Between 1848 and 1855, an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold were extracted from the land — and experts say there’s still ...

“Gold’s all around,” said Manny Goza, a prospector sifting through the Bear River, speaking FOX40 News (1). The fall season ...

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

The Gold Rush was an exciting time in American history. There is a small city in California where you can visit museums and ...

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 near a place called Coloma. In 1839, John Sutter ...

While the days of seeking fortune in a riverbed like John Wayne have come to an end, the nostalgia surrounding Gold Country is still very much alive. In fact, if you know where to look, you can travel ...

Chinese Camp, California saw some of its famed structures burn. A spate of lighting strikes this week ignited a series of wildfires in the Sierra Nevada foothills, including one that damaged multiple ...

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 ...