The pictures we conjure of gold mining are usually cartoonish – old prospectors in floppy hats, panning creeks or working away with a pickaxe. Rarely do we imagine anything like the Sumpter Valley ...

Not long ago in the old Sumpter Valley, a mechanical beast the size of an apartment building spent its days plodding along the stream beds, eating the valley floor. As it dug itself ever deeper into ...

The more you get to know the Oregon State Park system, the better you like it. The big campgrounds on the Oregon coast often spring to mind first, but the network of state parks is quite diverse, as ...

Call it a history lesson paved in gold. A Yuba City man, 94, sent a letter to CBS Sacramento inviting us to tour something that played a big part in his life and the region — a gold dredge. One of the ...

It was over a decade ago when Emily Riedel came to Nome, Alaska during the summer in hopes of getting enough gold to fund her opera studies. Her childhood friend, Zeke Tenhoff, suggested she could ...