Regular viewers of the popular Discovery Channel series, “Gold Rush,” know that the show has long featured cast members with Oregon roots. In Season 1, which premiered in 2010, novice miner ...

Veteran miner Ed Hardt, 76, of Baker City said those 10-foot-high tailing piles might still be a rich source of gold because the limited technology of that era couldn't get it all. Karp doubts that.

BAKER, Ore. (AP) – The Discovery Channel show “Gold Rush” is planning to film segments in northeastern Oregon this year. The Baker City Herald reports that the popular reality TV series will ...

Tucked between the Elkhorn and Wallowa mountains in northeastern Oregon, Baker City found form during an 1860s gold rush. Today, its Main Street is home to a strip of recently opened brewpubs ...

Although the Oregon Trail runs near Baker City, it does not go through the town, which was built during the gold rush of the 1860s and during a second, 20-year mining boom from 1890 to 1910, well ...

Once a stop along the Oregon Trail, Baker City became an official town in 1874 after prospectors discovered gold. Between ...