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Failure of underground cable causes power outage in Santa Rosa

An underground cable failed Thursday afternoon in the east Santa Rosa area causing a power outage that affected about 1,100…

7 years ago

Prosecutors urge strict probation conditions on PG&E

Federal prosecutors have urged a U.S. judge in San Francisco to impose a strict series of five-year probation conditions on…

7 years ago

Man dies in explosion outside health clinic

A man died when a pipe bomb exploded inside a health clinic in Oakland Tuesday evening in an incident that…

8 years ago

Explosion blows off PG&E manhole cover

A manhole cover blew off a PG&E vault in San Francisco's Financial District Wednesday morning.

8 years ago

Squirrel blamed for Menlo Park power outage

Menlo Park Fire Protection District officials said a squirrel is allegedly responsible for a power outage that affected 1,700 customers…

8 years ago

Potential PG&E fine slashed to $6 million

Federal prosecutors in the criminal pipeline safety trial of PG&E Co. in San Francisco Tuesday suddenly dropped their bid for…

8 years ago

Sparks fly to start PG&E pipeline trial

A criminal trial against PG&E in which the utility faces pipeline safety violation charges began Friday morning in San Francisco.

8 years ago

Propane stove explosion sends man to hospital

A Redwood City resident went to a hospital New Year's Day with burns to his face when a propane stove…

8 years ago

PG&E probes Bernal Heights blast

PG&E officials today said the cause of a transformer explosion that injured two people in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood…

9 years ago

Small explosion strikes Sunnyvale warehouse

Firefighters responded to a report of a small explosion in Sunnyvale Wednesday morning.

9 years ago

$1.6 billion fine for PG&E explosion

The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday imposed a $1.6 billion penalty, its largest ever, on PG&E for the unsafe operation of…

9 years ago

Big rig smashes into Pittsburg building

A truck driver died after crashing into two vehicles and then a building in Pittsburg this morning, a police captain…

9 years ago

Proposed PG&E fine swells to $1.6 billion

The CPUC proposed increasing to $1.6 billion a penalty for safety violations related to 2010's fatal gas pipeline explosion in…

9 years ago

Santa Cruz bomb team blasts device

Members of the Santa Cruz County Bomb Team detonated an incendiary device on Friday.

9 years ago

San Bruno: Release 65k PG&E e-mails

The city of San Bruno asked the CPUC Monday to order PG&E to release 65,000 email messages.

9 years ago

Outlook improves for hash oil blast survivors

Two men who were injured in a hash oil explosion that destroyed a Walnut Creek apartment on Halloween remain hospitalized.

10 years ago

Walnut Creek explosion injures two

The explosion in the 1500 block of Sunnyvale Avenue blew the roof off the apartment complex.

10 years ago

Teen badly burned in gunpowder blast

A father and son were using gunpowder to break up concrete fence posts when things went wrong.

10 years ago

Man blows off both hands in fireworks accident

A man in East San Jose lost both of his hands Friday night.

10 years ago

Woman arrested after hash oil explosion

An explosion led Santa Rosa police to more than 100 pounds of marijuana and a secret hash oil laboratory.

11 years ago

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