SF News PG&E Equipment Fire Causes Blackout In Hayes Valley and Haight, Shuts Down Ballet A reportedly "small" fire in an underground PG&E vault near the intersection of Laguna and Hayes streets Wednesday night caused a power outage for 9,000 utility customers — including the San Francisco Ballet, performing at the War Memorial Opera House.
SF News Humpday Headlines: PG&E Lays Out Plans for This Year's Power Shutoffs BART has lost almost 10 million riders on nights and weekends, unlicensed contractors nabbed trying to bid on work in Paradise, and yes, PG&E does plan to keep shutting off the power when it's windy and dry this year.
SF News PG&E Is Still Operating a 'Rickety' Power Line With Rusted Parts Near the One That Sparked the Camp Fire An expert hired by wildfire victims' attorneys recently did an independent inspection of PG&E power lines that are still operational in the vicinity of Paradise, California, and they have found one in terrible shape just 100 yards from the Caribou-Palermo line which sparked the 2018 Camp Fire.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Newsom Says PG&E 'No Longer Exists' A man was killed Wednesday night when an Amtrak train struck his car in Oakland, an East Bay school district is suing Juul, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is once again repeating his tough talk on the future of PG&E.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Brewery Releases PG&E-Themed 'Mandatory Blackout' Porter Sonoma County craft brewers have been reacting to this fire season's pre-emptive power shutoffs with themed beers. The latest example is Barrel Brothers Brewing's Mandatory Blackout imperial porter.
SF News Gavin Newsom Rejects PG&E Bankruptcy Plan Pacific Gas and Electric has until Tuesday to submit another revised restructuring plan to emerge from bankruptcy after what the Sacramento Bee calls a "stunning rebuke" by Governor Gavin Newsom.
SF News PG&E Reaches $13.5 Billion Settlement for Victims of Wildfires, Ghost Ship Fire PG&E announced Monday that it had reached a settlement valued around $13.5 billion to compensate victims of wildfires in 2015, 2017, and 2018 that have been linked to the utility's equipment, as well as to families of the victims of the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland.
SF News Elected Officials Statewide Push for Consumer Takeover of PG&E PG&E would be radically transformed into a customer-owned co-op under a new plan being pushed by more than 100 California elected officials.
SF News Despite No Weather Changes, PG&E Changes Its Mind Again About Alameda County, Lamorinda Shutoffs The messaging game remains fraught with flip-flopping over at PG&E as the company announced Tuesday afternoon that conditions are "changing" and some 12,000 power customers in Alameda County who were told Monday they'd be losing power Wednesday are now not expected to do so.
SF News San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties Added to PG&E Shutoff List Three more counties were added early Tuesday to the list of those with residents and businesses who will be potentially impacted by a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) set to begin early Wednesday.
SF News Oakland/Berkeley Hills and Part of Contra Costa County Added to PG&E Shutoff Map For Wednesday As should be expected, the impacts of a still-in-planning Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) by PG&E on November 20 are a moving target, and now we're learning that Alameda and Contra Costa County are in the mix.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Pushes Back Further In PG&E Bankruptcy Case The Apple Card appears to have some sexist approval practices, California DACA recipients speak out as Supreme Court hears case, and a rolled-over fuel tanker cause a traffic mess in the South Bay.
SF News New Round of PG&E Blackouts Likely To Begin Tuesday At Noon A fresh round of public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) is expected to begin Tuesday afternoon and last until Wednesday morning — and for some who lost power over the weekend, they may not be seeing it turned on again until this next "wind event" dies down.
SF News Here's An Auto-Updating Fire Map of Sonoma County and All of California It remains a dynamic situation in northern Sonoma County where the Kincade Fire more than doubled in size Sunday night in terms of acreage burned and burning.
SF News Weekend Power Shutoffs To Impact Large Parts of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Marin Counties The latest map of potentially impacted areas in the upcoming weekend public safety power shutoffs by PG&E includes wide swaths of every Bay Area county except San Francisco.
SF News PG&E Stock Tanks Anew Following Kincade Fire News PG&E's stock is hitting new lows Friday following news that one of its transmission lines may have again been responsible for a destructive wildfire, as it continues to try to emerge from bankruptcy.
SF News More, Wider-Spread Power Shutoffs Likely Coming To Bay Area Sunday After shutoffs that have already gotten underway in Sonoma and Napa counties and elsewhere Wednesday, with more to begin Wednesday night, weather models suggest windy conditions that could lead to power shutoffs for an even wider swath of Northern California on Sunday and Monday.
SF News Here's a Map of Where PG&E Is Likely To Shut Off Power Today According to PG&E's latest projected outage map for the Public Safety Power Shutoff event beginning today, a large swath of the Sierra foothills will be impacted, as will around 27,000 power customers in Sonoma County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County Added To Potential Power Shut-Off List An Atherton couple has pleaded guilty at the last minute in the Varsity Blues scandal, Oakland police will investigate a violent arrest of a former councilman, and Marin and Solano counties won't be facing PG&E shutoffs this week.
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 Power Begins Coming Back On In Bay Area As Winds Die Down As of early Friday morning, PG&E was turning the power back on for much of the Bay Area, however over 50,000 homes and business are still without power in Sonoma and Napa.
SF News PG&E Delays Shutoffs for Heavily Populated Parts of Bay Area; Turning Power Back On Could Take Days PG&E has said it will be delaying planned power outages for several Bay Area counties until 8 p.m. Wednesday.
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 Issues Power Shutoff Warning For Most Of Northern California Except SF This is basically an earthquake kit situation without the earthquake, and will potentially affect millions of Californians between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon.
SF News 50,000 Lose Power in Berkeley, Richmond, and Elsewhere In East Bay A PG&E equipment failure is being blamed for a Sunday morning power outage that affected around 50,000 customers.
