Bill Lockyer

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......

A media frenzy has erupted over a controversial type of debt financing often used by California school districts, including Newport-Mesa, to pay for construction projects. So-called capital appreciation bonds, or CABs, have become the debt worry du jour,...

News that the San Joaquin Hills toll road isn't attracting enough motorists to generate the money to pay off its investors came as no surprise to the community of Laguna Beach. The city was the only community through which the toll road runs to never...

Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is distancing itself from Friday's shooting at a Connecticut elementary school by selling the company that makes one of the weapons purportedly used in the attack. Cerberus said in a statement Tuesday that...

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...

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

Merci beaucoup, Burbank! Call me naïve (I only studied French for a year), but I have a hard time understanding why the Burbank City Council last month approved a private school — Lycee International de Los Angeles — using the city's...