Power has been restored to all 43,000 East Bay residents and businesses after a transformer failure and fire at a PG&E substation in El Cerrito…
A power outage stretching from Berkeley to El Cerrito has knocked out power for 40,000 residents and businesses, shut down traffic signals and disrupted BART…
Pacific Gas and Electric is alerting customers around the Bay Area to be aware of a recent telephone scam with callers demanding immediate payment for…
A gas leak was reported this morning in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, fire officials said. Fire officials reported the leak at about 9 a.m. after…
A federal judge in San Francisco Wednesday dismissed 15 of 28 pipeline-safety-related criminal charges against PG&E Co., but said his action doesn’t affect the seriousness…
A big-rig crash brought down power lines and caused a gas leak in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood this morning, a fire department spokeswoman said….
PG&E has filed a barrage of motions in federal court in San Francisco, seeking dismissal of all of the 28 criminal charges it faces for…
A man posing as a utility worker trespassed at a home in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood Tuesday afternoon while a woman was asleep inside, police…
An investigation into whether corporate culture and governance at PG&E is responsible for persistent safety problems at the gas and electric utility company was launched…
The California Public Utilities Commission is considering an investigation into whether PG&E’s culture and governance have contributed to safety issues including the deadly San Bruno…
PG&E capped a gas leak in San Francisco’s Richmond District that forced the evacuation of more than 100 residents for about two hours this morning,…
PG&E crews are working to repair a ruptured 4-inch gas line that prompted evacuations in San Francisco’s Lake Street neighborhood this morning, a PG&E spokeswoman…
Not only can striking a gas line cause outages, serious damage and injuries, but those who do could incur fines or be required to cover…
A U.S. appeals court today dismissed a lawsuit in which the city of San Francisco claimed a federal pipeline safety agency failed to enforce safety…
An excavating crew struck a gas line this afternoon in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, a utility spokesman said. A third-party contractor was operating an excavator…
PG&E crews stopped a gas leak in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood this afternoon, fire and utility officials said. The gas leak was reported at…
San Francisco fire officials and PG&E say they have received multiple calls reporting a smell of gas in the city’s western neighborhoods this afternoon, but…
A state appeals court in San Francisco on Tuesday upheld a $14.35 million fine imposed by the California Public Utilities Commission on PG&E for a…
A gas leak near the Moscone Center this afternoon appears to have been connected to construction work in the area on the Central Subway project,…
A helium balloon is to blame for thousands of residents and businesses losing power in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf and North Beach neighborhoods this afternoon,…
More than 2,000 PG&E customers in and around San Francisco’s Mission District lost power this afternoon because of a piece of plastic, a PG&E spokesman…
PG&E crews have capped a gas leak in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood this afternoon, a utility spokesman said. The leak was reported at 11:55 a.m….
PG&E crews have restored power to all the more than 30,000 customers in San Francisco affected by an outage that started late Sunday, PG&E officials…
The California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco today imposed a record $1.6 billion penalty on PG&E Co. for a fatal pipeline explosion in San…
Four and one-half years after a fatal pipeline explosion in San Bruno, the California Public Utilities Commission is set to decide in San Francisco Thursday…
San Bruno officials announced today they support a proposed increased $1.6 billion penalty and fine for PG&E Co. for a fatal 2010 pipeline explosion in…
Three power outages have occurred within the span of roughly three hours at San Francisco’s Hall of Justice today, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said. The most…
PG&E crews stopped a gas leak in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood this afternoon after it was ruptured by a construction crew digging in the…
A gas line that leaked after being struck by a vehicle in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood this afternoon has been secured, according to fire…
Police seized more than 600 marijuana plants from a house in San Francisco’s Bayview District early this morning, a police spokeswoman said. San Francisco police…
California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Picker today proposed increasing to $1.6 billion a penalty imposed on PG&E for safety violations related to a fatal…
San Francisco police have lifted a shelter-in-place order this afternoon after PG&E stopped a gas leak in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood, police and a PG&E…
PG&E filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission on Monday to build roughly 25,000 new electric vehicle charging stations across Northern and Central…
The California Public Utilities Commission today released roughly 65,000 email messages exchanged between PG&E Co. and agency officials between 2010 and 2014 as ordered because…
A ruptured gas line in San Francisco’s North of Panhandle neighborhood was capped this morning, fire and utility officials said. The leak was reported at…
PG&E Co. was ordered by an administrative law judge today to give the city of San Bruno by Jan. 30 almost all of 65,000 emails…
This month the University of California plans to begin supplying electricity directly to campuses and medical centers in Irvine, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz…
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission warned residents today to watch out for burglars posing as agency employees, a commission spokesman said. The warning came…
PG&E Co. today made public 12 new sets of email messages that it said appear to show violations of rules against back-channel communications with regulators…
The city of San Bruno asked the California Public Utilities Commission today to order PG&E Co. to release 65,000 email messages exchanged between PG&E and…
