The scenery in itself makes it a classic Sunday — or Saturday — drive as you pass through or by historic mining towns such as ...

This weekend, you can step back in time to California’s gold rush era. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park and Gold ...

On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was found in California's American River. Mormon pioneers, members of Mormon Battalion were among the ...

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 ...

Claudius becomes Roman Emperor on the assassination of his nephew Caligula by the Praetorian Guard. 1121: Henry I marries ...

Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma will commemorate the anniversary of James Marshall’s discovery of gold ...

LOS ANGELES—On a typical weekday, lunch hour is bustling at Toscana Brentwood, a popular restaurant with the Hollywood elite where it isn’t uncommon to see Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger ...

Trista Sutter was not fazed by the rumors surrounding her and Ryan Sutter’s marriage while she was appearing on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. “Everyone is quick to assume the worst ...

“One of the things that we have been seeing in California is this kind of whiplash between extreme wet events . . . and then extreme dry events,” Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute ...

Fires have been ripping through the forests and scrublands of California for millennia. Indeed, with its combination of long dry seasons and intense Santa Ana winds, the state is uniquely prone to ...

There are a few select bullpen forefathers who paved the way for baseball's era of late-inning specialization. Bruce Sutter, who passed away at 69, is on that short list of arms who blazed the trail ...

California lawmakers, by and large, are a labor-friendly bunch and, as in past years, they passed a host of new workplace protections that took effect when the new year struck. Instead of breaking ...