The last hour of the 190-mile drive inland from L.A. to Slab City is a sensory-deprivation dash through frowning, scrubby nothingness where humans go only to escape or to hide, or because they've ...

A filmmaker has documented his two-week stay in Slab City, a lawless, off-grid community populated by homeless and unemployed squatters and ex-convicts, and uncovered what truly happens within the ...

You have to go to Slab City to meet a man named Quokka. Slab City is a squatter’s settlement near the Salton Sea out in the Imperial Valley desert, about 150 miles east of San Diego. The “sea” is a ...

The last free place is hot, dry, and hard. Slab City’s freedom is not free from the exacting demands of the desert, nor is it free from life’s necessities: off the grid but on the edges of poverty ...

Experts say we're on the brink of a recession, and even the better-off among us are looking to tighten their belts as the cost of living crisis begins to bite. But not everyone is beholden to rising ...

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 ...

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) ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Once a Second World War military training base, the site was decommissioned and torn down in the 1950s, leaving only concrete ground ...