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.

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 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.

Reporting from Sacramento — Gov. Jerry Brown is massaging the final state budget of his long career, and his No. 1 priority is simple: Don’t leave his successor the same mess he did the last time.

Gov. Jerry Brown, center, responds to a question concerning a compromise plan reached on reducing the state’s prison population, during a Capitol news conference in September 2013.

With the end-of-session rush over and the Legislature out of town, focus in Sacramento now shifts to Gov. Jerry Brown. The fourth-term Democrat has 789 bills to consider this month, according to ...

Gov. Jerry Brown’s prison reforms haven’t lived up to his billing Two inmates are walked from their cells to the medical unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.

It's extremely unlikely that Gov. Jerry Brown of California will run for president in 2016, despite his tease to The Post's Philip Rucker in a story published Wednesday. But, oh, if he did. Such a ...

“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 ...

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jerry Brown Jr. was described by the Colts as a hard-working, caring player who embraced his opportunity Indianapolis Colts senior director of communications Avis Roper ...