A quick-moving wildfire has burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven ...

The historic gold rush town of Chinese Camp has been devastated by one of multiple lightning-sparked wildfires in three ...

The moment you round that final curve on Highway 49 and spot Amador City nestled in the Sierra foothills, your modern worries start dissolving like sugar in hot coffee – this is what California looked ...

California designated Chinese Camp as a state historical landmark in 1949; its population today numbers less than 100 people, ...

Crews appear to be making progress in extinguishing a series of lightning-sparked fires as they begin to assess damage in the ...

A wave of lightning-sparked wildfires burned across the Sierra Nevada foothills of Central California on Wednesday, torching dry hillsides and threatening historic Gold Rush-era towns as fire crews ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is deploying 641 incarcerated firefighters to aid Cal Fire in ...

A quick-moving wildfire has burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven ...

"These were really spectacular buildings that told an important part of the history of our state. And now that's gone." ...

A wildfire in Tuolumne County destroyed part of Chinese Camp’s Gold Rush history, damaging its 1854 post office but sparing a ...