A pair of massive natural-gas pipelines snake through the Palo Alto hills on Page Mill Road, then hug Junipero Serra Boulevard as it cuts through the Stanford University campus past the front and back yards of faculty housing and through a golf course. The pipelines then take a left onto Sand Hill Road, where they carry their volatile contents past the world’s longest linear accelerator. Read More

After hearing complaints that the investigation into last year’s pipeline explosion in San Bruno was being conducted behind closed doors far too often, on Thursday the president of the California Public Utilities Commission said he intends to open those doors a crack. Read More

The city of San Bruno on Wednesday began distributing donation checks to victims of the Sept. 9 gas pipeline explosion and fire that killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes.The San Bruno City Council decided last week that the city would distribute about $395,000 in individual and corporate donations it has received over the past four months to residents of the Glenview neighborhood whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the disaster. Read More

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. could have prevented the death of 20-year-old Jessica Morales, one of eight people who died in the inferno from the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the woman’s parents. Read More