Explosive anger was a top contender for emotion of the year in 2021. A month-by-month look at some of the stories.

With California wildfires, it seems that every year brings a new record for “more”: More acres, more frequent, more extreme, more deaths, more destruction.

More than 50 hours after a gas leak was first reported, PG&E released detailed information, in response to questions from San Jose Inside, about the Wednesday leak that had forced the evacuation of hundreds of San Jose residents.

A gas line ruptured by a private contractor near Race Street and Eugene Avenue forced the evacuation Wednesday afternoon of approximately 325 homes in a neighborhood west of San Jose Diridon Station.

About the same time and the same location as the 35-acre Silicon Fire, PG&E responded to a report that metallic balloons had come into contact with transmission lines.

Most of the fine will be paid as credits on customer utility bills.

A gas pipe was struck during construction on a residential unit earlier that morning.

The order requires, among other things, for PG&E to submit within 90 days a “corrective action plan."

Residents living east of Milpitas near the Calaveras Reservoir are expected to lose power at 8pm.

PG&E said blackouts would last just a few hours, but many San Jose residents said they were left without power for much longer than that.

Californians are being asked to reduce energy use through Wednesday, but officials called off a second night of rolling blackouts in the Bay Area.

PG&E customers in parts of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Joaquin Counties will have their power cut starting Saturday night.

A coalition of city leaders is urging the CPUC to restructure PG&E from an investor-run company to one that’s customer-owned. 

At a Sunday morning press conference, Deputy City Manager Kip Harkness said the impact to San Jose is “relatively small.”

PG&E’s second planned power outage of the month is expected to start tonight as high winds kick up and create a heightened fire risk.

The public safety power shutoff, which is being enacted by the utility giant to curb fire risk, is expected to last from Saturday to Monday.