Last January, a series of massive wildfires broke out across the Los Angeles area, fueled by high winds and dry temperatures. The fires raged for weeks, incinerating entire neighborhoods in the ...

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta accused real estate agent Iman Shaghyan this week of increasing the price of a Beverly Hills rental by more than 30% in the days after the Jan. 7 fires. It's the fourth ...

President Trump accused big oil companies this week of price gouging on gas prices at the pump. But little real evidence ...

The devastating wildfires continuing to rage through Los Angeles County have claimed at least 10 lives so far according to officials, destroyed over 9,000 buildings and forced around 180,000 people to ...

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott has asked residents of his state to send him examples of “price gouging” at Florida hospitals, according to a Palm Beach Post report. “In order to better understand the ...

The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office is getting crushed by gouging “referrals from all over the city,” with the staff investigating some 900 allegations of landlords skirting post-wildfire pricing ...

A small army of activists has mobilized to try to hold landlords accountable for price gouging on their rental listings after the Los Angeles wildfires. The wildfires around Los Angeles this month ...

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Los Angeles County supervisors want to raise the stakes for post-wildfire price gouging, hammering landlords who dramatically hike rents with fines of up to $50,000. Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Thursday his office is actively investigating and preparing criminal charges against landlords, real estate agents and other businesses that have raised ...