A residential gas line ruptured Saturday night after a vehicle collided with a building, prompting a temporary shelter-in-place order and resulting in minor injuries for two people, officials said. The incident occurred in the 2800 block of Francisco Street, between Larkin…
A Chevrolet Trailblazer slammed into a utility pole on Silverado Trail in Napa Wednesday morning, downing live wires, shutting a stretch of the road, and cutting electricity to more than 1,000 customers. The crash happened near the Pope Street intersection and…
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is warning about 25,000 prospective customers that they could be forced to wait as long as six months beyond their scheduled connection dates to get power, as the utility postpones $2 billion in planned spending amid uncertainty…
FILE: Transmission power lines stretch over the hills in Oakland, Calif. Overnight Wednesday, the National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for the interior mountains in the North Bay and East Bay. Winds in those areas could see gusts…
PG&E had shut off power to 6,824 customers in five Bay Area counties as of Thursday morning as a safety measure ahead of forecasted high winds and dry conditions. PG&E said that as of 6 a.m., the outages affected 3,158 customers in…
More than 11,000 PG&E customers in the Bay Area could see dayslong power outages starting Wednesday as part of the utility’s proactive shutoffs to avoid its equipment from sparking wildfires. Robert Handa reports. PG&E implements what it calls Public…
Downtown Novato lost power for hundreds of customers Wednesday morning, darkening traffic signals across the area and prompting local police to warn drivers to treat affected intersections as four-way stops. The outage struck 912 customers and was reported at 8:44 a.m., according to…
A large, unplanned power outage knocked out electricity to Bayview and Visitacion Valley Tuesday morning, leaving roughly 2,694 PG&E customers in the dark across San Francisco's southeastern neighborhoods. The disruption, first flagged in a social media alert, is the latest…
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