Emerald Bay today offers a Boat Camp on its north shoreline which is accessed publicly only by boat, or on foot via the Rubicon Trail. A pier and several mooring buoys are visible in this current color photo, plus there are campsites on land. Part of an “official vehicles only” access road is visible diagonally […]
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By Kathryn Reed It may not be a paramedic doing chest compressions when the ambulance arrives. Instead, it could be Auto-Pulse. “It has definitely been a game changer in how we run our CPR calls,” South Lake Tahoe firefighter Scott Blasser told Lake Tahoe News. “Auto-Pulse will provide more consistent profusion pressure across the board.” […]
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The El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Division is offering back-to-school immunizations for eligible children. Public Health can provide all childhood vaccinations required for school entry, as well as those vaccinations that are recommended to keep children healthy. Schools are required to verify each child’s immunization record to make sure all […]
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By Sophie Kissinger, Huffington Post Last week, a woman died and nearly a dozen were injured on a roller coaster at Six Flag Over Texas. With all the amusement parks and roller coasters in California, the tragedy made us ask: Could this happen in California? To great relief, we found that California has more safeguards […]
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By Melissa Clark, Los Angeles Times Ripe summer corn is as sweet as many of the fruits we habitually make into dessert, but rarely do we see it at the end of the meal. This isn’t at all true in Mexico, where corn ice cream is a year-round tradition. Or in Vietnam and Thailand, where […]
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Two new laws that went into effect in Nevada this month are sparking a lot of interest, especially among those involved with the local foods movement. The laws provide farmers, home growers, home cooks and others with increased opportunities to produce and sell their products locally, as well as to hold dinners featuring their homegrown […]
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By Becky Oskin, LiveScience Pesticides from California’s valley farms are collecting in the tissues of a singing treefrog that lives in pristine national parks, including Yosemite and Giant Sequoia, a study finds. The chemicals include two fungicides never before found in wild frogs, said Kelly Smalling, lead study author and a U.S. Geological Survey research […]
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By Kendra Kostelecky, KOLO-TV Controversy remains in an Incline Village neighborhood after a bear and her three cubs were trapped and relocated. Locals who named the bear Jasper say she was not the intended target. The young male nuisance bear is suspected of breaking into as many as a dozen home in the area. Some […]
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Attempts to resuscitate a 13-year-old girl who had stopped breathing at Camp Sacramento were unsuccessful. El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies were called to the area along Highway 50 in the American River canyon about 10:40pm on July 26. The girl was taken by ambulance to Barton Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 12:30 […]
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By Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration proposed sweeping new rules on Friday that would require food importers like Walmart and Cargill to make sure that their foreign growers and processors were following American food safety standards to prevent contamination in an increasingly globalized food supply. About 15 percent […]
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