PG&E

A bankruptcy judge in San Francisco has given final approval to Pacific Gas and Electric’s $58 billion plan for exiting Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Solano County authorities say three PG&E employees aboard a helicopter that went down in the hills outside Fairfield this afternoon while checking transmission lines, have all died.

The heat wave sweeping across the Bay Area can put a strain on PG&E’s electrical grid, and the utility is warning customers of possible power outages.

Many of us may be sheltered-in-place, but PG&E hasn’t stopped working on segmenting the power grid and preparing other factors that the company hopes will make those Public Safety Power Shutoffs less painful.

Bay Area lawmakers introduced a bill that would hold PG&E more accountable during wildfire season.

FEMA reportedly wants payback from PG&E for helping fight wildfires in Northern California, and may bill victims if the utility doesn't pay up.

Time is running out for victims of the Camp Fire to file claims with PG&E. As KCBS Radio reporter Holly Quan tells us, it's believed there are still thousands of people who haven't filed the paperwork needed before the December 31 deadline.

PG&E will deliberately cut power to customers to prevent wildfires for at least five more years, the company's chief executive said. That revises a timetable laid out by CEO Bill Johnson who had said outages would be a fact of life in the Bay Area and beyond for at least a decade.

PG&E is moving forward with its restructuring plan even after Governor Newsom rejected it, saying it fell "woefully short" of safety standards.

Governor Newsom must decide today whether or not to approve PG&E's $13.5 billion settlement with a committee representing fire victims. The settlement was announced Friday and is a key part of the company’s reorganization plan to emerge from bankruptcy. “There are definitely things in this deal...