Because of the visions of William Heath Davis, Jr. and later, Alonzo Horton, we can all enjoy America’s Finest City.

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from ...

Prospectors came to Nevada City for gold, but the forested community has become an enduring oasis for artists, musicians, and ...

Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California's Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.

The Yurok Tribe had 90% of its territory taken during the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, suffering massacres and ...