Jerry Brown News

The Sacramento Delta ecosystem will be devastated if the Bay Delta Conservation Plan happens, says the Sacramento News Review, being considerably more charitable towards Gov.

Special elections have been set to replace Norma Torres, who resigned her Assembly district after winning a state Senate seat.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will join more than 500 world-renowned researchers and scientists to release a groundbreaking call to action on climate change tomorrow at the fourth annual Water, Energy and Smart Technology Summit and Showcase at NASA Ames Research Center.

Californians with disabilities and groups supporting them gathered at the Capitol today for a daylong push to make their voices heard and to lobby for restoration of past budget cuts affecting them.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring May 22, 2013 as "Harvey Milk Day" in the State of California.

STOCKTON, Calif. - Here in Stockton, the standard postcards show a palm-lined City Center, without revealing that under those palm trees, the homeless sometimes outnumber the homed.

Some of us like to start our day off with a quiet and leisurely cup of coffee and a copy of the paper , but today Gov.

Even as attempts to enact sensible gun safety legislation at the national level remain stalled and states like Missouri pass constitutionally-questionable measures to nullify all federal gun control laws, California continues to lead in the effort to stem the U.S. epidemic of gun violence.

Absent legislative action, taxpayers will have to pay about 50 cents per letter to notify more than a million households that a 10-cent public benefit is about to expire.

With scant rain locally and little snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, local Cal Fire officials said Tuesday they are bracing for what could be a dangerous fire season.

Reyes, 60, has been in solo private practice since 1990. He has a law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law and Bachelor of Arts degree from St.

California is sending six specially trained urban search-and-rescue workers to Oklahoma to assist recovery efforts after Monday's tornado.

With the Riverside County Democratic Party throwing its support behind Senate Bill 56, which would restore crucial state funding to the four new cities, it will be interesting to see how Gov.

Normally, it's uncomfortable at best to hear a federal judge - let alone a panel of three - thunder criticism from the bench.

To ensure adequate funding remains at the county level for safety net services, dollars would only be redirected based on actual county-by-county experience.

"A unified, functioning bi-state agency is the best thing for the health and well-being of Lake Tahoe and the community at large," said Sen.

A little more than a week before engineers are expected to disclose whether the Bay Bridge's new span can open as planned Labor Day weekend, Gov.

The bolts were designed to be too hard and brittle and could snap in an earthquake; 32 of the rods have broken already.

On the same day that California Governor Jerry Brown proposed spending $1 billion to implement statewide education standards, Tehachapi school officials listened closely to a plan that will remodel the district's own testing system and curriculum.

Gov. Jerry Brown has renewed his push to eliminate the $700 million to $750 million a year business tax break known as enterprise zones, this time with the goal of using that money in ways that actually would stimulate economic development.