Lawmakers love to say budgets are “statements of values.” But in our state government, here’s a more apt description: They’re ...

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

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 ...

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

Deep in the recesses of Jerry Brown’s mind, there seems to be an anecdote or a philosopher’s teaching for most every quandary faced by an elected official. Which explains why on a chilly ...

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.

SACRAMENTO - It was a matter of life and death in 2015 when California Gov. Jerry Brown pondered an assisted suicide bill granting terminally ill people the right to choose when they die.

“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 ...

“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.

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.