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.

The costs of leaving the California Environmental Quality Act intact became too high. Newsom confronted the issue squarely, ushering reforms.

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 ...

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.

Andrew Cuomo turned to municipal politics after resigning from New York’s governorship amid a sexual harassment scandal. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown had a more prosaic reason for mounting a run ...

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, ...

Former Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown refused to comment on Vice President Kamala Harris after expressing confidence in President Biden as the "man of the hour," during a recent media ...

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, ...

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 ...

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown is living off the grid in retirement, but he's still deeply connected on two issues that captivated him while in office and now are center stage globally ...

Former Gov. Jerry Brown, not former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, joined Trump in a helicopter in 2018 to survey wildfire damage. It was during this tour that Trump blamed Democratic state ...

Gov. Jerry Brown and First Lady Anne Gust Brown pull the Christmas turkey out of the oven while hosting Christmas dinner in the Governor’s Mansion for family and friends on Friday, Dec. 25, 2015.