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Not satisfied with reassurances from Pacific Gas and Electric, San Carlos has hired its own lawyers and technical experts to do an independent assessment of the natural gas pipeline state regulators ordered shut down this week.
The California Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday ordered PG&E to keep a disputed natural gas pipeline in San Carlos out of service until its safety is verified by the commission's staff.
PG&E crews in San Carlos should finish de-pressurizing a 20-inch, underground gas line considered to be at risk by Monday night.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says it will comply with a judge's order and shut down a natural gas pipeline in San Carlos after safety issues were raised.
Residents of a Menlo Park neighborhood were ordered to shelter in place after a gas line was struck and ruptured Monday morning, a Menlo Park fire division chief said.
A PG&E shareholder filed a lawsuit on Monday against the utility company's management stating that the executives, not the people who own the utility's common stock, should bear the cost of the San Bruno pipeline disaster.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. expects to pay a total of $565 million in legal settlements and other claims from a deadly 2010 gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco Bay Area suburb, the utility said.
Three years after a deadly PG&E pipeline explosion in San Bruno, a spokeswoman for the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office told KCBS that they will not be filing criminal charges against the utility.
Three years after the deadly gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes, the city's mayor is still not satisfied that an incident like the one that devastated his city couldn't happen again.
Nearly three years after a deadly pipeline explosion ripped through a San Bruno neighborhood, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. admitted Friday that it gave flawed reports about the safety of its pipelines after the disaster.
Nearly three years after a gas pipeline explosion tore through a San Bruno neighborhood, the city's mayor continued his push for regulatory reforms in the wake of the disaster.
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener wants to know if the City Public Utilities Commission and PG&E have improved their performance when it comes to fixing burned-out street lights.
Sept. 9 will mark three years since the devastating pipeline explosion that rocked San Bruno; it will also be the final day for San Mateo County prosecutors and the State of California to file criminal charges against the utility for the deadly 2010 incident that claimed 8 lives, injured many, and leveled entire homes.
As a massive wildfire burning into Yosemite National Park grew to nearly 200 square miles, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the city of San Francisco 150 miles away because of the threat to the city's utilities.
Proponents of a green power alternative to PG&E in San Francisco are frustrated, but not deterred by delays to the city's long awaited renewable energy program.
In a stunning defeat for green power advocates, San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission has halted a decade-old plan to develop a city-operated power program to generate clean energy for residents.
Both the contractor and PG&E crew failed to call 911 immediately after the gas leak.
Two suspects posing as PG&E employees tied up three family members in a Vallejo home Wednesday morning and fled with cash and household items, police said.
The parents of a camp counselor crushed to death by a falling tree near Yosemite National Park is suing Pacific Gas & Electric and the camp's arborist.
One man had his leg severed Saturday and four others were also injured as shrapnel from the demolition of a power plant flew into a crowd of more than 1,000 spectators that had gathered in Bakersfield to watch it come down.
More than 5,700 PG&E customers in San Leandro were without power due to two outages Saturday morning.
An evacuation order was lifted and roads mostly reopened Wednesday afternoon after a gas line that was accidentally ruptured by a construction crew Wednesday morning in Alamo was capped.
California regulators are calling on Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to pay at least $300 million in fines for a deadly 2010 gas pipeline blast.
Three Pacific Gas & Electric Company employees were robbed at gunpoint by three suspects in Oakland last week and a $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects, according to a PG&E spokesperson.
About 9,500 PG&E customers are without power in the South Bay Tuesday afternoon in a series of outages caused mainly by the increased use of air conditioners in the summer heat, officials said.
