I t's been a tough end of 2024 for Gold Rush's Rick Ness.On October 19 he announced the passing of his beloved dog Rubi, by sharing a message from his longtime partner, Leese Mae Arie, on Instagram.

In Gold Rush Season 15, Episode 3, Rick Ness confronts one of his most difficult challenges yet at Duncan Creek. With his water license set to expire at the end of the season, Ness is racing ...

Rick Ness: I guess with music I always looked at it as a networking opportunity and I guess that’s what I saw there with Parker. I knew I was in Haines, Alaska. I’d never been there before.

Rick Ness is a musician on hiatus these days, but that doesn’t mean his music days are over. Pic credit: Discovery. Gold Rush’s latest miner Rick Ness is a breakout favorite among viewers.

Rick Ness: Well, this was an interesting one, I'll tell you that. I mean, we were just as affected as everybody by COVID. I can only speak for myself personally, ...

Everyone deals with loss differently, but when Rick Ness's mother died from cancer at age 55 in 2018, the Gold Rush star struggled mightily to find his footing in the months and years that ...

After six months of long work days in remote parts of Alaska, Milwaukee's Rick Ness is back home and back in the driver's seat on season 5 of Discovery Channel's Gold Rush.This season has new ...

Gold miner Rick Ness has found his feet after a tough year mining in the Upper Duncan cut two years ago. He went into debt, had suffered some personal loss, and was at the edge of throwing it all ...

The big story is the return of Rick Ness, gone for a year but not forgotten. Bumps in his road created a situation, and without belaboring the obvious, Ness had some sorting out and shaping up to do.

The show will follow fan favorites including Tony Beets, Rick Ness, Dave Turin, Fred Lewis and Dustin Hurt during the "high-stakes gambles of the gold mining offseason for the first time.

Rick Ness, Ryan Kent and Kyle Lawson on 750 Excavator during build. (Discovery Channel) It seems going into the next episode you’re wrestling with what to do next.

Rick Ness and crew together. (Discovery Channel) After striking out for the last six weeks, Ness turned to ground he initially thought was too risky to mine.