August 21, 2020 LIVE UPDATES: Bay Area Lightning Fires Keep Growing By Silicon Valley Newsroom The latest news about the SCU and CZU fire complexes surrounding Santa Clara County, where some evacuation orders remain in effect. Read More 5
August 21, 2020 Overnight Growth Makes SCU Complex California’s Biggest Fire By Jennifer Wadsworth In three major clusters, they darkened skies, forced thousands to flee home and pushed California’s firefighting capacity to the brink. Read More 0
August 20, 2020 Evacuation Orders Expanded in Eastern Santa Clara County By Silicon Valley Newsroom Cal Fire announced new evacuation orders for the eastern edge of Santa Clara County, where the SCU Complex keeps growing. Read More 0
August 20, 2020 Lick Observatory Survives Fire, But SCU Complex Continues Rapid Spread in East Foothills By Jennifer Wadsworth Mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect for the San Jose foothills, with an advisory issued for the city’s East Side. Read More 1
August 20, 2020 SCU Complex Grows to 140,000 Acres; Just 5 Percent Contained By Jennifer Wadsworth The skies may have cleared up, but evacuation orders and advisories remain in effect today as the SCU Complex continues to rage. Read More 0
August 19, 2020 UPDATE: Evacuations Now Ordered in Santa Clara County as Lightning Complex Fires Grow By Tony Nuñez Cal Fire has ordered tens of thousands of residents in several counties in and around Santa Clara Valley to find shelter elsewhere. Read More 0
October 27, 2019 PG&E Power Outage Impacts 22,500 Residents in San Jose By Grace Hase At a Sunday morning press conference, Deputy City Manager Kip Harkness said the impact to San Jose is “relatively small.” Read More 5
May 1, 2019 Funding Uncertainty Threatens Future of Silicon Valley’s Oldest Vocational Training Center By Jennifer Wadsworth Without more funding, officials say the Metropolitan Education District will become insolvent within the next few years. Read More 10
January 30, 2019 The Big Problem This Bankruptcy Won’t Solve for PG&E By Judy Lin, CALmatters PG&E may be solvent, but it is facing a cash flow problem as a byproduct of $30 billion in potential liabilities from a series of catastrophic fires. Read More 4
January 28, 2019 Cal Fire: Tubbs Caused by Private Electric System, Not PG&E By Tom Gogola Cal Fire issued a statement and report last week identifying a private power system—and not PG&E—as the culprit in the deadly 2017 wildfire. Read More 2
January 18, 2019 Will PG&E Customers Pay More in Bankruptcy? Not if State Watchdog Group Can Stop It By Judy Lin, CALmatters The state says PG&E customers should not pay for the utility’s misdeeds if it was responsible for two of the most destructive wildfires. Read More 3
November 23, 2018 Why Does PG&E Get to Decide When to Turn Off the Power? By Tom Gogola Will lawmakers de-energize PG&E’s power to shut off the juice when the Red Flag warnings start flying again next year? Read More 3
October 10, 2017 North Bay Continues Battle with Wind-Whipped Firestorm: ‘It Looks Like a Nuclear Wasteland’ By Stett Holbrook and Tom Gogola The North Bay firestorms left much of Santa Rosa a smoking ruin, and took at least 15 lives and left authorities looking for 150 people. Read More 8
November 18, 2016 Local Wildfires Likely to Increase as Forests’ Ecosystems Change By Kara Guzman The peak of the Santa Cruz Mountains looked like an erupting volcano as the Loma fire burned 4,474 acres. Such fires are expected to increase. Read More 2
August 19, 2016 NorCal Timber Conflicts Flare Up; Environmentalists Call for Relief By Will Parrish After an era of quiet compared to the so-called timber wars of the 1980s and ’90s, conflict over logging in Northern California forests has returned. Read More 7