Bill Lockyer

We've all heard the saw about California being hostile to industry. Here's an industry that indisputably has grounds for complaint: the gun industry. Finally, the Legislature is getting something right. According to many experts, California's firearms...

State Treasurer Bill Lockyer sought a legal opinion from Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris to determine if some local education officials and the municipal finance firms they employ are violating state law by campaigning to get school construction bonds passed....

A major Wall Street rating agency said Monday morning that Gov. Jerry Brown's latest budget proposal shows California's finances are on the mend. But the agency, Moody's Investors Service, cautioned that California's progress could easily stall given...

Two state legislators are leading an effort to rein in an increasingly popular method of paying for classrooms and other school improvements. So-called capital improvement bonds often carry repayment costs several times higher than the amount borrowed....

The golden rule in state government used to be that if more than 6% of the budget was being consumed by paying back bonds and other debt, there was too much borrowing going on. It’s been some time since California......

Nadia Lockyer, an Alameda County supervisor until April of this year, was arrested by the Orange Police Department on Aug. 28, after law enforcement received a call from a tipster saying she was in possession of drugs, according to the Orange County...

A former Bay Area supervisor Nadia Lockyer -- who has struggled publicly with substance-abuse problems that led her to resign earlier this year -- faces criminal charges in Orange County following her arrest on suspicion of possessing and being under........

Former Alameda county supervisor Nadia Lockyer is scheduled to be in Orange County court next Monday for a pre-trial hearing after being arrested last week on suspicion on child endangerment and drug use....

Nadia Lockyer, the former Bay Area supervisor and estranged wife of California's state treasurer, will be allowed to visit her 9-year-old following her drug arrest in Orange County last month. An Orange County Superior Court judge granted Lockyer...

Timothy White, the chancellor of UC Riverside since 2008, has been named the new head of the 23-campus California State University system. White takes over for outgoing Chancellor Charles Reed, who announced his resignation earlier this year. He will...

In the wake of Friday's shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, there's a growing push to put more pressure on gun manufacturers. One of those targets is Cerberus, the private equity firm that owns a collection of gun manufacturers called......

Treasurer Bill Locyer files for divorce from wife after controversy...