A fire in San Ramon Wednesday morning severely damaged the historic 19th-century Harlan House, also known as El Nido House, ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

In 1848, gold was discovered in California. Over the next decade, hundreds of thousands of prospectors surged into the state, ...

The gold price is down again this morning (silver is flat so far), as new trade deal news has come out. And to get a breakdown of what's been announced, what might be announced, and the impact on the ...

During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some 150,000 to roughly 31,000, according to the International Indian Treaty Council.

Gold was found near Coloma in 1848 by James W. Marshall, a white carpenter, setting off the California gold rush that saw hundreds of thousands of people from across the nation and outside of the ...

Gold was found in Coloma in 1848, a discovery that set off the California gold rush. White, Asian, and free and enslaved Black people settled in the town in the years that followed.