The way you have to approach the political process is something like piloting a canoe,” Brown once said. “If you stand up on one side you’ll fall in. If you stand up on the other side you’ll fall in.

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.

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 with, from left, Assemblyman Phil Ting, Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Sen. Holly Mitchell as he signs the California budget Wednesday.

Jerry Brown, right, and his father, Edmund G. Pat Brown, acknowledge the crowd at the California Democratic Party’s convention in Los Angeles on April 11, 1992.

Unlike his action-hero predecessor, Jerry Brown never warned, “I’ll be back.” And yet, remarkably, here he is, back for a third term as California governor. At his inaugural Monday, he will ...

Gov. Jerry Brown offers a glimpse of his Northern California ranch, a place where he contemplates not only the past but also his own future after a final year in office.

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Jerry Brown with several scientists, including Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, far left, and Christiana Figueres, the top United Nations official on climate change ...