In a victory for the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe and their conservation and environmental justice allies, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday rejected the SMP Gold Corp ... approvals under ...

At the bottom of a giant lake in Southern California ... Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, once called the Salton Sea the “Saudi Arabia of lithium mining.” Furthermore, Imperial ...

(KSWB/KUSI) — A preliminary 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook Southern California at ... Paul Nelson, owner of the Eagle Mining Co., an old-fashioned gold mine in Julian where visitors can learn ...

California’s early statehood was defined by the gold rush that started in the late 1840s, giving us the name “49ers.” Miners hoping to strike it rich flocked to Northern California from ...

The Inyo rock daisy is a rare wildflower found only at the highest elevations of the southern Inyo ... extinction crisis, and California has more imperiled species than any state. It would be an ...