Think of the places you need to experience to say you know California: the Golden Gate, Half Dome, the curves of Highway 1 at Big Sur. Add this one, the Gold Country — the area bounded roughly ...

While it may be small, this historic California city has no shortage of charming shops, restaurants, museums about the Gold ...

Several different counties make up Gold Country and Calaveras County, home of the jumping frogs made famous by Mark Twain, is a good base. It is located 350 miles north of Los Angeles and 75 miles ...

Not far from vineyards, hiking trails, and Gold Rush historical sites, this California town is attracting outdoorsy retirees, ...

One of Gold Country’s oldest and richest mines — more than 165 tons of gold were extracted before it closed in 1956 — today the Empire is a California State Historic Park on 856 wooded acres.

One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues to lead the U.S. in gold production and discovery. The spirit of the original forty-niners who tilled the land lives on in those ...

JAMESTOWN, Tuolumne County (KPIX 5) -- Weeks of rainy weather across Northern California and the storm runoff through the hills of gold country have triggered a new gold rush.

Some unexpected news from all this wet weather: California's back-to-back storms may have actually sparked another gold rush. Mark Dayton, a metal detector expert, found a supposed $750 treasure.

Part of the Saddle Ridge hoard of gold coins found by a Northern California couple were displayed at the National Money Show in Marietta, Ga., on Feb. 27.

Many of the coins found in the Saddle Ridge Hoard, as it has been dubbed, are among the first $20 gold pieces ever minted to bear the words "In God We Trust." As such, they have a special place in ...