Two tourists who climbed down a cliff near San Francisco seeking a dropped phone had to be rescued, California firefighters ...

Mary Lou Dieterich Elementary School, 2412 Warm Springs Road in Modesto, had two major violations May 13. Live cockroaches ...

The nugget had to be broken into smaller pieces in order for its total weight to be calculated. The two men who discovered it were given just under £10,000, and the gold was melted down.

PARADISE, Calif. - The Gold Nugget Days parade in Paradise brought joy despite the rain. The event celebrated the historic 54-pound gold nugget found in 1859. The parade was emceed by Action News Now ...

An Australian couple was searching for gold using a metal detector in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in 1979 when they uncovered the largest gold nugget found in the region in the previous 50 years. Coming ...

Shinn struck gold almost 100 years after the first big nugget was found on John Reed’s land ... It operated decades before people flocked to California for that state’s gold rush, according ...

Paradise, which got its start with the California gold rush of the ... fame was the discovery in 1859 of a 54-pound gold nugget, the largest ever found in North America. Later, Paradise became ...

Ed Allen, a historian at the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, said that only 10% to 15% of the gold in California has been found ... out a 3 ½-ounce gold nugget from the nearby ...