Independence firefighters are at the scene of a deadly fire Friday morning in the area of N. Lake City Valley Road and E.

The way you have to approach the political process is something like piloting a canoe,” Brown once said. “If you stand up on one side you’ll fall in. If you stand up on the other side you’ll fall in.

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 ...

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.

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.

Must Reads: As Gov. Jerry Brown leaves office, he seems unlikely to retire from the only profession he’s ever known. Gov. Jerry Brown at his ranch near Williams, Calif., in 2017.

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.

Gov. Jerry Brown with, from left, Assemblyman Phil Ting, Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Sen. Holly Mitchell as he signs the California budget Wednesday.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jerry Brown Jr. was described by the Colts as a hard-working, caring player who embraced his opportunity Indianapolis Colts senior director of communications Avis Roper ...