There’s No Easy Way to End California’s Bedeviling Blackouts November 4, 2019 By David R. Baker California residents who were incredulous after the head of PG&E Corp. signaled a decade more of blackouts face an unnerving...
Mass Blackouts Across California Are Coming to an End — For Now November 1, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan, David R. Baker and Michael B. Marois A series of deliberate blackouts that affected millions of Californians this month is coming to an end. But wildfire season...
Los Angeles and San Francisco Don’t Lose Power Even When Their Suburbs Do October 31, 2019 By David R. Baker Swaths of Southern California are being plunged into darkness on purpose to prevent power lines from sparking fires during the...
As PG&E Blackouts Ebb, Southern California Wind Risk Surges October 30, 2019 By David R. Baker, Mark Chediak and Brian K. Sullivan As Northern California residents began to get their power back, people in the Southern part of the state were facing...
Winds Whip California as 2.5 Million People Face Power Cuts October 29, 2019 By David R. Baker and Mark Chediak California utilities are warning they may cut electricity to as many as 2.5 million people to prevent power lines from...
Doing Business in California Costs One Blackout a Week October 28, 2019 By Mark Chediak It was only expected to happen a couple times a year — and just as a last resort. That’s what...
Cutting California’s Power Is Job Nobody Wants Ahead of Blackouts October 24, 2019 By Will Wade and Mark Chediak California’s governor is sparring with the state’s largest utility over who decides when to cut the power. It’s a no-win...
Thousands Could Be Affected by PG&E’s Latest Planned Power Cutoffs October 23, 2019 People in more than 180,000 homes and businesses in California could find themselves in the dark as Pacific Gas &...
Viewpoint: What Do Power Outages, Wildfires, and Vaping Bans Have in Common? October 21, 2019 By Chantal Roberts At the outset, power outages, wildfires, and vaping bans do not appear similar at all, but in the rush to...
One Massive Blackout Is Over, Now California Braces for the Next October 14, 2019 By Lynn Doan, Mark Chediak and Hailey Waller An unprecedented blackout that plunged millions of Californians into the darkness for days is over. And nobody can say when...