In Southern California, a long time has passed since our famed citrus crop dominated the landscape. The orange groves have ...

The biggest real estate deal in the history of San Joaquin County was completed for $60 worth of groceries and a white horse.

The Rheola area in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria yielded a 4.01-ounce “nugget” that realized $45,000 in ...

The fire was first reported at 2 p.m. Monday near Bear Valley Road in the Tahoe National Forest south of Sierra Brooks in ...

Gavin Newsom, who spent much of his childhood in the sparsely populated mining community of Dutch Flat in Placer County ... have obliterated some of California's gold rush towns, erasing the ...

A big rig caught fire Friday morning on westbound Interstate 80 in the Gold Run area of Placer County, California Highwya Patrol logs show.The offramp to the Gold Run Rest area was closed.

GOLD HILL – Highway 193 in Placer County was closed Thursday morning and into the afternoon after a logging truck overturned, officials said. The highway was closed in both directions between ...

Kenneth Fox was Placer County born and raised ... “I had to build scaffolding 40 feet high,” Fox told Gold Country Media in 2008. “I had scale models and built from that.

"The gold in pay dirt is placer. There are two types of gold - placer and lode. Lodes are the veins of ore that need to be blasted or mined. Placer happens when a lode deposit is eroded by weather ...

Students dressed in Placer High School’s green and gold sprinted onto the field through ... He is a 14-time award winner from the California Prep Sports Writer Association.

Highway 193 was closed for a period in both directions after a lumber truck overturned in Placer County near Newcastle ... according to California Highway Patrol logs. A fully loaded logging ...