Garance Burke

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Judge: California must weigh water bank’s impact

Garance Burke · October 3, 2014 10:34 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire following a pipeline explosion roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Top California regulators communicated often and enthusiastically with executives at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., even offering unsolicited advice on handling the media while they presided over a case to decide how much the utility should pay for a deadly explosion in a San Francisco Bay Area suburb, according to a trove of emails released Monday, July 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

City: Emails show ‘cozy’ ties of PG&E, regulator

Garance Burke · July 28, 2014 9:38 pm

FILE - In this May 1, 2014 photo, irrigation water runs along a dried-up ditch between rice farms in Richvale, Calif. In dry California, water is fetching record high prices. As drought has deepened in the last few months, a handful of special districts in the state's agricultural heartland have made millions through auctions of their private, underground caches that go to the highest bidders. With the unregulated, erratic water market heating up in anticipation of the hot summer months, the price is only going up. In the last five years alone, it has grown tenfold, shooting to as much as $2,200 an acre foot. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, FILE)

In dry California, water fetching record prices

Garance Burke · July 2, 2014 5:32 am

This undated image provided by the FBI shows Ryan Kelly Chamberlain, II, who is being sought by the FBI, who has issued a nationwide alert to law enforcement agencies about this man they consider armed and dangerous who is wanted for investigation of possessing explosives. (AP Photo/ FBI)

FBI issues nationwide alert for San Francisco man

Garance Burke · June 2, 2014 1:36 pm

FBI issues alert for subject of Calif. home search

Garance Burke · June 2, 2014 4:26 am

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010, file photo, a massive fire roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pleaded not guilty Monday, April 21, 2014, to a dozen felony charges stemming from alleged safety violations in a deadly 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion that leveled a suburban neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. As survivors of the blast looked on, attorneys for California's largest utility entered the plea in federal court in San Francisco to 12 felony violations of federal pipeline safety laws. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

PG&E pleads not guilty in fatal pipeline blast

Garance Burke · April 21, 2014 10:27 pm

Gregg Lemler, vice president of transmission operations for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., listens to questions at a news conference in San Francisco, Thursday, April 10, 2014. PG&E offered a $250,000 reward on Thursday for information leading to an arrest and conviction in an attack nearly a year ago on phone lines and the power grid in Silicon Valley. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

PG&E offers $250K reward in California grid attack

Garance Burke · April 10, 2014 11:56 pm

PG&E: Federal criminal charges likely in gas blast

Garance Burke · March 27, 2014 6:04 pm

Commission legal team probing PG&E blast resigns

Garance Burke · June 6, 2013 12:12 am

Oil industry: BLM prevents job creation in Calif.

Garance Burke · May 10, 2013 1:29 am

BLM postpones oil, gas lease auctions in Calif.

Garance Burke · May 8, 2013 12:14 am

This frame grab taken from video provided by Roxana and Carlos Guzman shows a Limo on fire Saturday, May 4, 2013, on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge in San Francisco. Five dead female bodies were found pressed up against the partition behind the driver, where they apparently tried to escape the smoke and fire that kept them from the rear exits of the extended passenger compartment. (AP Photo/Roxana and Carlos Guzman)

Limo driver: Fire took 3 minutes to claim 5 lives

Garance Burke, Martha Mendoza · May 6, 2013 4:00 am