Everyone knows Sutter’s Mill, but few know that gold was discovered in Placerita Canyon six years earlier. This video ...

WA's Goldfields have proved irresistible to many for more than a century, but a recent lucrative find has sparked renewed interest and a largely untapped tourism market is emerging as a result.

About a decade before silver was discovered in Nevada, the West’s first consequential mining boom occurred on the other side of the Sierra Nevada.

Getty Images/iStockphoto Three people have been arrested and charged after a rock hunter found a 41-year-old man’s body buried in a shallow grave, California deputies say.

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

Seven people were "unaccounted for" in Yolo County's town of Esparto after several explosions at a fireworks warehouse resulted in a fire, officials said.

Also, from the Roebling Collection, the largest gold nugget found in many years near Greenville, Plumas County, California, at Union Placer Mine, owned by two old miners, Joe Dacoala and Bill Roedde.

Petaluma’s farm-to-table trend dates all the way back to the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s. It’s still a culinary treasure with a historic downtown and easy access to the coast and ...

Mauricio Pochettino craved a group that would lean into its emotions when needed, and the U.S. has done that en route to the Gold Cup semis ...

Nevada City and Grass Valley, siblings in Gold Country near Sacramento, have been drawing more visitors than ever.

Her adult daughter, Breland Kiefer, was swimming at Tanana Lakes Recreation Area and forgot to take off her grandfather’s gold ring — the only thing she cherished that she had inherited from him when ...