Topline: The penalty for price gouging after the fires in Los Angeles County just got a lot more expensive. The new max fine: ...

Board Chair Kathryn Barger cited a disturbing trend of price gouging, preying on the most vulnerable communities.

On Jan. 7, after California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County, rent hikes of more than 10 ...

Hydee Feldstein Soto, the L.A. city attorney, cited 10 cases in which she said that Blueground engaged in price gouging, ...

While L.A. city officials have floated tripling that penalty to $30,000, county leaders want to take it even further. Not ...

Josh Schroeder, a real estate agent who mostly works in Laguna Beach and other coastal cities in South O.C., said he’s ...

The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office filed a lawsuit this week against Blueground, a short-term rental company that ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday signed a new wildfire relief executive order ending an anti-price gouging provision that ...

County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger, who both saw swaths of their districts decimated by fire, asked county ...

Malibu real estate agent explains how you can protect yourself amid California tenancy laws after homeowners targeted in ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office has seen the number of warning letters to landlords and hotels surge to over ...

DOJ has opened several active investigations into price gouging as it continues to ramp up deployment of resources to Los Angeles County to investigate and prosecute price gouging, fraud, scams and ...