Reporting from Sacramento — Gov. Jerry Brown was only interested in “the history and geology of his family ranch” in Colusa County when he asked state officials about the potential for ...

Who knew that any Californian could go to the state agency in charge of oil and gas and receive copies of historical documents on their land’s mineral deposits — at least, to the extent that ...

But now he’s living so far off the grid that he’s nearly impossible to find.And after two years of trying, KCRA 3 finally caught up with Jerry Brown at his rural ranch home in Colusa County.

His father, Edmund G. Brown, who was California’s governor from 1959 to 1967 — and whose mother, Ida, was born here — took his son to the ranch just once. “My father didn’t like it,” B ...