In Northern California, residents often take pride in defying the norms of the state’s urban centers. Nowhere is this divide more clear than in recent elections, where rural north residents have ...

Thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers lost power Friday morning, according to the utility's outage map.

With fierce offshore winds forecast to knock Northern California this week, Pacific Gas & Electric said it's preparing to preemptively cut power to 20,142 customers in 17 counties and four tribal ...