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 could learn, as Jerry Brown did earlier in his career, that political stunts as governor can haunt a presidential bid.

The Trump administration’s sweeping roundups of undocumented immigrants in Southern California, including the use of National Guard troops and Marines — aimed, at last partially, at depicting ...

California needs $85 billion for public employees' retirement health care. Gov. Newsom's new labor deals pause spending to pre-fund that expense.

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

A key voice against such a foolhardy fiscal move is former Gov. Jerry Brown, who in 2012 championed a law that has employees hired after Jan. 1, 2013 accrue pension benefits under a less generous ...

With the passage of a state budget-related housing bill, the California Environmental Quality Act will be a non-issue for a ...

Andrew Cuomo turned to municipal politics after resigning from New York’s governorship amid a sexual harassment scandal. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown had a more prosaic reason for mounting a run ...

2000-07-22 04:00:00 PDT OAKLAND-- Sometime this week, Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown may be a cause celebre in Havana, chomping on a cigar and rapping with Fidel Castro. That's usually what happens ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislators passed a major reform of the California Environmental Quality Act on Monday. The ...