The teenage victim was identified as Jerilynn Brown, who had beaten osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer, just weeks before ...

Jerilynn Brown and Marc Anthony Young perished following the fire which was is said to have started when the dying embers of ...

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

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 ...

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) ...

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.

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 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.

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 ...

Gov. Jerry Brown’s prison reforms haven’t lived up to his billing Two inmates are walked from their cells to the medical unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.

Reporting from Washington — For Gov. Jerry Brown, the question isn’t why he spent so much time in Washington this week talking about the growing threat of nuclear annihilation — it’s why ...