most didn’t believe the story until an entrepreneur by the name of Sam Brannan walked the streets of the town with a jar filled with gold dust. San Francisco became a ghost town by the spring of ...

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 ...

He’s going from gold bars to prison bars. A teary-eyed Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday for selling out his Senate office to enrich himself — in an infamous ...

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 ...