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It was 5:04 p.m. on October 17, 1989, when a powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook the soft soil of San Francisco’s Marina District, crumpling the neighborhood’s old wooden buildings like paper, and sending a cascade of splintered wood and glass into the streets. With water pipes and fire hydrants disabled by the quake, the fire department responded with a rarely-used…

It was 5:04 p.m. on October 17, 1989, when a powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook the soft soil of San Francisco’s Marina District, crumpling the neighborhood’s old wooden buildings like paper, and sending a cascade of splintered wood and glass into the streets. With water pipes and fire hydrants disabled by the quake, the fire department responded with a rarely-used...

Back in 2007, PG&E hired a low-key outsider, Ed Salas, to help assess the risks it faced. Although he lacked engineering experience, Salas had a background evaluating corporate risks in the telecommunications industry. When he got to the utility, Salas soon realized the enormity of his task.

Small earthquakes rattled already shaken residents overnight in the Mojave Desert community of Ridgecrest, where the cleanup continues from two major quakes.

Small earthquakes rattled already shaken residents overnight in the Mojave Desert community of Ridgecrest, where the cleanup continues from two major quakes.

A PG&E insider is making new allegations against the company’s already troubled gas-line mark and locate program, saying workers there were under so much pressure to satisfy their bosses that they resorted to illicitly doing highly dangerous work they weren’t trained to do around live electrical lines.

Two San Francisco residents filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the construction company and contractors involved in a gas line rupture that caused a three-alarm fire earlier this month on Geary Boulevard.

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board arrived late Thursday at the site of a natural gas explosion in San Francisco that sent flames into the sky for hours and damaged five buildings.

Massive flames from a gas explosion destroyed five buildings in San Francisco’s busy Geary Boulevard Wednesday afternoon — including a popular Chinese restuarant — and prompted evacuations within a one-mile radius of the fire zone but resulted in no injuries, firefighters said.

NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned that PG&E submitted as many as a quarter of a million false on-time inspection reports to state regulators under its program aimed at preventing accidental dig-ins on its gas lines.

Despite its threatened bankruptcy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s board of directors just gave a top gas executive a hefty pay raise, according to federal regulatory records.

Despite its threatened bankruptcy, Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s board of directors just gave a top gas executive a hefty pay raise, according to federal regulatory records, even though that executive was recently called in to account for allegations the company filed thousands of false records.

PG&E says it shook up management in light of what it calls “unacceptable” conduct by unspecified managers who regulators say exerted pressure on crews to falsify “tens of thousands” of gas safety inspections as being on time when they were late.

Two people were taken into custody Monday morning after a car slammed into a residential building in west San Jose, rupturing a gas line in the process and forcing the evacuation of more than one dozen residents, according to officials.

The company at the center of the natural gas explosions in Massachusetts in September says it has restored gas service to about 60 percent of affected homes, but nearly 1,760 families remain in temporary housing. The Sept. 13 blasts in Andover, Lawrence and North Andover destroyed or damaged more than 130 structures, injured dozens and left at least one person dead.

Paramount Ranch’s Western Town in Agoura Hills, which was recently destroyed by the Woolsey Fire, could get rebuilt through a fundraising effort announced Friday.

Residents at a mobile home development in Hayward have been out of water since Sunday due to a water main breakage and officials say it probably won’t be fixed until Friday.

Pacific Gas and Electric faces $5.05 million in state regulatory fines stemming from two separate incidents, one in Deer Park and the other in Yuba City, the Public Utilities Commission announced Tuesday.

A series of gas explosions an official described as “Armageddon” ignited dozens of fires across three communities north of Boston, killed at least one person and forced entire neighborhoods in the Merrimack Valley to evacuate Thursday. Authorities said Leonel Rondon, 18, of Lawrence, died after a chimney toppled by an exploding house crashed into his car. He was rushed to...