Abandoned, rusted cars and machinery can be found across the ghost town, heightening the eerie atmosphere of a once vibrant ...

Black Miners Bar at Folsom Lake marks the site of a once-booming Gold Rush settlement built by Black miners seeking freedom and opportunity.

The 5th Annual California Days will roll into Calico Ghost Town in Yermo on Valentine’s Day weekend. The event, on Feb. 14 ...

A man experiencing homelessness was arrested in California's historic gold country after he allegedly dug a mine on private property.

The Salton Sea has long been a place of eerie beauty and environmental contradiction. In Gabriel B. Wisdom’s latest no ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics are bringing thousands of athletes from around the world together for more than two weeks of competition — and the Games are a gold mine for statistics.

At the dawn of the 20th century, dusk was approaching for the narrow gauge (3 feet or smaller between the rails) fad that ...

Ken Martin has one of those resting dread faces, as if he’s bracing for someone to dump a bucket of rocks on his head. His ...

Winter doesn’t just change California - it reveals a completely different version of it. As snow settles on high mountain passes and coastal storms reshape the shoreline, the state’s most iconic roads ...

You don’t have to speak Spanish to understand that Bad Bunny’s blockbuster Super Bowl halftime show was a powerful one: ...

The Jan. 24 anniversary of the California Gold Rush came and passed this year with little mention … for good reason.