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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...