Roman Lewett’s mystery began when his father’s Boston Whaler broke down as he was piloting it to a fishing spot just west of the Golden Gate Bridge. Lewett, 25, chucked the anchor overboard, and his ...

The allure of gold continued to draw prospectors to Southern California, with new mining camps like Prospect Bar and ...

Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated Arctic island, has been transformed by the climate crisis in recent decades.

In the 1890s, the industrial revolution arrived in the form of the centrifugal cream separator. Fed into a bowl spinning at 6 ...

Ah, but — and you should remember this for “Jeopardy!” — the Golden State’s first documented gold strike happened here, in ...

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 ...

A historic 14,000-acre Northern California ranch established around the time of the Gold Rush has hit the real estate market ...

Extractable water near the south pole of our closest celestial neighbor promises a new spark for future space explorers.

In Gold Rush Season 15, Episode 11, Parker Schnabel achieves his best cleanup yet after a bold triple-wash plant strategy.

California enacted Assembly Bill 1821 (AB 1821) last week, mandating the inclusion of Native American history and ...

A weekend getaway to Gold Country offers a peek at railroad lore at Railtown 1897, Gold Rush history in Columbia and plenty ...