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

Gavin Newsom has shifted his image-building efforts into higher gear, bolstering assumptions that he will run for president. But as Jerry Brown learned during his tenure as governor, past political ...

An early morning fire in Independence left one person dead and two others badly injured, according to the Independence Fire ...

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

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown had a more prosaic reason for mounting a run for mayor of Oakland in 1998: he was out of other options after having lost three presidential primaries and one U.S.

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 ...

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, ...

Jerry Brown was sworn in as California Secretary of State, his first statewide office, in 1971 by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, left. Brown was joined at the ceremony by his parents, ...

News about Jerry Brown, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Last week, former California governor Jerry Brown, 87, defended the state’s non-functional high-speed rail project, better known as the bullet train. “We’ve got the money. We’re a rich ...

He did ride in a helicopter with Jerry Brown, then governor, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, then the governor-elect, back in 2018 to survey wildfire damage, but both Jerry Brown and Newsom told the New ...