Jerry Hill

The head of the state’s Public Utilities Commission on Monday ordered PG&E to revamp its power shutdown program to avoid the kind of chaos and breakdowns that were evident in last week’s planned blackouts.

In its official accounting of the first two planned power shutdowns last month, PG&E acknowledges mistakes but also tells regulators the shutoffs allowed it to safely repair wind-driven tree limb damage to its system in Oroville, Nevada City and Berry Creek in Butte county.

A key state lawmaker is calling on state regulators to more aggressively oversee PG&E’s unprecedented wildfire safety power shutoff that could impact as many as 2.5 million people.

New photographic evidence indicates tree contact with two PG&E power lines – not the private hilltop electrical system state investigators have blamed – caused the devastating Tubbs fire, according to an expert with four decades of experience investigating electrical fires.

As PG&E announced wildfire safety shutoffs in the Sierra foothills on Monday, one top official with the bankrupt company sought to convince regulators to back a $1 billion rate hike to help counter the long-term fire threat.

The city of San Francisco is making a move to get into the electricity business.

NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned that state regulators now accuse PG&E of hindering their investigation into a dig-in accident nearly five years ago that left a San Jose worker seriously burned.

The PG&E bankruptcy judge gave Tubbs fire victims relief from legal limbo on Friday, allowing them to go to state court to try to make the case that the company sparked the most destructive of the North Bay wildfires.

A state lawmaker is urging both Cal Fire and state regulators to take another look at their findings in the massive Tubbs fire based on new video evidence uncovered by NBC Bay Area’s investigative unit.

California’s nation-leading gas prices are set to climb even higher Monday, when the state gas tax increases another 5.6 cents a gallon.

Nearly a decade after the San Bruno gas explosion triggered PG&E’s conviction for obstructing a federal investigation, state regulators have filed documents accusing the company of two dozen safety violations and the disposal of evidence in the North Bay wildfires.

Your trips on Uber and Lyft may become a little more expensive following a proposed hike by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

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.

PG&E’s inspections of thousands of transmission towers since the deadly Camp Fire in Butte County, found more than 450 safety violations, including 59 that posed serious safety hazards, NBC Bay Area has learned.

PG&E’s inspections of thousands of transmission towers since the deadly Camp Fire in Butte County found more than 450 safety violations, including 59 that posed serious safety hazards, NBC Bay Area has learned.

A two-decade old state regulatory loophole may threaten regulators’ ability to fine PG&E for any of the North Bay wildfires, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.

Documents obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit indicate PG&E was aware of safety questions on a critical transmission line years before the line likely started the deadly Camp Fire last year.

PG&E only inspected the nearly 100-year-old tower suspected of sparking the massive Camp Fire by air in the decade leading up to the disaster, records reviewed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit show.

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.