Category: <span>News</span>

According to KGO News, there was an explosion at 10:45 tonight, in a building on Van Ness Avenue at Washington Street. The condominium was under construction, and no one was inside when the top-floor explosion occurred.

The blast is thought to have been caused by a space-heater which had been left on, near a propane tank. Glass was blown across eight lanes of Van Ness Avenue, and destroying a restaurant awning on the opposite side.

Though the explosion blew out the glass on two sides of the building, and caused some structural damage, there were no injuries.

CNN.com has a special report on the power crisis in California.

A severe winter throughout much of the country has heated up a debate over soaring utility rates. In California the utility market is especially chaotic. Wholesale electricity prices there average $330 per megawatt-hour, 11 times higher than a year ago, and the threat of rolling blackouts has sparked outrage among consumers.

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