SF News Two New Photos Suggest PG&E At Fault for Tubbs Fire In Santa Rosa With new expert opinions and recently discovered photos, the case is clear(er): PG&E’s power lines likely sparked the Tubbs Fire.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Holds Off On North Bay Power Shutoffs The SF Homeless Outreach Team got its budget extended despite reported lack of results, evidence revealed in murder trial of Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat is chilling, and cell providers say they can't guarantee service during wildfires.
SF News Napa and Sonoma To Keep Power On Monday, Still May Lose Power Tuesday PG&E just announced that it will be keeping power flowing to Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties today, though as the hot, dry weather is expected to continue tomorrow and Wednesday, they're not totally in the clear.
SF News Power Outage Shuts Down Muni Metro, Impacts 22,000 Customers In SF A PG&E power outage that extends from Dogpatch and Mission Bay to Twin Peaks has caused a rush-hour nightmare for Muni commuters as all Muni Metro service was stopped as a result.
SF News SF May Own Its Own Electrical Grid By Buying It From Bankrupt PG&E San Francisco leaders have been thinking about this for a while, and now the city has offered PG&E $2.5 billion to purchase its SF electrical grid.
SF News Power Goes Out For 4,000 In Japantown and Cathedral Hill PG&E and the Bay Area apparently can't handle the heat, and following large power outages Tuesday that impacted 17,000 households and businesses outside of San Francisco, two new outages are impacting a swath of the city and Lafayette.
SF News [Updated] BART Has Major Systemwide Delays As Transbay Tube Shuts Down All BART service through the Transbay Tube was halted Thursday afternoon due to a damaged gas pipe in West Oakland, and this is going to be a mess of a commute.
SF News PG&E 'Recloser' Devices Implicated As Possible Wildfire Cause As Another Lawsuit Is Filed Three more North Bay families are expected to file a lawsuit against PG&E Thursday, implicating the utility in the devastating wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino
SF News CA Legislators Seek To Block PG&E From Passing Fire Costs On To Customers As PG&E is potentially facing a torrent of litigation in connection with the Northern California wildfires this month, in addition to the costs of repairing or replacing infrastructure and power lines
SF News PG&E Was Cited For Multiple Power Line Maintenance Issues In Sonoma County In Recent Years The truth is going to arrive slowly, and perhaps incompletely, in the investigation into the causes of the multiple Northern California wildfires that sprung into deadly strength the night of October 8. But
SF News First Lawsuit Filed Against PG&E Over Wine Country Fires A state senator is suggesting that PG&E will have to be broken up if it turns out to be found guilty of negligence in causing the wildfires that ripped through Northern
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Being Built From Trees Killed In Drought You’ll notice this year’s Burning Man Temple looks a lot different than previous years’ laser cut jigsaw designs of David Best. Best has handed off the task to his previous lead
SF News Early Morning Power Outage Hits East Bay In Midst Of Statewide Flex Alert Flex Alert: Californians Urged To Conserve Electricity Amid Heat Wave « CBS San Francisco - https://t.co/Gwh5kayTwH (In triple digit temps.)— Blue Beach Song™ (@BlueBeachSong) June 20, 2017 Thousands of PG&
SF News Derick Almena Said To Be Having Mental Breakdown In Jail; Wife Speaks Out Wife of man charged in #GhostShip fire breaks her silence: “We would never have lived in a place that was unsafe.” https://t.co/w7XB0ZSzZQ pic.twitter.com/PXz63ueA10— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) June 10,
SF News Dispatch Transcripts Indicate PG&E Foot-Dragging During Last Month's Blackout The involuntary three-day weekend caused the Friday, April 21 San Francisco blackout has already raised substantial ire toward California utility company and supervillain collective PG&E, and a newly acquired batch of
SF News Utility Vault Explodes Near Union Square, Shutting Down Several Streets An underground utility vault, the kind that occasionally explodes and sends a manhole cover flying, exploded this morning at 9:40 a.m. at the intersection of Mason and Cyril Magnin Streets, near
SF News SF Businesses File Big Claims Against PG&E Over Last Month's Blackout Today marks three weeks to the day since the massive downtown PG&E blackout of April 21 that lasted eight hours, affected some 95,000 customers, and throwing the Financial District into
SF News City Pens Angry Letter To PG&E About Blackout, Says Communication That Day Was 'Nonexistent' City officials are tallying up the economic impacts of Friday's eight-hour blackout which affected some of the densest and busiest parts of San Francisco, shutting down 21 schools and impacting countless businesses for
SF News Post Blackout, Mayor Ed Lee Calls For Review Of SF's PG&E Substations Though many were quick to think there was something more nefarious going on Friday when multiple major cities experienced significant power outages (or just Mercury retrograde?), the FBI and PG&E confirmed
SF News PG&E Website Shows Only One Outer Sunset Home Affected During Mass Power Outage PG&E's supposedly real-time outage map, on their website, was nearly blank for San Francisco well over an hour into this morning's mass power outage with the exception of a single reported
SF News [Update] Power Knocked Out In Multiple SF Neighborhoods By Substation Fire In Tenderloin A large power outage was impacting the morning commute and potentially making for an early start to the weekend for some Financial District workers. PG&E initially said that 13,000 customers
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 Day Around The Bay: Potential PG&E Safety Fine Reduced From $562M To $6M Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Grizzly bears are on our state flag, but haven't
SF News PG&E Trial Closes With Prosecutor Saying The Utility Had 'Lost Its Way' Testimony in the federal criminal trial against PG&E concluded Wednesday, and the prosecutor in the case didn't go out without some scathing rebukes of the company's mismanagement and greed that led
