PG&E Announces It Will File For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy After Wildfire Liabilities
Pacific Gas and Electric, facing billions of dollars in claims over the deadly 2018 Camp Fire, is headed to bankruptcy court.
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Pacific Gas and Electric, facing billions of dollars in claims over the deadly 2018 Camp Fire, is headed to bankruptcy court.
PG&E is searching for a new CEO after Geisha Williams stepped down from her position, the company announced on Sunday.
More signs PG&E could be inching closer to bankruptcy.
A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday tentatively ordered PG&E to inspect its entire electrical service area.
California's largest power company is getting battered in midday trading on reports that it's considering bankruptcy protection in the face of potentially crippling liability damages from a spate of wildfires.
Pitch black. That's what thousands are dealing with as more a hundred thousand people in the Sacramento area are without power.
The parent company of California's largest utility is assessing its finances and structure in the wake of wildfires blamed on its equipment that could cost it billions of dollars in liability.
The lawsuits filed by Allstate, State Farm, USAA and their subsidiaries come on top of several other cases filed by victims of the Camp Fire, which devastated the towns of Paradise, Magalia and Concow north of Sacramento after it started Nov. 8.
PG&E says several of its employees reported seeing flames soon after the deadly Camp Fire sparked in Butte County.
PG&E's role in igniting wildfires last year could allow a judge to find that it violated terms of its criminal sentence in a 2010 gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people, federal prosecutors said Monday.
The opinion was submitted to a judge overseeing a criminal case involving a PG&E natural gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno in 2010.
The state's top prosecutor could charge PG&E with manslaughter if responsible for California's deadly wildfires.
PG&E has paid for a network of new fire-surveillance cameras to go up on Marin County peaks.
Ten years ago, a natural gas explosion killed a man in his home and injured several others, leaving PG&E to blame.
California regulators said Friday they are considering splitting up PG&E or making other drastic changes amid concerns over the utility's role in recent gas explosions and wildfires.
Three contractors paid to help clean-up in the campfire burn zone have been fired after offensive pictures posted online sparked outrage from the paradise community.
Regulators are accusing one of California's largest utilities of falsifying safety documents on natural gas pipelines over a five-year period.
PG&E is asking state regulators to let it pass on the cost of wildfire prevention to its customers.
California utilities plan to insulate power lines, increase inspections and build new weather stations in areas at high risk for wildfires in an effort to combat increasingly destructive blazes.
Protesters were demanding action against PG&E over its role in the catastrophic Camp Fire, including breaking up the utility.
California regulators on Thursday ordered the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. utility to improve its "safety culture" after questioning the safety qualifications of top executives.
The utility explains why it didn't follow through on warnings to shut off power in a state filing Tuesday.
PG&E and other utilities companies could be protected from possible bankruptcy by a measure being introduced in California's legislature.
Shares of California electric company PG&E soared Friday on new hopes that the company won't have to go bankrupt if it is found to be liable for the massive Camp Fire.
While the cause of the Camp Fire remains under investigation, PG&E stock took a huge hit Wednesday on Wall Street.
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Hundreds gathered in downtown Truckee for strength, unity and remembrance of the nine people who lost their lives in the avalanche near Castle Peak.
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Victor Wembanyama had 28 points and 15 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Sacramento Kings 139-122 for their eighth straight win and a sweep of their two games in Austin.
Team USA added another gold medal to its tally on Sunday, when the U.S. men's hockey team beat Team Canada.
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Paolo Banchero scored 30 points and the Orlando Magic beat Sacramento 131-94 on Thursday night for the Kings' franchise-record 15th straight loss.
An armed man was shot and killed early Sunday morning after "unauthorized entry" into the secure perimeter at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, the U.S. Secret Service said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement that TSA and Customs and Border Protection are "suspending courtesy and special privilege escorts."
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Health officials in the East Bay said a man has died from consuming toxic wild mushrooms, amid an ongoing spike in mushroom-related poisonings throughout California.
Health officials in Napa County confirmed Wednesday that a child has been diagnosed with measles in the county's first case in nearly 15 years.
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From fruits and veggies to car parts, economists project that businesses will pass along the cost of the tariffs to customers.
An economic blackout was underway Friday as activists nationwide encouraged people not to spend their money at large corporations, retailers and fast-food chains for 24 hours.
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More than a year after Hai Pham canceled the trial membership, he kept getting charged every month for it.
A Natomas mother demanded that her daughter be exhumed and cremated after a Sacramento cemetery moved her grave without telling the family.
A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the Tiger Fire that burned 118 acres in California's Amador County last summer and forced evacuations near Pioneer.
A major home developer is rethinking how communities are built in wildfire-prone areas and the future is taking shape in El Dorado County.
San Joaquin County secured a grant aimed at helping to build a wildfire protection plan for the entire county.
More than two dozen structures were destroyed in a wildfire in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
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