Explosion, San Bruno | featured news

State regulators in 2007 gave Pacific Gas and Electric Co. the go-ahead to spend $5 million of ratepayer money to replace a 62-year-old section of the same pipeline that exploded last week in San Bruno.

State and congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to impose new requirements for automatic or remote-controlled shutoff valves on pipelines after last week's San Bruno natural gas conflagration raged for nearly two hours before the fuel supply could be ...

Residents returned Sunday to the ruined hillsides of their suburban San Francisco neighborhood, three days after a natural gas pipeline exploded into a deadly fireball.

As search crews find the remains of more victims in the suburban San Francisco blast that killed at least four and injured dozens, authorities say the gas pipeline that caused the inferno was ranked as high risk.

A huge explosion apparently fueled by a ruptured gas line tore through a San Francisco suburb Thursday night, destroying about 20 homes and critically injuring a number of people.