California regulators on Thursday unanimously approved a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. rate increase of $299 million to help pay for pipeline inspection and upgrade costs in the wake of the fatal 2010 gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco Bay area suburb.

A judge on Monday temporarily suspended public hearings into possible penalties to be levied after a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in a Northern California neighborhood.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 2-inch plastic gas pipe ruptured Thursday in the same San Francisco suburb where a pipeline explosion killed eight people in 2010, prompting more than a dozen homes to be briefly evacuated.

A Pacific Gas & Electric Co. memo from a few years before the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion suggested that managers might want to consider downgrading leaks found on natural gas lines, instead of fixing them.

SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — A California soldier who died during World War II will be buried near his boyhood home after his remains were discovered on a remote island in the South Pacific.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. wants to avoid paying punitive damages to survivors of the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion, claiming in recent court filings that the blast was an accident rather than the result of mismanagement.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has agreed to pay $70 million in restitution for the 2010 pipeline explosion that killed eight people in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno, company and city officials said Monday.