Today, his son, Nick Prebalick owns and operates a tour company called California Gold Panning that allows tourists to try their luck at mining for gold. The business helps supplement the families ...

Most of the male population of San Francisco had gone to the mines. The rest of California soon followed. That summer, men like Antonio Franco Coronel, of Los Angeles, dug for gold along side ...

The National Park Service and an Australian company are at odds over an old Mojave Desert gold mine, where the company is seeking to extract rare earth minerals.

It's a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is ...

Former NFL player John Robert Leake was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for defrauding $5M from friends in a ...

Me’s genetic data may be for sale after bankruptcy. AI firms may want in—but privacy fears could make it a toxic asset.

The California gold rush started in 1849 with the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, part of what is now the world-famous ...

In Los Angeles this week a variety show with nine-plus lives and 21 acts was racing merrily toward its its 1,500th performance. As Blackouts of 1943 it was packing them into El Capitan Theater ...

California’s fifth busiest port is 72 nautical miles from the ocean. It’s the Port of Stockton, 16 miles as the crow flies ...

The rock daisy, already listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act, faces mounting threats from gold mining in its region. “A company determined to dig up the Inyo Mountains in ...

Most of the male population of San Francisco had gone to the mines. The rest of California soon followed. That summer, men like Antonio Franco Coronel, of Los Angeles, dug for gold along side ...

Gold mines in Ghana and Alaska, real estate deals in Southern California, Costa Rica and the Middle East. Leake’s pitches to investors were bold and exotic. He swept up six friends and mutual ...