On a quiet Saturday evening in Nevada County, California, a 15-year-old boy risked his life for his two dogs—and ended up ...

A California teen had to be rescued by a specialized team after becoming trapped in an abandoned mine shaft trying to save ...

This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century ...

Many other states fund their abandoned-mine programs through coal-mine taxes. But Arizona, California and Nevada produce little or no coal. “If you don’t have any coal mines in your state ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will seek to energize activists at Democratic state conventions in South Carolina and California on ...

Some believe the desert is silent. They picture a vast mute nothing, hot enough to grill a steak on your vehicle’s hood and ...

This year’s gold and silver legislative push comes roughly a decade after Texas created the country’s first state-run ...

After the Maserati slammed into a parked pickup and tree on a Del Mar street, the driver fled. More than a half hour passed ...

TV producer Jude Hope Harris was married with two young kids, living in Los Angeles, when a night of binge-watching upended ...