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Postal package explodes at Alameda home
A package sent through the U.S. Postal Service exploded Friday at a home on Bay Farm Island in Alameda.Read More
Elderly man dies after apartment explodes
A elderly man died after an explosion and fire ripped through an apartment near Pleasant Hill Thursday evening.Read More
Failure of underground cable causes power outage in Santa Rosa
An underground cable failed Thursday afternoon in the east Santa Rosa area causing a power outage that affected about 1,100 customers in the city.Read More
Prosecutors urge strict probation conditions on PG&E
Federal prosecutors have urged a U.S. judge in San Francisco to impose a strict series of five-year probation conditions on PG&E when he sentences the utility on Jan. 23...Read More
Man dies in explosion outside health clinic
A man died when a pipe bomb exploded inside a health clinic in Oakland Tuesday evening in an incident that investigators are calling an apparent suicide.Read More
Explosion blows off PG&E manhole cover
A manhole cover blew off a PG&E vault in San Francisco's Financial District Wednesday morning.Read More
Squirrel blamed for Menlo Park power outage
Menlo Park Fire Protection District officials said a squirrel is allegedly responsible for a power outage that affected 1,700 customers in Menlo Park.Read More
Potential PG&E fine slashed to $6 million
Federal prosecutors in the criminal pipeline safety trial of PG&E Co. in San Francisco Tuesday suddenly dropped their bid for an enhanced fine of $562 million.Read More
Sparks fly to start PG&E pipeline trial
A criminal trial against PG&E in which the utility faces pipeline safety violation charges began Friday morning in San Francisco.Read More
Propane stove explosion sends man to hospital
A Redwood City resident went to a hospital New Year's Day with burns to his face when a propane stove he was lighting blew up.Read More
PG&E probes Bernal Heights blast
PG&E officials today said the cause of a transformer explosion that injured two people in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood this weekend is under investigation. The explosion, reported at...Read More
Small explosion strikes Sunnyvale warehouse
Firefighters responded to a report of a small explosion in Sunnyvale Wednesday morning.Read More
$1.6 billion fine for PG&E explosion
The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday imposed a $1.6 billion penalty, its largest ever, on PG&E for the unsafe operation of its gas transmission system and the deadly pipeline rupture...Read More
Big rig smashes into Pittsburg building
A truck driver died after crashing into two vehicles and then a building in Pittsburg this morning, a police captain said. Officers responded shortly after 8:20 a.m. to the...Read More
Proposed PG&E fine swells to $1.6 billion
The CPUC proposed increasing to $1.6 billion a penalty for safety violations related to 2010's fatal gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno.Read More
Santa Cruz bomb team blasts device
Members of the Santa Cruz County Bomb Team detonated an incendiary device on Friday.Read More
San Bruno: Release 65k PG&E e-mails
The city of San Bruno asked the CPUC Monday to order PG&E to release 65,000 email messages.Read More
Outlook improves for hash oil blast survivors
Two men who were injured in a hash oil explosion that destroyed a Walnut Creek apartment on Halloween remain hospitalized.Read More
Walnut Creek explosion injures two
The explosion in the 1500 block of Sunnyvale Avenue blew the roof off the apartment complex.Read More
Teen badly burned in gunpowder blast
A father and son were using gunpowder to break up concrete fence posts when things went wrong.Read More