California residents are bracing for another round of widespread, deliberate blackouts after Pacific Gas and Electric Company it may need to proactively shut off power.

Grid hardening, land-use reform, and restructuring PG&E, oh my.

Tuesday: See homes in Sea Ranch, Pasadena and Palm Springs. Also: PG&E says it’s weighing another power shut-off, and exploring East L.A.’s underground scenes.

The state's largest utility is warning that dangerous fire weather could prompt it to shut off power to about a half-million people.

PG&E Corp said on Monday about 209,000 customers could be hit by potential power cutoffs this week, less than two weeks after its most recent unprecedented shut-offs hit more than 730,000 homes and workplaces in northern California.

The utility says possible power cutoffs would be 'significantly smaller' than those that took place earlier this month.

Monday: Shedding light on Larry Itliong. Also: The benefits of immigrants to cities, and withering criticism of PG&E.

The head of California’s biggest utility, under fire over the company’s handling of a pre-emptive power shut-off, will face questioning from state regulators.

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After millions of people in California were left in the dark last week when Pacific Gas & Electric, the giant utility company that provides service to much of the state, preventatively shut off power to avoid possible wildfires, the conversation quickly turne…

Gavin Newsom says Pacific Gas and Electric Co should give credits or rebates to affected customers.

Tuesday: A special report from Oakland. Also: Gov. Gavin Newsom slams PG&E; and layoffs at Uber.

The state faces enormous challenges to prevent the catastrophic wildfires of recent years.

The lights were back on for more than 2 million Northern Californians after strong winds fueling wildfire concerns prompted a preemptive outage.

If you live in California, the answer to that is our local power company, PG&E. But they're not the only ones unilaterally shutting down their operations, users, dissent, and what have you. Here are some highlights from a ban-tastic week.

In what looked like a bona fide hellscape, waves of orange embers poured down a hillside and swept over Los Angeles' 210 freeway early Friday morning. The footage, captured by KTLA News, is a vivid depiction of the extreme fire weather propelling flames and e…

PG&E shareholders were dealt a blow on Wednesday when a California judge stripped the utility giant of exclusive control over its bankruptcy process. The decision clears the way for a rival bankruptcy plan that favors bondholders. The company also recently tu…

“I can’t say how frustrated I am,” says a city councilor in Paradise, a town that was completely razed by the 2018 fires caused by PG&E.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized PG&E for greed, mismanagement amid power cuts

As hundreds of thousands of Californians grapple with a power shutoff intended to reduce the risk of wildfires, people affected by the outages say that their communities are racked by anxiety and frustration about the disruption — as well as fear that the com…

José Cerca left his lab on the University of California, Berkeley campus Wednesday evening, the fateful day Pacific Gas and Electric began intentionally cutting power to wide swathes of Northern California. Cerca, an evolutionary biologist working at school's…

The decision to cut power in the Bay Area and elsewhere has led to residents struggling in all sorts of ways.

The utility turned off power to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of wildfires. Many could be without electricity for days.

In the last hours before power was scheduled to go out over large swaths of the Bay Area where I live, the mood was eerie, disciplined and uneasy. In Berkeley, one CVS was out of batteries and I know it wasn't the only one. REI had been sold out of solar lant…

The second phase of a safety plan intended to prevent wildfires left hundreds of thousands more without electricity.