Alaska officially became a state 92 years after the transaction, in January 1959, making it the 49th state. Hawaii became the ...

In the early days of the Gold Rush, most of the area’s mine workers lived in Grass Valley while the owners, bosses and other white-collar people built their upscale Victorian homes in Nevada ...

Back in the 1800s, fortune seekers from around the world descended upon California, lured by the promise of gold buried in riverbeds and mountainsides. Today, there's a new kind of gold rush.

Many people left when gold mining dwindled in the late 1850s. Preservation of its Gold Rush remnants began over a hundred years later as the town became a National Historic Landmark in 1961.

Pier 58, which was originally called Schwabacher’s Wharf, and then Pier 7, has a past covered in grit, gold-dust, and go-getters. This spot is where the Seattle of the 21st century was born.

Decades after the California Gold Rush ended in 1855, a different crop of settlers—including artists, musicians, and LGBTQ+ people —came looking for something other than precious metal.

"Black Gold: Stories Untold," a new immersive art exhibition opening Friday at Fort Point, unearths the overlooked stories of Black Californians from the Gold Rush through Reconstruction.