An early morning fire in Independence left one person dead and two others badly injured, according to the Independence Fire ...

A 13-year-old girl died in a house fire early Friday morning, just two weeks after leaving the hospital after beating a form ...

Independence firefighters are at the scene of a deadly fire Friday morning in the area of N. Lake City Valley Road and E.

Gavin Newsom has shifted his image-building efforts into higher gear, bolstering assumptions that he will run for president.

The costs of leaving the California Environmental Quality Act intact became too high. Newsom confronted the issue squarely, ushering reforms.

Reporting from Oakland — Making a case for reelection, Gov. Jerry Brown said in an interview that he would hold the line on state spending despite “pent-up” demand for more, further boost ...

Must Reads: As Gov. Jerry Brown leaves office, he seems unlikely to retire from the only profession he’s ever known. Gov. Jerry Brown at his ranch near Williams, Calif., in 2017.

“Jerry to me is still the most interesting American politician,” Nathan Gardels, the editor of New Perspectives Quarterly, in Los Angeles, and a longtime friend of Brown’s, told me.“He is ...

Jerry Brown Two is deliberative, and he likes to have it his way," said Republican state Sen. Jim Nielsen, who served in the Legislature from 1978 to 1987 and returned in 2008.

When it came time to decide on a name for the beetle that entomologist Kip Will found in July 2021, he knew he wanted to pay tribute to former California Gov. Jerry Brown. After all, Will, a ...

Jerry Brown was sworn in as California Secretary of State, his first statewide office, in 1971 by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, left. Brown was joined at the ceremony by his parents, ...

Jerry Brown in an archival image seen in “The Disrupter,” part of the “American Masters” series on PBS. (From Kurt Fishback) By Robert Lloyd Television Critic . Sept. 15, ...