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How long will your perishable, refrigerated and frozen food last, without electricity? It could keep longer than you think — if you take steps to prepare right away.

PG&E officials announced Saturday that all power has been restored to customers affected by the power safety shutoffs. According to the utility, the last group of customers without power were in Amador and Calaveras counties and were restored around 6 p.m.

When the power goes out, wireless phone providers will be working to keep service online — but be prepared for limited coverage in some areas.

When the power goes out, wireless phone providers will be working to keep service online — but be prepared for limited coverage in some areas. Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura reports.

With some 800,000 PG&E customers bracing to lose power this week, many families might be worried about losing hundreds of dollars worth of groceries as their refrigerators and freezers go quiet. Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura has tips on how to keep your food from spoiling.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pushed back Friday on a U.S. judge’s revised proposals to prevent the utility’s equipment from causing more wildfires, saying it could not “monitor every tree at every moment of every day” to ensure they don’t pose a threat to its electric lines in violation of California laws.

Northern California utility Pacific Gas & Electric says it won’t award $130 million in employee bonuses because of its recent bankruptcy filing.

A U.S. judge berated Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. on Wednesday, accusing the nation’s largest utility of enriching shareholders instead of clearing trees that can fall on its power lines and start fires and making “excuses” to avoid turning off electricity when fire risk is high.

The nation’s largest utility has filed for bankruptcy in what some see as a test of how companies will deal with the fallout from climate change. Here are some questions and answers about what the bankruptcy could mean.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said this week it will file for bankruptcy, raising concern that rates for electricity and gas will rise and victims of California wildfires who are suing the nation’s largest utility won’t get all the money they may be owed.

Thousands of PG&E customers in the Bay Area were plunged into darkness early Tuesday morning, but crews were making significant progress on repairs by Tuesday evening.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced California’s largest utility to pay a $3 million fine and run television commercials publicizing its pipeline safety convictions as punishment in a criminal case stemming from a deadly natural-gas explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Since the 2010 pipeline explosion in San Bruno, the California Public Utilities Commission has faced constant criticism that it is too lax in its regulation of utility safety.

A county official in California says Pacific Gas & Electric Co. wasn’t notified that an employee would be driving a front-loader near a gas line that exploded because someone thought the driver would be working in a different area.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. investigators were at the scene Saturday of a natural gas pipeline blast at a sheriff’s gun range, as four of the 11 people injured in the explosion were released from the hospital.

At least 15 people were injured Friday afternoon in a gas line explosion that prompted the closure of Highway 99 near Fresno, authorities said.

The California Public Utilities Commission has fined Pacific Gas & Electric $530,000 for safety violations it says it found during audits that began in 2012.

After many setbacks, the California High-Speed Rail Authority is set to officially break ground on construction of its statewide bullet-train route on January 6 in Fresno. Terry McSweeney reports.

At least one Bay Area movie theater will be showing “The Interview” when it begins its limited theatrical release on Christmas Day.

Several Bay Area movie theaters will be showing “The Interview” when it begins its limited theatrical release on Christmas Day. Jean Elle reports.