Deep within the Sonoran Desert near the Salton Sea and hours away from the bustling metropolitan areas of Southern California, awaits a notorious community known as Slab City. It's a place full of ...

Residents live rent-free but remain squatters on land owned by the California State Teachers Retirement System. This creates uncertainty about how long the community can continue existing. Supporters ...

Salvation Mountain and Slab City — two legendary California monuments that have attracted a sprawling off-grid community and drawn countless rebels, artists and outcasts to the desert — may ...

But over the last 70 years Slab City has attracted artists, retirees and a wide range of outcasts who were looking for some freedom in the California desert. The “city” is made up primarily of ...

Slab City, a former military base turned alternative community in Southern California, has served as a safe space to thousands of transients, squatters, migrants and retirees since the 1940s.

California has more than 12,000 confirmed cases. Imperial County, where Slab City is located, has only tested 417 residents, but has already confirmed 55 cases, three weeks after its first ...

Slab City — Leonard Knight ... said he’s confident that they will be able to secure a lease with the California State Lands Commission. “We’re going to be taking some aggressive steps ...

By Emma Grillo Photographs by Kitra Cahana Reporting from Slab City, Calif. In the summer, the desert surrounding the Salton Sea in California seems to glow from the glare of the unrelenting sun.