SF News Elderly Oakland Couple Punked, Robbed By Fake PG&E Guys Oakland needs to be on the alert for two dudes (or anyone for that matter) posing as PG&E workers with clipboards and claiming they need to "check an easement" on your
SF News Brief Power Outage Hits 37,000 In S.F. Tuesday Night A power outage left 36,895 homes dark last night (including one of your SFist editors) for a brief period during which they might have otherwise been enjoying David Letterman, or President Obama
SF News Power Outage Hits SoMa [Updates] The power is out on Folsom between 1st & 6th Streets and in other nearby parts of SoMa. This means that your SFist editor's Whole Foods is CLOSED and thus he cannot buy
SF News BREAKING: Gas Line Rupture Shuts Down SoMa Near Yerba Buena, Buildings Evacuated [Update] Photo: Brock Keeling A gas line in the SoMa district is presently leaking, causing Folsom and Howard Streets between 3rd and 5th Streets to be closed to traffic and multiple buildings to be
SF News PG&E Spoiling The Fun Of Oakland's Utility Pole Gnomes Oaklanders began noticing tiny painted portraits of gnomes appearing at the bases of utility poles around town exactly a year ago, adding a splash of whimsy and mystery to the otherwise bullet-riddled landscape.
SF News Christmas Night Brings Another Manhole Cover Blast Like a little Christmas gift from PG&E, a manhole cover blew off at 3rd and Mission Streets last evening in a festive display caused by an underground vault fire. The incident
SF News PG&E Fires or Suspends 18 Employees In Scandal Over 1,200 Fraudulent Inspections PG&E is supposed to be more vigilant and safety-oriented these days, after blowing up a cul de sac in 2010 and killing eight people in San Bruno, but as it happens,
SF News Lightning Strike Blows Out Transformers in Noe Valley About 100 households lost power in Noe Valley last night when a freak lightning strike took out five transformers near 24th and Hoffman Streets. Some of you who were awake around 1 a.
SF News City Tentatively Approves CleanPowerSF Public Power Initiative In yesterday's meeting, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to approve CleanPowerSF — the city's first step in toppling PG&E's longstanding monopoly. In addition to offering a local customers the choice to
SF News Richmond District Gas Leak Prompts Evacuations Several homes have been ordered to evacuate after a gas leak occurred at 25th Avenue and Geary in San Francisco. Aa tear was punctured in a 2-inch gas main was reported a little
SF News Another Gas Leak In San Bruno; This Time, a Contractor's Fault Just yards from where the high-pressure gas pipe sprung a leak and caused a massive fireball in San Bruno in 2010, a private contractor busted open another gas pipe yesterday, letting loose some
SF News Around 7,000 Without Power This Morning Oh dear. An estimated 5,000-7,000 PG&E customers are without power this morning. The problem began last night, with some customers experiencing periodic blackouts. However, according to PG&E,
SF News PG&E Has Valve Shutoff Problem Again in Last Night's Four-Alarm Portola Blaze Yet again, PG&E is being blamed by firefighters for taking way too long to shut off a gas main during a four-alarm fire at a construction site yesterday afternoon. Two hours
SF News Cyclist Critically Injured In SoMa Crash A cyclist riding near 13th Street and South Van Ness yesterday morning collided with a PG&E van and sustained critical injuries that are life-threatening. The van was traveling south on South
SF News PG&E Trying To Get Out Of Paying Fine For Deadly San Bruno Disaster Get this: PG&E actually had the balls to ask the state this week if they wouldn't please be so kind as to offset the fine they're expected to be on the
SF News Two Underground Explosions Rock Chinatown/North Beach [Updated] We're getting reports of a manhole explosion in the last hour near the corner of Grant and Pine, and PG&E is reportedly already on the scene. Emergency In SF reports that
SF News BREAKING: PG&E Fire Vault Closes Geary Boulevard Traffic is closed East Bound on Geary Boulevard between 29th & 31st Avenue until after 10:00 a.m. A PG&E vault fire (similar to this one in 2009) caused a
SF News PG&E Leaves 2,900 SoMa Residents In the Dark Here's your weekly unscheduled PG&E power outage: roughly 2,900 customers are without power along Folsom, Howard and Clementina Streets tonight. City Supervisor Jane Kim, always looking out for her neighborhood,
SF News 9,000 Without Power In San Francisco's Western Addition, Haight A major power outage hit San Francisco today affecting central San Francisco. An estimated 9,000 people are without juice. According to Andrew Dalton at SFist's western headquarters, "a couple of PG&
SF News Local Utility Company Continues To Disrupt Daytime TV Watching, Late Commutes, Sleeping We wept in to our coffee mugs when PG&E went and robbed us of our daytime programming the other day, and today some 5,100 customers in Noe Valley suffered a
SF News Power Outage Hits Western Addition [Updated] A whopping 7,000 PG&E customers are without power this morning after an outage hit the area. Intersections are affected and parking control officers are controlling intersections. Please be advised. Far
SF News San Francisco Can Finally Ditch PG&E In 2017, Says Interactive Map Does anyone really like our local utility company? No, no one does. PG&E blows things up, deprives us of our pastimes and attempts to scramble our brainwaves on a regular basis.
SF News Copper Theft Popular Among Middle-Age Men, Apparently In the latest updates from the war on copper theft, four men were busted after swiping copper from a PG&E yard in San Rafael last Friday night. The four men, all
SF News PG&E Flip Flops Again, While Mayor Lee Calls Candlestick Power Outage "A National Embarrassment" In a press conference yesterday afternoon, Mayor Lee called Monday night's power outage at Candlestick Park "a national embarrassment." This is, of course, the same Mayor Lee who once called PG&E
SF News PG&E Changes Its Mind, Blames Candlestick Power Outage On The City Although PG&E admitted last night's power outage at Candlestick Park was due to an exploding transformer, the historically volatile power company doesn't want to take the fall for the incident. As
