Manhole Cover Blown Off PG&E Vault In SF's Financial District
A manhole cover blew off a PG&E vault in San Francisco's Financial District Wednesday morning, according to fire officials.
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A manhole cover blew off a PG&E vault in San Francisco's Financial District Wednesday morning, according to fire officials.
A mylar balloon was found tangled in power lines at 15th and Shotwell streets; the outage affected 6,246 customers.
When John Graves started seeing his electricity bill soaring near -- then above -- a thousand a month, his first thought was that he had a malfunctioning "smart meter."
Police are seeking a driver who fled after their vehicle crashed into a power pole early Tuesday morning in Antioch.
The gas leak was caused by a vehicle crash on Story Road.
Pacific Gas and Electric is challenging its criminal conviction.
Police closed El Camino Real between Shoreline Boulevard and El Monte Road in both directions.
Justice may have been served, but who will pay the fines?
A federal jury found California's largest utility guilty on Tuesday of misleading investigators about how it was identifying high-risk pipelines after a deadly pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Crews restored electricity to roughly 20,000 PG&E customers who lost power Thursday evening in San Francisco's SoMa district.
Federal prosecutors in the criminal pipeline safety trial of PG&E Co. have told the judge that they are giving up seeking an enhanced fine of up to $562 million if the utility is convicted.
The chief investigator in a National Transportation Safety Board probe into the fatal 2010 pipeline explosion in San Bruno testified at PG&E's criminal trial in San Francisco Wednesday that he believes the utility misled him.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. issued a warning to Pokemon Go players to avoid their facilities, following reports of players in other states going into power plants in search for the creatures.
A senior PG&E engineer testified at the utility's criminal trial in federal court that he never knowingly violated regulations.
A utility company and environmental groups have reached an agreement that will close California's last nuclear power plant, ending the state's nuclear power era.
The outage was first reported early Sunday morning and initially affected about 4,100 customers, according to a PG&E spokesman.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. ignored pipeline safety regulations to cut costs and tried to cover up its illegal practices by misleading federal officials investigating a deadly explosion of one of its natural gas pipelines a prosecutor said.
Jury selection has began in the federal obstruction-of-justice and pipeline-safety-violation trial of utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric in the wake of the deadly 2010 San Bruno gas line explosion.
A California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge has imposed a $24.3 million fine on PG&E for inaccurate records and maps of its natural gas distribution pipelines in more than a dozen cities.
An Oakland student is one of only 10 students in Northern and Central California to win a $20,000 college scholarship from PG&E.
A transformer failure and fire at a PG&E substation in El Cerrito caused a massive power outage in the East Bay Monday that disrupted BART service and traffic signals in Berkeley, an El Cerrito fire battalion chief said.
Judge rules prosecutors can't bring an exploded PG&E pipeline from the San Bruno explosion to a street near the courthouse to show jurors.
More than 5,000 customers lost power after underground equipment failed around 5:30 Sunday morning.
Some people are sheltering in place Thursday afternoon as firefighters and PG&E crews respond to a gas leak in Campbell, police and fire officials said.
PG&E officials have capped a gas leak that forced the evacuation of a Morgan Hill hotel this afternoon, utility officials said.
