The state of California maintains a list of areas designated as disasters and where price gouging is illegal under the statute Penal Code 396. “Gouging” is defined as raising the rent − or ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom extended price gouging protections on rental housing Thursday, while the state’s top law enforcement official vowed to crack down on landlords who are ignoring the rules ...

How many people thought that the B.C. carbon tax was applied against the amount of gas used? Not so. There’s a much bigger gouge to be had. From Nov. 22 to Dec. 24, I used $50.18 worth of ...

The attorney general’s office has set up a new website where Angelenos can report examples of apparent price gouging: oag.ca.gov/lafires. The office also has a new hotline to handle complaints ...

Jason Oppenheim, star of Netflix's "Selling Sunset," has accused Los Angeles landlords of illegally price gouging rental rates amid the city's devastating fires. In an interview with the BBC's ...

Landlords decide to raise them — and there’s evidence that’s happening all over LA right now, despite laws designed to prevent them from price-gouging during an emergency. See here ...

As thousands of Californians flee the ongoing Palisades and Eaton fires in Southern California, authorities are cracking down on potential price gouging. Under California Penal Code 396(c ...

But unscrupulous landlords who are jacking up prices are making it hard. "The price gouging is going haywire, it's obscene," the 50-year-old stylist told AFP. "I can't find anywhere for us to go." ...

who noted that his own office had yet to be presented by its law enforcement counterparts with price gouging cases, nevertheless explained that it would seek maximum punishment for such offensives ...

In response to the Los Angeles fires, Airbnb has restricted hosts in affected counties from raising prices more than 10% to prevent price gouging, aligning with California's state of emergency laws.

He offered his brokerage’s services for free to those who were impacted and was one of the first notable figures to sound the alarm about illegal price gouging. “Landlords shouldn’t be ...