Coming in at less than a third of a square mile, say hello to Amador City, billed as "California's Smallest Hometown." For a place so small in one of California's most underrated, affordable regions, ...

If you don’t normally frequent the charming Sierra foothill towns of California’s Gold Country, you might miss Amador City. But this tiny town — at a third of a square mile, it’s the smallest city in ...

For most people, Northern California calls to mind windswept beaches and towering Redwoods or perhaps the sunny slopes of the Sierra Nevadas. But between the green expanses of the Central Valley and ...

Matt Andrae is sipping a latte on the back deck of his eponymous bakery, the burble of a flowing creek filling the air behind him. “I grew up in Amador County,” he says. “Even so, before we started ...