More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California ... New York to San Francisco to open a dry goods business during the gold rush.

The company's stock price has similarly soared, and its total market value quickly passed rivals like Intel, Microsoft and ...

“It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold,” Marshall later would say. News of the riches would soon spread beyond across the United States, kick-starting a wave of mass migration to ...

Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and by the end of the decade it was over. But not its impact: The Gold Rush may ...

The minimum waiting time to load gold out of the Bank of England, which stores gold for central banks, has reached four weeks, one of the sources said. In normal times, the release time is a few days ...

Journal Editorial Report: Congress may demand changes in California. Photo: Allison Dinner/Shutterstock The battle to contain the recent wildfires in Los Angeles calls to mind New York City’s ...

Investigators are still trying to determine what started a fire that raged through Altadena, Calif. A new video appears to show sparking on a power line near the origin of the blaze. New evidence ...

Kennedy once again betrays his ignorance about Medicaid. “The premiums are too high, the deductibles are too high, and everybody’s getting sicker,” he said. But Medicaid has no premiums or ...