California Governor Newsom Is Fielding More PG&E Takeover Calls November 14, 2019 By David R. Baker and Romy Varghese For California Governor Gavin Newsom, sitting back and watching PG&E Corp.’s bankruptcy run its course is no longer an option....
PG&E Faces Strict Probation Judge After Massive Kincade Fire November 12, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt For the first time since a fire last month scorched 77,758 acres of northern California, PG&E Corp. returns to the...
PG&E Sees Up to $6.3 Billion in Costs From Fires, Bankruptcy November 7, 2019 By Mark Chediak and Will Wade PG&E Corp., the California, that went bankrupt in January after its equipment sparked deadly wildfires, expects as much as $6.3...
Wildfire Forecasters Race to Stay Ahead of Unpredictable Flames November 6, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan Predicting what a wildfire will do is no simple matter. When the Getty wildfire erupted in California a week ago,...
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...
California Governor Threatens To Step in and ‘Restructure’ PG&E November 3, 2019 By Mark Chediak California Governor Gavin Newsom threatened a state takeover of PG&E Corp. unless the beleaguered utility giant makes a swift exit...
Fire-Ravaged Forests Get Help from Pine Cone Collectors October 28, 2019 By Susan Montoya Bryan ALONG THE BURNT MESA TRAIL, N.M. — With snow ready to fall, the scramble was on to collect as many...
California Wine Country Fire Began Near Damaged PG&E Tower, 2,000 Flee October 28, 2019 By Stephen Lam GEYSERVILLE, Calif. — A wind-driven wildfire that forced some 2,000 people to flee homes in Northern California’s wine country on...
California Blackouts Spread South as Fire Risk Follows the Wind October 25, 2019 By Mark Chediak, David R. Baker and Brian K. Sullivan Even as winds subside in Northern California and PG&E Corp. prepares to restore electricity, blackouts are spreading south in a...
Californians Endure Blackouts Again as Wildfire Threat Increases October 24, 2019 By Mark Chediak, David R. Baker and Brian K. Sullivan California utilities are once again cutting electricity to prevent wildfires, in the first stage of a mass blackout that could...