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A year into a pandemic, this bar outside Yosemite still refuses to follow COVID-19 rules FacebookTwitterEmail Tom Nelson, Robbie Nelson, Suzanne Hicks and Gordon Hicks hanging out at Airport Bar on a Saturday night.Ashley Harrell Airport Inn Bar & Grill is an all-American saloon in Yosemite National Parks gateway town of Mariposa. Its beloved by many long-time residents, and legendary for its comfort food. It also openly defied the regional stay-at-home order to shut down in December, and its r...

A year into a pandemic, this bar outside Yosemite still refuses to follow COVID-19 rules FacebookTwitterEmail Tom Nelson, Robbie Nelson, Suzanne Hicks and Gordon Hicks hanging out at Airport Bar on a Saturday night.Ashley Harrell Airport Inn Bar & Grill is an all-American saloon in Yosemite National Parks gateway town of Mariposa. Its beloved by many long-time residents, and legendary for its comfort food. It also openly defied the regional stay-at-home order to shut down in December, and its r...

So you want to leave California for Texas? Think again Dennis Herrera FacebookTwitterEmail Companies fixin’ to leave California for Texas just got a wake-up call. Sure, taxes are cheaper in the Lone Star State, but as in most things in life, you get what you pay for. Texas’ infrastructure and its leadership simply weren’t up to the task of dealing with a winter storm that was both historic and predicted. Besides killing at least 26 people and bringing misery to millions of Texans, this st...

Victims fund sues 22 former PG&E officials over 2017-2018 wildfires - wants more money FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Former PG&E CEO Geisha Williams — fire victims want more money from her and other former company executives.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2017Show MoreShow Less 2of5 Former PG&Electric CEO Tony Earley in 2014 — he is one of 24 company executives and board members being sued by victims of wildfires.Russell Yip / The Chronicle 2014Show MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 The aftermath of the Camp...

What California needs to do to avoid a Texas-style electricity crisis FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 A cyclist rides through the pier plaza in Huntington Beach during last August’s California heat wave, which caused rolling power blackouts resulting from high demand.Paul Bersebach / Associated Press 2020Show MoreShow Less 2of5 The Bonneville Power Administration transmission line in central Oregon, which connects the Northwest electric power grid to California.Bonneville Power AdministrationShow M...

Feb. 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Last year, metallic balloons caused about 450 outages in PG&E’s service area in Northern and central California, halting power to more than 250,000 homes and businesses, the utility reported.ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Valentines Day balloon filled with helium drifted into a power line Sunday, sparking an outage that temporarily plunged more than 2,300 Fresno households into the dark. Pacific Gas & Electric spokeswo...

Why the massive power outages in Texas are so much worse than Californias summer blackouts FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 People wait in line at a mall to get inside an H-E-B supermarket in Round Rock, Texas, on February 16, 2021. Millions were left without power as a deadly winter storm gripped the southern and central United States Tuesday. Hardest hit was Texas, where freezing conditions prompted utility companies to implement rotating blackouts to stop the power grid being overloaded by the surg...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Valentines Day balloon filled with helium drifted into a power...

Electric leadership in small California town Feb. 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A view of some of the 749,088 solar panels at the California Valley Solar Farm near Santa Margarita (San Luis Obispo County) in 2015.Michael Macor / The Chronicle 2015 If California is lucky, our energy future could look like a small town in the rural Salinas Valley. Longtime readers of this column will not be surprised to learn that the town in question is Gonzales, the California municipal version of the “Little...

Neighborhood Spotlight: Financial District Feb. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail San Francisco skyline and Bay Bridge at sunset.Shutterstock The Transamerica Pyramid alone makes San Francisco’s skyline one of the most identifiable on Earth, but there’s plenty of other architectural gems in the Financial District. Home to Fortune 500 headquarters, consulates and landmarks, San Francisco’s Financial District serves as a thriving hub in one of the world’s most famous cities. The blocks of the ...