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Who knew that any Californian could go to the state agency in charge of oil and gas and receive copies of historical documents on their land’s mineral deposits — at least, to the extent that ...

The state research done on the ranch was first disclosed in a lawsuit by attorney Patricia Oliver on behalf of a group of Kern County farmers who allege the Brown administration worked with the ...

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 ...