Gov. Jerry Brown, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and other dignitaries presided today over a groundbreaking ceremony for an ambitious construction and modernization project at UCSF…
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that requires California pharmacists to provide translations of prescription instructions to help the millions of residents with limited…
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Wednesday by two Bay Area assemblymen prohibiting sidewalk tolls for bicycles and pedestrians on the Golden Gate Bridge. “This is…
California Governor Jerry Brown has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in the capitol and elsewhere around the state after the death of a…
Gov. Jerry Brown today signed a controversial bill eliminating personal belief exemptions from vaccination requirements for students attending California schools. Senate Bill 277, authored by…
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon gathered with California’s elected officials Friday to celebrate the creation of the Charter of the United Nations in San…
State and federal leaders joined together today to start a pilot project aimed at providing more money for solar energy projects in multifamily housing in…
The University of California’s long range planning committee recommended the formation of a select advisory committee consisting only of Governor Jerry Brown and UC President…
The 2015-2016 state budget proposal released by Gov. Jerry Brown today includes a $120 million funding increase to the University of California system, but there…
A 38-year-old former U.S. Justice Department official was unanimously confirmed by a state commission in San Francisco today as the newest and youngest member of…
10:31 PM: A group of students and activists has taken over Wheeler Hall at the University of California at Berkeley this evening following a vote…
A former State Bar of California president and a San Francisco Superior Court judge were appointed to the state Court of Appeal in San Francisco…
California Governor Jerry Brown celebrated two decades of the AmeriCorps national service program with volunteers at the Presidio in San Francisco this morning while President…
Stanford University law professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar was unanimously confirmed to a post on the California Supreme Court by a state commission at a hearing in…
Gov. Jerry Brown today signed a bill authored by state Senator Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, and sponsored by Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley that ensures…
California Gov. Jerry Brown today called on state Sen. Leland Yee, who faces federal corruption and gun trafficking charges, and two other senators to resign…
Gov. Jerry Brown filed papers at the Alameda County Registrar of Voters office in Oakland today to run for an unprecedented fourth term as California’s…
A coalition of advocacy groups today delivered letters to state legislators calling on them to act quickly reduce prison overcrowding and drop any plans for…
Gov. Jerry Brown and state Democratic leaders today announced emergency legislation providing $687.4 million in funding to support drought relief projects. The legislation includes funds…
California Supreme Court Justice Joyce Kennard announced Tuesday that she will retire from the court on April 5. Kennard, 72, is the longest-serving justice on…
A federal three-judge panel today gave Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration a two-year extension of a deadline for reducing the number of inmates in the state’s…
12:03 PM: Gov. Jerry Brown today proclaimed a drought state of emergency in what is expected to be the driest year on record in California….
The head of California’s prisons said today that Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed $9.8 billion budget for corrections in the next fiscal year is aimed at…
Immigrant rights advocates are lauding a new California law taking effect today that will limit the criteria by which a local law enforcement agency can…
Gov. Jerry Brown today appointed Salinas City Attorney Vanessa Vallarta to the Monterey Superior Court and civil litigation attorney Ethan Schulman (photo above) to San…
Supporters of the Trust Act Monday lauded the governor’s decision to sign the law that aims to limit the criteria for deporting undocumented residents after…
Gov. Jerry Brown will be in Oakland today to mark the signing of a bill to raise California’s hourly minimum wage to $10 by 2016….
State Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, announced this morning in San Francisco the passage of a law that will extend the length of restraining orders…
A bill authored by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, that would ban kits that convert guns into assault-type weapons was approved in a state Assembly concurrence…
Gov. Jerry Brown today announced a plan to comply with a federal court limit on prison overcrowding by leasing more space for nearly 8,000 inmates…
The epic Rim Fire is not only threatening large swaths of wild forest and communities near Yosemite National Park, but the San Francisco Public Utilities…
Gov. Jerry Brown said today that he will seek a 60-day cooling-off period in the BART contract talks at a special court hearing in San…
Negotiators for BART and unions representing about 2,400 employees didn’t meet Tuesday and instead prepared for a hearing that a fact-finding panel appointed by Gov….
After California Gov. Jerry Brown stepped in to forestall a BART strike, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee raved over the governor’s “decisive action.” Lee “applauded”…
The U.S. Supreme Court today turned down a request by Gov. Jerry Brown for a stay of a lower court order requiring a reduction of…
Gov. Jerry Brown and state Attorney General Kamala Harris urged the California Supreme Court this evening to reject a bid by the supporters of Proposition…
A decision by the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown to switch from three drugs to a one-drug protocol for lethal injections will delay the potential…
BART and union officials headed back to the bargaining table this afternoon at the request of Gov. Jerry Brown as the deadline for a threatened…
A federal court today reaffirmed its order for a reduction of nearly 10,000 in the state’s prison population by Dec. 31, saying that Gov. Brown…
Economic inequality and climate change were the themes of a speech by Gov. Jerry Brown today at a conference in San Francisco hosted by the…
