A rising gold price and Trump policies that favor the domestic mining of minerals are reviving interest in California's ...

Gold prices doubled in the last two years and are now at record highs. And prospectors are once again rushing to California's waterways to see what they yield.

COLOMA, Calif. (AP) -- There's still gold in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, and a new rush is under way to find it. Not since the Great Depression have so many hard-luck people been lured by ...

In Julian, people lined up at the Eagle Mining Company to get a hands-on taste of California’s Gold Rush history, and maybe ...

Tucked away in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills lies a place where time stands still and the 1850s come alive. Columbia ...

Firefighters are battling a fast-moving wildfire in Central California that’s already burned through thousands of acres and damaged and destroyed multiple buildings in a historic Gold Rush town after ...

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the foothills ...

CHINESE CAMP, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...

TUOLUMNE COUNTY — A quick-moving wildfire burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp and the blaze grew without containment ...