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PG&E on Monday was set to begin conducting aerial inspections of its power lines via helicopters in Sonoma County.

PG&E was set to begin conducting aerial inpections of its power lines via helicopters in Sonoma County. Cierra Johnson reports.

Pacific Gas & Electric has emerged from a contentious bankruptcy saga that began after its long-neglected electrical grid ignited wildfires in California that killed more than 100 people.

Pacific Gas & Electric’s $58 billion plan to end its contentious bankruptcy is about to clear its final hurdle.

Pacific Gas & Electric on Thursday was fined $4 million for the deaths of 84 people killed in a nightmarish Northern California wildfire ignited by its long-neglected electrical grid. The sentencing comes as the nation’s largest utility prepares to end a 17-month bankruptcy proceeding triggered by the catastrophe.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge in San Francisco on Wednesday tentatively approved PG&E’s $58 billion plan for exiting its Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

PG&E’s top executive pleaded guilty on behalf of the company on Tuesday to 84 counts of manslaughter in the 2018 Camp wildfire, the most destructive in state history.

PG&E’s top executive pleaded guilty on behalf of the company on Tuesday to 84 counts of manslaughter in the 2018 Camp wildfire, the most destructive in state history. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

Police in Fremont report that a power outage in that city is affecting multiple traffic stoplights along Mowry Avenue, Paseo Padre Parkway, Fremont Boulevard and Blacow Road.

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced Friday his office has filed a legal protest against PG&E, accusing the utility of using a new ratepayer charge to raise $7.5 million in bankruptcy-related costs.

After 115 years of having its headquarters in San Francisco, PG&E announced Monday it will move to Oakland beginning in 2022. The move to the new base at 300 Lakeside Drive will be completed in 2023, the utility said.

A federal judge in San Francisco called PG&E “a recalcitrant criminal” at a hearing on Thursday, but delayed ruling on whether to impose additional strict probation conditions aimed at preventing catastrophic wildfires.

A frustrated federal judge lashed out against PG&E about wildfire safety and soon after state regulators signed off on the utility’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken has the details.

PG&E is encouraging qualified customers to sign up for the utility’s California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program that can save them 20 percent on their monthly energy bill.

PG&E is reminding customers to update their contact information with the utility ahead of wildfire season where alerts will help notify them of possible Public Safety Power Shutoffs or other emergency information. About 57,000 PG&E customers have missing or incomplete information associated with their account, and the utility this week sent a postcard out to all of them as...

The state Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved a $1.9 billion settlement with PG&E that allows it to get credit for wildfire prevention spending while at the same time escape being fined $200 million over regulatory violations stemming from two years of massive wildfires.

After emerging from bankruptcy, PG&E will sweep out most of its board.

A federal judge ordered PG&E on Wednesday to hire its own crew of tree inspectors and keep records of the age of every piece of equipment on its transmission towers and lines to prevent future catastrophic wildfires.

PG&E will inspect natural gas transmission and distribution lines in Marin County.