Pistachios are growing fast in California, where farmers have been devoting more land to a crop seen as hardier and more ...

Something about the heavy, shiny metal has always attracted mankind. From our earliest history, the lure and acquisition of ...

Planned repairs at a popular historical attraction in Sierra County are on hold as rising costs have outpaced federal and ...

The rapidly growing iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has now blown past one of the biggest funds in an old-school category of ...

California’s Gold Rush of 1848 is often depicted as a time of adventure, opportunity, and transformation. Picture it: waves ...

Among Placerville’s many gold rush-era curiosities are rumors of ... It’s the only city in all of California to own a gold mine. Off Highway 50 on the way to Tahoe, Gold Bug Mine, inside ...

Hume had never been to Kerala, but his curiosity is believed to have been piqued by accounts from British surveyors and ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by many historians to be the most significant event of the first half of the ...

This ‘Great Performances’ presentation observes the staging of John Adams and Peter Sellars’s ‘Girls of the Golden West’ at ...

A rare collection of gold coins dating back over a century has been appraised at a staggering $2 million — which is about ...