It’s a balmy day in Jamestown, in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, and the second-generation miner is ...

The California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s transformed the United States population as gold seekers ventured out to the West Coast in search of the precious metal in the Golden State's rivers and ...

Among Placerville’s many gold rush-era curiosities are rumors of tunnels running up into the brothels and a hotel that saw so much money pass through that it was able to expand with all the gold dust ...

Have you heard the news? After this year’s storms, California is glittering with gold. Gold here, gold there, gold everywhere. As the theory goes, there is, or will soon be, an abundance of ...

With the record rainfall over the winter and wildfires of recent years, treasure hunters are again combing the loosened rocks and soil of California for gold, according to reports. The original Gold ...

One of nearly two dozen fires burning across Northern California on Wednesday scorched homes in a Gold Rush town settled in the 1850s by thousands of Chinese miners who had faced discrimination and ...

COLOMA, CA ‒ Ankle-deep in a stream, James W. Marshall bent over and grabbed a shiny object that caught his eye. He placed it on a rock and began striking it with another. The shiny material pounded ...