It’s been a cherished field trip for Sacramento-area middle-schoolers and their parents for half a century. And on Wednesday, after a tense 24 hours, Sacramento County officials reported that the Sly ...

POLLOCK PINES – In Northern California, it is often considered to be a tradition for area students, but as of lately, fewer students can experience the great outdoors at Sly Park Environmental ...

The threat of invasive golden mussels is leading to new restrictions in the Sly Park Recreation Area to protect drinking water infrastructure. Starting Monday, boat launching on Jenkinson Lake will ...

The Caldor Fire swept with frenzied growth overnight through a largely wooded part of rural El Dorado County in Northern California, putting densely populated parts of the foothills on high alert by ...

Jannah Mahmoud was looking forward to her sixth grade field trip to Sly Park Environmental Education Center. It was a five-day trip starting on March 6, and it has been a rite of passage for thousands ...

The first drowning occurred at around 4:15 p.m. on Monday at Jenkinson Lake in the Sly Park Recreation Area near Pollock Pines. The first drowning occurred at around 4:15 p.m. on Monday at Jenkinson ...

In this Bee photo from May 1995, Monica Hodges has her six grade students stop and survey the tree tops. The group learned that drought and bark beetles had killed about a third of the local pine ...