Not everyone thinks bigger fines will fix the problem. Chelsea Kirk, who tracks price gouging through a crowdsourced spreadsheet, points to weak enforcement. "We're in week four of the wildfire ...

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

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

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

L.A. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said that a recent lawsuit against a New York-based landlord of high-end furnished apartments has emerged as her office’s biggest price-gouging case ...

Landlords caught price gouging in Los Angeles County during the wildfire crisis now face fines as high as $50,000. Board of Supervisors voted to increase the maximum penalty to $50,000 from $ ...

Colorado House Bill 1010 aims to prohibit price gouging on essential items, but critics raise concerns about its vague definition of necessities.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors directed the Office of County Counsel Tuesday to draft a resolution to increase the penalty for price gouging to a maximum of $50,000 per violation. The ...

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James alerted businesses against price gouging of eggs and poultry amid the recent national bird flu outbreak. According to a press release ...