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A former Pacific Gas & Electric employee was sentenced Monday to nearly two years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme to secure PG&E contracts for his cousin’s business, federal prosecutors said.

Shasta and Tehama counties sued PG&E Thursday, alleging the company’s negligence was to blame for the Zogg Fire in September. The counties are seeking costs for firefighting and restoration.

Sonoma County officials filed a $100 million negligence lawsuit Tuesday against PG&E, seeking costs for fighting the wildfire and rebuilding lands and infrastructure destroyed in the Kincade fire last year.

California, which has endured its worst wildfire season in history, is bracing for the most dangerous winds of the year, a forecast that prompted the largest utility to announce plans to cut power Sunday to nearly 1 million people to guard against its equipment sparking new blazes.

Pacific Gas & Electric may cut power to over 300,000 customers on Sunday to prevent the chance of sparking wildfires as extreme fire weather returns to the region, the utility confirmed Saturday.

A scathing report by a federal safety monitor warns about “material shortcomings” in PG&E’s tree-line clearance efforts and tower inspections heading into the heart of fire season.

When Pacific Gas & Electric intentionally cut power to Northern California last fall, few of its emergency managers had learned the fundamentals of managing an emergency in their home state

Tens of thousands of California utility customers were still without power Friday morning, though PG&E gradually started restoration efforts as a fall heat wave causing extreme wildfire danger began to subside.

PG&E on Wednesday evening began shutting off power to customers in parts of 24 California counties, including seven in the Bay Area, and the latest round of Public Safety Power Shutoffs were expected to impact about 53,000 customers in Northern California.

Fire-weary California prepared Saturday for a new siege of hot, dry weather with potentially strong winds that could cause power lines to arc and spark new blazes in parched vegetation that’s ready to burn.

Wednesday masked exactly 10 years since the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion. Though the city couldn’t hold its annual ceremony, it put up a new kiosk to memorialize the day and the aftermath.

A CPUC audit found that PG&E’s distribution power lines spark two and half times more fires per mile compared to other utilities, a rate that regulators found poses a “serious risk” to the state as the heart of fire season approaches.

California has ordered rolling power outages for the first time since 2001 as a statewide heat wave strained its electrical system

Pacific Gas & Electric transmission lines sparked a wildfire in Northern California wine country last year that destroyed hundreds of homes and caused nearly 100,000 people to flee, fire officials said Thursday.

Pacific Gas & Electric is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to 84 felony counts of involuntary manslaughter during a court hearing in which the nation’s largest utility will be confronted with its history of neglect and greed that culminated in a wildfire that killed 85 people and wiped out most of a Northern California town. The hearing before Butte County…

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

The Northern California victims of catastrophic wildfires caused by Pacific Gas & Electric’s decaying electrical grid will have at least $19 million siphoned way from a $13.5 billion fund for their losses to cover administrative costs. A bankruptcy judge said he would approve drawing from the victims’ fund as part of a plan reviewed Tuesday during a court hearing. The…

Pacific Gas & Electric will plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for a swath of death and destruction left behind after its fraying electrical grid ignited a 2018 wildfire that decimated three Northern California towns and drove the nation’s largest utility into bankruptcy.

Pacific Gas & Electric on Monday won court approval to raise $23 billion to help pay its bills over destructive California wildfires after Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped his opposition to a financing package designed to help the nation’s largest utility get out of bankruptcy. The milestone reached during an unusual court hearing held by phone moves PG&E closer to...