No one doubts that California firefighters and police officers perform their duties well and deserve our gratitude for their ...

California firefighters say their retirement age puts them at risk of injury and illness. They're asking to lower that date, ...

The California Board of Parole Hearings rescinded their offer of parole to Leslie Closner, who was sentenced to 25 years to life for killing his girlfriend, raping her corpse and eating a part of her ...

Former California Governor Jerry Brown likened President Donald Trump’s immigration tactics to those of Nazi Germany and Joseph Stalin on this week’s edition of Inside California Politics. Brown told ...

Nearly three decades later, Mayor Barbara Lee — a political figure with similar name recognition — has begun a shortened term ...

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 ...

The thought lingered with Jerry Brown, perhaps sustained through the years by an old black-and-white photograph in his state Capitol office. The image is a man with a long, white beard feeding his ...

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.

Reporting from Sacramento — When Gov. Jerry Brown’s final term in office ends next week, he will leave behind a California criminal justice system infused with a new commitment to second ...

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 ...

“We are causing this,” he declared in an interview. By Adam Nagourney LOS ANGELES — Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, could barely make out the mountains in the distance from ...