YREKA, Calif. — The last time so much gold was pulled out of this town, the place was known as “the richest square mile on earth,” a Gold Rush jewel north of California’s Mother Lode. By the mid-1850s ...

Patrick Fischer had no idea last year he was helping solve the mystery of a $1.26 million gold heist that robbed a Northern California town of its treasure and historic pride. Three hundred miles from ...

Brett Duncan, owner of a tavern in Yreka, sure wasn't happy when he learned that an Indian casino would be setting up shop in his cozy but struggling North State town, the seat of Siskiyou County.

You may never have heard the name Ralph Starritt, but if you've driven in far Northern California on Interstate 5, you know his work. The giant metal cows that stand in a grassy space along the ...

Heading south to the town of Etna, California, with a quick stop in the town of Yreka. On this Episode of All Across Oregon, we're heading south to the town of Etna, California, with a quick stop in ...

The McKinney Fire along California’s border with Oregon exploded in size Saturday to 80 square miles and forced the evacuations of more than 2,000 people in the Siskiyou County community of Yreka.

Yreka, a Gold Rush town in the northern California county of Siskiyou, is one of the more oddly-named (in an orthographic sense) cities in California. Explanations for the unusual spelling range from ...

Yreka Community Day is a public school located in Yreka, CA, which is in a distant town setting. The student population of Yreka Community Day is 4 and the school serves 4-8.The school’s minority ...