President-elect Donald Trump has called on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to "release the water." and claimed FEMA lacked the ...

Now don’t go all weak at the knees and soft in the head when you read this: Gold! In the Mojave Desert! It’s a gold rushlet so far: lots of wishful thinking that half-forgotten old mines still ...

James Marshall kicked off the California gold rush when he spotted some pea-sized bits of gold in a mill raceway. The news brought thousands of prospectors to the area, but neither Marshall nor ...

The native tribes of California lived by hunting and ... It just so happens it was the area where they found the gold at Sutter's Mill along the American River. And this gold strike brought ...

While in the Coloma area, families can also raft the American ... Here, families can learn more about the impact the California Gold Rush had on John Sutter and James Marshall, and can learn ...

The Gold Rush lesson took four years to ... Indigenous people inhabited and relied on the natural resources of the area now ...

And even though hundreds of thousands of pounds were extracted from California during the rush, some modern-day gold hunters are still finding glimmering yellow flakes. Cory Dykstra, a prospector ...

The largest wildfire currently burning in California, known as the Dixie Fire, has destroyed nearly all of the historic Gold Rush town ... tore through the downtown area. Officials say some ...