In 2014, the city of Los Angeles sued AllenCo Energy after residents claimed noxious vapors sickened residents living just ...

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

Dozens of fertilizer bags wept blue fluid onto the forest floor. Irrigation tubes snaked across the craters of empty plant ...

The filing comes months after a judge ordered the company to pay more than $116 million for its role in the 2021 death of ...

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

Visitors come to paddle, picnic, and bike along Folsom Lake, rarely realizing they’re standing on the site of a once-booming Black Gold Rush settlement.

Step into Bodie, a preserved Gold Rush ghost town where weathered buildings, abandoned homes, and quiet streets reveal ...

Calico Ghost Town offers a unique look at California's silver rush. Visit historic mines, explore Old West buildings, and experience authentic frontier life.

Joshua Tree Trail begins at an opening in the fence behind the parking lot’s large sign for Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness.

How the two primary people of the gold discovery in California failed to cash in. On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was discovered on the American River. James Marshall, the first to find it, never made a ...

Hidden beneath Georgia’s landscape, an old gold mine tunnel offers a glimpse into a forgotten chapter of mining history. The tunnel still shows signs of excavation, decay, and the risks miners once ...

When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law in 2021, authorizing more than $11 billion in new funding to reclaim lands and waterways damaged by abandoned coal mines, the people ...