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

The Trump administration’s sweeping roundups of undocumented immigrants in Southern California, including the use of National Guard troops and Marines — aimed, at last partially, at depicting ...

Gavin Newsom could learn, as Jerry Brown did earlier in his career, that political stunts as governor can haunt a presidential bid.

No one doubts that California firefighters and police officers perform their duties well and deserve our gratitude for their crucial public service.

Police say Brown is accused of pistol-whipping another man inside the 7-Eleven while on his lunch break from a shift at the McDonald’s down the road.

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

A key voice against such a foolhardy fiscal move is former Gov. Jerry Brown, who in 2012 championed a law that has employees hired after Jan. 1, 2013 accrue pension benefits under a less generous ...

Andrew Cuomo turned to municipal politics after resigning from New York’s governorship amid a sexual harassment scandal.

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 ...

With the passage of a state budget-related housing bill, the California Environmental Quality Act will be a non-issue for a ...

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