Embattled PG&E To File For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Less than 24 hours after the company's CEO stepped down, Northern California's largest utility company -- Pacific Gas & Electric -- announced Monday it was going to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Less than 24 hours after the company's CEO stepped down, Northern California's largest utility company -- Pacific Gas & Electric -- announced Monday it was going to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
PG&E is searching for a new CEO after Geisha Williams stepped down from her position, the company announced on Sunday.
A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday tentatively ordered PG&E to inspect its entire electrical service area and remove or trim any trees and repair any damaged transmission equipment that could cause wildfires.
S&P slashed San Francisco-based PG&E's credit rating to junk status as the utility grapples with the political and financial fallout from costly and deadly wildfires in California.
The parent company of California's largest utility is assessing its finances and structure in the wake of wildfires that could expose it to billions of dollars in liability.
Federal prosecutors say a California utility's role in igniting wildfires last year could allow a judge to find that it violated terms of its criminal conviction in a deadly gas pipeline explosion.
PG&E could face criminal charges as serious as manslaughter or murder in the wake of the deadly Camp Fire.
The utility blamed for almost a dozen California wildfires is giving a big gift to Marin County Fire Department. PG&E has paid for a network of new fire-surveillance cameras to go up on the county's peaks.
A woman who lost her home in California's most destructive wildfire ever says she and her husband are humbled to have received pardons from Gov. Jerry Brown for old drug crimes.
California regulators said Friday they are considering drastic measures for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., including breaking up the utility over its role in recent gas explosions and wildfires.
When the Camp Fire roared through Paradise, 94-year-old Bill Keller, a WWII veteran and combat photographer, lost everything. On Wednesday, the California National Guard honored Sgt. Keller with the California Commendation Medal for his services.
Pacific Gas & Electric said Wednesday that it has restored power to the last of around 10,000 residents of Paradise and the surrounding area, who lost electricity when the devastating Camp Fire ravaged Butte County on Nov. 8.
Singer-songwriter Jesse Colin Young took on the Northern Marin Water District in hopes of preserving the ridge top view his family property, at a hearing Tuesday.
Three employees of a San Leandro construction company were fired Saturday for posting insensitive photos on social media from the wreckage left behind in Paradise by the deadly Camp Fire.
When a wildfire burned across Big Sur two years ago and threatened hundreds of homes scattered on the scenic hills, thousands of firefighters responded with overwhelming force, attacking flames from the air and ground.
The Butte County health officer issued an advisory strongly urging people not to live on destroyed property until it is declared clear of hazardous waste, ash and debris.
Insurance claims from last month's California wildfires, including the Camp Fire in Butte County, already are at $9 billion and expected to increase.
Bay Area activists and environmental groups gathered Tuesday in San Francisco to demand that PG&E be held responsible for their role in the deadly Camp Fire in Butte County last month.
A Butte County family has been reunited with their cat after it stayed behind during the deadly Camp Fire last month that leveled their home.
A Gilroy couple was preparing for a cross-country move, but they decided to leave almost everything they had to victims of the Camp Fire.
Federal officials say survivors of the deadly Camp Fire will not lose disaster assistance if they are unable to get their homes inspected in the next month.
A dog that survived the catastrophic Camp Fire in Butte County apparently protected the ruins of his home for almost a month until his owner returned.
A University of Nevada, Reno scientist has published a paper documenting the factors that fueled the destructive "firenado" that swept through Redding during the Carr Fire.
Some pets left behind in the Camp Fire but who survived with significant burns are receiving a unique treatment at one of the nation's premier veterinary hospitals.
Some residents of a Butte County town devastated by the catastrophic Camp Fire nearly a month ago were finally allowed to return home Wednesday.
