Firefighters respond to the 181-acre Bonanza Fire in El Dorado County. Cal Fire says forward progress has stopped.

In the Venezuelan mining community of El Dorado, the majority of residents carry around gold instead of cards or cash to pay ...

They live in a town named after the mythical City of Gold and untold riches -- but most of them are poor. Merchants use scales to carefully weigh the flecks people guard in plastic pill bottles or ...

The legend of El Dorado endures because "you want it to be true," says Jose Oliver, a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. "I don't think we've ever stopped ...