As a City Council member back then, I supported Measure X and the notion of an independent mayor. I was wrong.

A girl, 13, has died in a house fire in Missouri just weeks after beating cancer, her father has said. The blaze occurred in ...

Gavin Newsom has shifted his image-building efforts into higher gear, bolstering assumptions that he will run for president.

California Gov. Jerry Brown is applauded by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom after delivering the state of the state address on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) ...

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.

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.

BUCKNER, Mo. — It's been a little over a week since an early morning 4th of July house fire took the lives of two near ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, could barely make out the mountains in the distance from his ranch in the city of Williams on Sunday.

Jerry Brown in an archival image seen in “The Disrupter,” part of the “American Masters” series on PBS. (From Kurt Fishback) By Robert Lloyd Television Critic . Sept. 15, ...