Banning grocery price gouging is a sensible policy designed to protect consumers in times of special need.

Tenants are inundating government and non-government agencies with complaints of price gouging, according to the Housing Rights Center. A review of Zillow listings by The New York Times found that ...

The state of California maintains a list of areas designated as disasters and where price gouging is illegal under the statute Penal Code 396. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

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 ...

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 ...

Los Angeles landlords are being accused of price gouging, but some say they’re just keeping up with the demand from desperate, deep-pocketed people who are making over-the-top offers in order to ...

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 ...

raising concerns of potential price gouging in the state during the Southern California wildfires as Los Angeles authorities revealed to Newsweek they were investigating hundreds of complaints.

When there are more heads than beds in a crisis, it’s a gouger’s market. Unfortunately, this type of price gouging after natural disasters is all too common. Early in the pandemic, price ...

The State of California maintains a list of areas designated as disasters, where price gouging is currently illegal. In California, Penal Code 396 is the statute that makes price gouging illegal.