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

An overnight fire takes the life of a 13-year-old girl, and leaves her parents fighting for life outside Buckner, Missouri.

Missouri Department of Public Safety spokesman Mike O’Connell confirmed the state fire marshal’s office is investigating if fireworks may have caused the fire in Independence. The fire marshal’s ...

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

Independence firefighters are at the scene of a deadly fire Friday morning in the area of N. Lake City Valley Road and E.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Gov. Jerry Brown with several scientists, including Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, far left, and Christiana Figueres, the top United Nations official on climate change ...

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 ...

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