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.

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

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

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.

Gov. Jerry Brown, center, responds to a question concerning a compromise plan reached on reducing the state’s prison population, during a Capitol news conference in September 2013.

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.

Gov. Jerry Brown with, from left, Assemblyman Phil Ting, Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Sen. Holly Mitchell as he signs the California budget Wednesday.

Gov. Jerry Brown offers a glimpse of his Northern California ranch, a place where he contemplates not only the past but also his own future after a final year in office.

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 ...