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A gas leak impacted traffic in the area of Center Parkway and Cosumnes River Boulevard Wednesday.

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A federal grand jury charged Pacific Gas & Electric on Tuesday with lying to federal investigators in connection with a fatal pipeline explosion that killed eight people and levelled a suburban Northern California neighbourhood in 2010.

PG&E Co. was charged in a revised grand jury indictment in San Francisco today with a new criminal count of obstructing justice in a probe of a fatal pipeline explosion in San Bruno in 2010, U.S. prosecutors announced this evening.

Four teens were charged Tuesday with murder in the fatal beating of a University of Southern California graduate student with a baseball bat and wrench as he walked to his off-campus apartment after meeting with a... Four teens were charged Tuesday with murder in the beating of a University of Southern California graduate student with a baseball ... (more)

A federal grand jury for the Northern District of California charged PG&E Corp on Tuesday alleging it obstructed the investigation of the National Transportation Safety Board into the deadly San Bruno natural gas explosion in 2010.

In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire following a pipeline explosion roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif.

Pacific Gas & Electric is accused of lying to regulators in connection with a fatal pipeline explosion that leveled a suburban Northern California neighborhood in 2010.

Pacific Gas & Electric is accused of lying to regulators in connection with a fatal pipeline explosion that leveled a suburban Northern California neighborhood in 2010.

Pacific Gas & Electric is accused of lying to regulators in connection with a fatal pipeline explosion that leveled a suburban Northern California neighborhood in 2010.

Tamalpais Valley residents fed up with traffic congestion got welcome news as county planning officials shuffled an unincorporated area development scenario, making key changes including dumping proposals for moderate income housing on two sites near Tam Junction.

Portland General Electric Inc. and PacifiCorp parent Berkshire Hathaway Energy ranked high in a new list tallying the clean energy deployment of the nation's top investor-owned utilities, produced by Ceres in partnership with Portland-based Clean Edge Inc. Two Northwest utilities are top performers in a new ranking that measures how investor-owned ... (more)

Pacific Gas and Electric Company officials say it was a squirrel that got into some of their electrical equipment in the Glenbrook basin that caused an outage that affected 2,205 of the utilities customers this morning.

On the front doorsteps of the California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco Monday morning, the City of San Bruno released a barrage of criticisms and demands for firings, fines, and punishments aimed at the CPUC as well as PG&E for what it calls blatantly illegal conduct: secret meetings and communications out of the public view.

At least 41 emails obtained by the city of San Bruno reveal an intimate, friendly arrangement between the monopolistic power company and the regulators that are supposed to keep them in line.

A Chief of Staff of California Public Utilities Commission president Michael Peevey advised a PG&E executive on ways to deflect a request to disclose public information.

An an old abandoned power plant in the River District will soon get new life once it transforms into the Powerhouse Science Center.

TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation: "We rate PG&E CORP a BUY.

City leaders in San Bruno are expected to make a major announcement Monday, alleging a cozy relationship between PG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission, according to a press release.

Twenty-one years after Erin Brockovich discovered the city's water contained high levels of hexavalent chromium , the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board has told Hinkley residents their once-toxic water is now safe to drink.