California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta's decision not to run for governor could help clear the field for other candidates, like ...

California district attorneys sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a letter requesting he take action on illegal price gouging schemes in ...

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

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

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

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

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 everyone thinks bigger fines will fix the problem. Chelsea Kirk, who tracks ...

Blueground US Inc. illegally jacked up rents for furnished apartments in Los Angeles — more than 50% in one example — after last month’s wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes, the city ...

Rent Brigade, an online group that tracks rent increases, found more than 2,800 examples of rent gouging in LA County.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has cracked down on price gouging following the wildfires that devastated the region.