SF News PG&E Announces More Possible Shutoffs Wednesday As Dry, Windy Conditions Return Northern California remains pretty parched despite some passing mists last week, and wind conditions coming to mountain areas this week mean that more proactive power shutoffs are likely in our future.
SF News SF Offered to Buy PG&E’s Local Power Lines for $2.5 Billion, Beleaguered Utility Turned It Down As news breaks that PG&E executives threw a ritzy Sonoma winery bash on the eve of the blackouts, we also learn the company rejected a multibillion-dollar offer from City Hall to buy their local lines.
SF News The PG&E Shut-Offs Are Done, But It Could Be Five Days Until Power is Restored There will be no more new outages, PG&E declares, though it may take until Tuesday for the utility to turn everyone’s electricity back on.
SF News PG&E’s Phase Two Outages Underway, as Many as Two Million Are Without Power Swaths of Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo Counties lost power last night, but a Moraga wildfire reminds us that the threat of fires is indeed real.
SF News [Update] PG&E Blackouts Hit 500,000 Customers So Far, With More To Come Marin and Napa customers got their power cut last night, while Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties will lose power today, as the PG&E power outage disaster is mushrooming by the minute.
SF News BART Says Service Won't Be Interrupted Despite Wide Possible Power Outage BART pledges that train service will not be interrupted Wednesday and Thursday despite large swaths of the Bay Area being expected to lose power in a PG&E safety shutoff.
SF News PG&E Taps Coal Executive as New CEO, Not Exactly Turning Over a New Leaf Meet the new PG&E CEO and board, which Gov. Newsom lambasts as the same as the old CEO and board.
SF News PG&E Staffer Reportedly Blames Fog For Richmond District Power Outage #UPDATE: 1,600 PG&E customers without #power in #SanFrancisco.https://t.co/34qEmLmbIU— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) July 30, 2017 A PG&E outage that knocked power out for thousands of
Arts & Entertainment SF's Cutest Birds Of Prey Now Boast Upgraded Webcam Experience Gif of Thursday morning falconcam action: SFist San Francisco's most adorable raptors just got easier to stalk, as the webcam Big-Brothering their every feathered move just got a pretty sweet upgrade. We've been
SF News PG&E, PUC Feud Could Be Keeping The Lights Off At Completed Projects Supervisor Jeff Sheehy is accusing PG&E of intentionally dragging its feet in a way that's keeping the lights off at two sites in his district, the newly renovated Randall Museum and
SF News Why Is PG&E Buying Multi-Million Dollar Marina Homes And Digging Up Their Yards? Some strange dirt on PG&E dug up by the Chronicle: For the last four years, the utility has been buying out multi-million dollar homes in the Marina to remove chemical contamination
SF News San Francisco Beset By Mystery Stench Apparently unaware of the truism "the smeller's the feller," at least 50 San Franciscans contacted officials Wednesday morning complaining about a (new) stinky smell in our city. According to Pacific Gas and Electric
SF News No Injuries After FiDi Manhole Cover Blows Off An underground explosion beneath in the Financial District this morning resulted in what the Fire Department calls a "PG&E Vault Incident" and what the casual layperson observer might describe as "oh
SF News Now PG&E Wants Its Conviction Thrown Out In San Bruno Blast Case As most of you know, in September of 2010, an explosion rocked San Bruno, killing eight people, injuring 58 more, and destroying 38 homes in the process. On August 9, 2016, a jury
SF News PG&E Fined Only $3 Million In San Bruno Criminal Case, Convicted On 6 of 12 Charges In the case of a devastating explosion that killed eight people, injured 58 others, and destroyed 38 homes in a San Bruno neighborhood six years ago, utility company PG&E has been
SF News PG&E 'Equipment Failure' Causes SF Manhole Explosion, Underground Fire, And Power Outage PG&E still working to recover from an underground fire at Hyde & Geary in San Francisco. 1 bldg. still without power pic.twitter.com/L0AWWIetLK— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) August 2, 2016
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Goes To Rio On PG&E's Dime Did you know that Mayor Ed Lee is in Brazil this week? Well, he is, on a trip bought for him by a flock of high-powered big business donors. Here's Lee's daily calendar
SF News Drone Blamed For Sunday Night Power Outage In SF It's disturbingly easy to throw PG&E off their power-supply game, as errant raccoons, balloons, and big-rigs have illustrated. But now the energy company can add another baddie to their enemies list:
SF News Crashed Big Rig Shuts Down De Haro Street, Knocks Out Power To Thousands Semi-Truck Collison: Deharo might be closed up to 24 hours, from 20th to 19th to restore utilities. #potrerohill pic.twitter.com/CBPkN9XmQy— Captain Vaswani (@sfvas) November 10, 2015 A semi-truck crashed into a
SF News Exploding Transformer, Errant Raccoon Knock Out Power To Thousands Of San Franciscans Huge swaths of San Francisco found themselves without power Saturday, after two separate incidents — one caused by a transformer that exploded, the other caused by a raccoon — took out lines across the city.
SF News PG&E Gas Line Explodes Near Fresno, At Least 14 Injured A photo posted by Alan-Michael (@81vlvnmvc) on Apr 17, 2015 at 2:29pm PDT An explosion near Fresno at about 2:30 p.m. halted north and south traffic on Highway 99, KCRA
SF News Windy City: Trees Toppled, Power Lost, BART Disrupted Almost 10,000 PG&E customers throughout the Bay Area are without power this morning due to wind-related outages, reports CBS 5, included over 6 thousand in San Francisco alone. The most
SF News Fishermen Sue PG&E Over Chemical Contamination Near Wharf by Eric Wuestewald On Tuesday, fifty fisherman and a single Marina property owner filed a formal complaint against PG&E claiming their former refineries had poured some truly nasty stuff into the
SF News PG&E To Be Fined $1.4 Billion By Public Utilities Commission Over San Bruno Blast [Updated] In the largest ever fine to be imposed by California's Public Utilities Commission, PG&E may be slapped with a $1.4 billion fine for the institutional negligence that led up to
SF News Day Around the Bay: Murdoch Takes Stab At Google Crazy old man Rupert Murdoch takes stab at Google privacy concerns in one of the greatest pot-kettle-black moments of recent Twitter history. [SF Business Times] Michael Bauer is already contemplating additions to next
