Denver’s cost of living isn’t going to be decreasing anytime soon, so we don’t blame you if you’ve dreamt of heading for the hills to look for precious metals like Colorado’s prospectors of yore. Here ...

Olga González, a gemologist and communications strategist, examines the urgent global challenge of mercury pollution in ...

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the foothills ...