Jerry Hill

Patient advocates looking to reform the maligned Medical Board of California were dealt a blow this week as the legislature passed a bill to renew the watchdog agency for four more years without significant change. The board was created to protect patients from dangerous doctors, but as the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit reported, patients can wait years for the...

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.

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.

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. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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.

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. Investigative reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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

The city of San Francisco is making a move to get into the electric business. Sergio Quintana reports.

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.

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. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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.

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. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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.

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. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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.

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. Bob Redell reports.