when authorities ordered the entire town evacuated. Flames had gotten within a mile of central Mariposa, the county seat whose history dates to the mid-19th century California Gold Rush.

A fast-moving wildfire forced residents of the historic Gold Rush town of Mariposa to flee Thursday evening. The French Fire started around 6:30 p.m. Thursday north of town. By the small hours of ...

While the French fire destroyed four homes, firefighters were able to save the unique gold rush town of Mariposa. Skyview30 video shows how close the flames came to Mariposa County High School.

MARIPOSA, Calif. (AP) — An aggressive wildfire sweeping through California foothills covered with dense brush and trees destroyed dozens of homes but spared a historic Gold Rush-era town popular ...

Life for residents and merchants in and around the Sierra foothills community of Mariposa began returning ... visitors back to the popular Gold Country town and allowing more evacuees to come ...

The fire is crawling along," fire spokesperson Brandon Vaccaro said on Saturday. Flames spared Mariposa, a historic Gold Rush-era town, but more than 60 nearby homes and about 64 other buildings were ...

The blistering, relentlessly hot start to California’s summer took another alarming turn Friday, as a wildfire threatened to burn the Sierra Nevada town of Mariposa, a historic Gold Rush ...

The historic Gold Rush town of Mariposa and an entry point for Yosemite National Park are threatened by the French Fire. A firefighter extinguishes hotspots along a hillside during the French ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif ... For people who live in the Gold Rush-era town like Jacob Hawley, the expected storm is nothing new. "A lot of us here in the mountains prepare by getting our generators ...

This string of former mining towns in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada burst onto the scene in 1848 during the fabled gold rush. Then, the first glinting rock was discovered in the ...

when authorities ordered the entire town evacuated. Flames had gotten within a mile of central Mariposa, the county seat whose history dates to the mid-19th century California Gold Rush.