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 ...

Among Placerville’s many gold rush-era curiosities are rumors of tunnels running up into the brothels and a hotel that saw so much money pass through that it was able to expand with all the gold dust ...

TUOLUMNE COUNTY, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...

Firefighters are battling a series of wildfires that erupted in north-central California after thousands of lightning strikes were reported in the region, prompting evacuations and scorching buildings ...