Gold Nugget Days kicked off with another scream-filled queen contest at the Paradise Performing Arts Center Thursday evening.

PARADISE — The ridge has a new Gold Nugget Queen and her name is Caroline McCann. The Paradise native was named the 2012 Gold Nugget Queen during the annual queen contest at the Paradise Performing Arts Center Thursday night.

PARADISE — A few men dragged a 54-pound gold nugget into Magalia 153 years ago, and people on the ridge still throw a parade to celebrate.

The Ridge has a new Gold Nugget Queen and her name is Caroline McCann. The Paradise native was named the 2012 Gold Nugget Queen during the annual queen contest at the Paradise Performing Arts Center Thursday night.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries, leading retailer and auctioneer of premium collectible coins, currency and precious metals, and division of Spectrum Group International, Inc. , tomorrow will unveil its first GOLD to go™ ATM machine at the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City, N.J.

A few men dragged a 54-pound gold nugget into Magalia about 153 years ago, and people in Paradise still throw parades to celebrate.

Crowds of people lined Skyway Saturday for the annual Gold Nugget Days parade. Classic cars, dancing dice, military veterans, bagpipers, horses pulling carriages, dogs driving cars, not-so-camera-shy clampers and everything in between were featured in the parade this year.

Gold Nugget Pawn LLC is seeking permission to open a pawn shop and second-hand store at 1747 W. Main St. The Kalamazoo Township Planning Commission will consider the application, and residents have a chance to address the commission, at an 8:15 p.m. public hearing Thursday.

Scientists are on an epic treasure hunt for meteorite fragments from a spectacular fireball that lit up the daytime sky over California last month.

[ Watch the Video ] Meteorite fragments were recently scattered around Sutter’s Mill in California. This is the same region where the first gold nugget was found that sparked the Gold Rush in 1848. Scientists hope the meteorites may hold answers to unsolved mysteries about our solar system and the origins of molecules necessary for life. When the Gold Rush began, people headed to California ...