Gavin Newsom has shifted his image-building efforts into higher gear, bolstering assumptions that he will run for president.

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

They're asking to lower that date, a move that former Gov. Jerry Brown warns would add risk to pension plans. This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

For Gov. Jerry Brown, his updated California water plan — the peripheral pipes — is not just bold policy, it’s deeply personal. It’s not merely about his legacy, it’s about his family ...

Unlike his action-hero predecessor, Jerry Brown never warned, “I’ll be back.” And yet, remarkably, here he is, back for a third term as California governor. At his inaugural Monday, he will ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...