Slab City, California, situated in the desert near the Salton Sea, is renowned for its unique status as a community that ...

SLAB CITY, Calif. – Outside Rodney Spyder Wild’s desert camp, there’s a new addition to fit the times: a small sign that reminds visitors to wear a mask. Above the sign, a plastic skeleton rides a ...

Artist Peter Passalacqua spins around on a pole on the dance floor at his sprawling slab consisting of RVs, trailers and junk he collects to turn into artwork. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) ...

In this patch of desert known to many as the country’s “last free place,” people live uninhibited by the rules and constraints of mainstream society. Driven out of cities by poverty or looking to live ...

The fugitive accused of killing a Charlotte mom and her two children was camping in a notorious off-the-grid desert community when captured near the Mexico border, according to an incident report.

A former Marine Corps base is now home to the self-described “last free place in America.” Built for artillery training exercises before the Second World War, the 630-acre military installation is ...

Reuters photographer Eric Thayer recently spent some time with the fringe community living off-the-grid in Slab City. The former military base located in southern California was closed after World War ...