Slab City is a unique off-the-grid community with no public utilities, attracting winter snowbirds and offbeat individuals. Law technically applies in Slab City, but government involvement is ...

Ten-year resident Rodney “Spyder” Wild at his California Ponderosa Airbnb in Slab City. “The people that come visit me — Iceland, Russia, Japan — stopped coming,” said Wild, 55.

In Slab City, an isolated California community in the Sonoran Desert, many either don't want the COVID-19 vaccine or remain hesitant to get it.

A former military base that was closed after World War II, Slab City is a place on the fringe both geographically and philosophically and attracts a variety of people, including jobless and ...

Slab City has always appealed to the hardiest of wanderers. Retirees and snowbirds have migrated to this public land in Imperial County for decades in search of a rent-free and funky lifestyle.

Slab City’s largest and most recognizable art installation, Salvation Mountain, has been closed during the pandemic. The installation, near Niland, Calif., was created over 30 years by artist ...

Slab City, an unincorporated, off-the-grid squatter community who like to live outside of mainstream society, consisting before the pandemic, of partially snowbirds, artists and freedom-seeking ...