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 ...

Discover life in Slab City through the eyes of a former financial analyst who now thrives on a $20-a-day budget. Freedom and unique challenges in an off-grid community.

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 ...

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 ...

Living in Slab City under normal circumstances requires self-sufficiency and adaptability. The small squatter community in Southern California’s Sonoran Desert has no running water, no electricity and ...

Living in Slab City under normal circumstances requires self-sufficiency and adaptability. The small squatter community in Southern California's Sonoran Desert has no running water, no electricity and ...

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on Slab City. Read Part 1 here. SLAB CITY, Calif. — A punishing sun was finally giving way to night, and that meant show time at the Range. In the desert of ...

Since the housing bubble burst, nearly 4 million American homes have been lost to foreclosure. Now 1.6 million children will be homeless at some time during the year -- 38 percent more than at the ...

Reporting from Slab City, Calif. — Penny Puckett came to Slab City and fell in love. After four years of “bumming around and hopping freight trains,” the 25-year-old from Kansas City arrived at this ...