A former switching station for travelers along the old Oregon-to-California Trail, the property is a peaceful retreat.

With state funding, the Jamestown Gateway and Main Street Revitalization Project is completed, improving the area for locals ...

A small town in New Jersey was crowned one ... the carpenter who discovered gold in California in 1848 to spark the Gold Rush. It now serves as the Lambertville Historical Society’s headquarters.

The first mineral deposits were found in the area's California ... towns like Dodge City or Tombstone, but it certainly played a pivotal role during the transformative gold and silver rush eras ...

Six years before the famed California Gold Rush of 1848, another discovery of gold had already taken place in Santa Clarita’s ...

The meticulously research book presents an unvarnished look at the good times and bad days in the Golden State which ...

California’s black bears are clever, resourceful and opportunistic. They eat anything and everything — fruits, nuts, insects, human food and pet food. They love bird feeders. They poach ...

As a winter storm arrived in Southern California Thursday, mountain communities were hit with heavy snowfall, creating dangerous driving conditions. Travelers making their way through San ...

Truckee, California, a Sierra Nevada town near the Nevada-California border that receives an average annual snowfall of 206.6 inches, was named the third snowiest town in the country by The ...

Cusick said Prescott reminds her of growing up in California. "It's a very western town in the mountains of Arizona," she said, noting that Prescott is surrounded by a national forest. Prescott ...