said Kwappenberg, who will be nominated to the County Planning Commission today by 3rd District County Supervisor Neil Derry at this morning's Board of Supervisors meeting.

An adult bald eagle perches near Big Bear Lake in December 2011 during a bald eagle count.

Specials include free lift tickets and accommodations. For example, with the Slopeside Lift and Lodging Package at Mammoth Mountain, stay at least two nights and receive a free lift ticket for each guest per day.

Biologists with the Forest Service and California State Parks are seeking volunteers to help count bald eagles next weekend.

What Big Bear Lake lacks in regular jazz performance it makes up for in natural beauty, but on August 8, the two came together in "Jazz on the Green," a tribute to Nat King Cole.

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. -- Sheriff's deputies arrested a man last week, suspecting he molested at least three young children and they believe he may have more victims.

A 34-year-old Big Bear Lake man is behind bars today in connection with a child molestation case involving a 7-year-old girl that his mother had been baby-sitting, say San Bernardino County sheriff's officials.

A 71-year-old Yucca Valley man is behind bars on $1 million bail and charges that he threatened his estranged wife at gunpoint at her home in the San Bernardino Mountains, sheriff's officials say.

On Jan. 14 the second bald eagle count of the winter was conducted by local Federal and State biologists and volunteers like those pictured around lakes in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains.

SAN JACINTO On Saturday, Jan. 14, the second bald eagle count of the winter was conducted by local federal and state biologists and volunteers around lakes in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains.

San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 43-year-old Fontana man this week after they found evidence linking him to the theft of a Bear Valley Electric service vehicle.

Who knew? Word on the slopes is that some Southern California resorts are host to the best ski conditions in the nation right now.