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 ...

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

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

Short-term rental start-up Blueground illegally jacked up the cost of its LA listings as much as 56 percent, the city ...

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

The Los Angeles city attorney's office has filed a lawsuit against real estate firm Blueground, alleging it violated ...

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 proposed increasing the current $10,000 fine for price gouging up to $50,000 in ...

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

The tragic Los Angeles area wildfires have prompted thorough newspaper reporting, but they also have resulted in clickbait ...