Sharon McNary

The settlement ends lawsuits brought by state and local governments over the massive gas leak near Porter Ranch.

Nearly one million Southern California Edison customers have been opted into something called the Clean Power Alliance, agovernment entity that can buy power directly on the open energy market and ship it to consumers on existing Edison power lines.

One-fifth of all Southern California Edison customers have been opted by local governments into the Clean Power Alliance, a separate, government-run power utility that buys power on the open market and ships it to you on Edison power lines.

The new commercial trash hauling system was supposed to be cleaner and greener, but the higher prices led to sticker shock. Now the city and haulers will refund millions of dollars in recycling fees -- to avoid a lawsuit.

Southern California Gas has pleaded with residents to turn down their thermostats to save limited gas supplies repeatedly this year. We explain why.

LA's utility, DWP, was considering plans to spend $5 billion to replace its three gas-powered plants with new plants, but now it's considering whether to use that money on new forms of energy storage and added solar power instead.

Refineries in Torrance and Wilmington have had 10 small leaks of modified hydrofluoric acid, which is potentially deadly, in just the past two years.

It's just about the worst place in L.A. for a sewer line to collapse because it's so inaccessible to repair crews.

An oil well blew earlier this month at a hotel construction site in Marina del Rey. It took county officials more than a week to inform local residents.

When it rains, the Los Angeles County Flood Control system mainly works to channel stormwater runoff to the ocean. But about 28 percent of that rain is captured before it's lost to the Pacific.

During a storm, when roads are flooding and mud is flowing, critical decisions get made at the Los Angeles County Public Works operations center in Alhambra.

During the New Year's cold snap, power plants reduced operations, SoCal Gas customers were asked to lower their thermostats and people who are enrolled in a special conservation program had their thermostats lowered automatically.