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 ...

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: Dispatches from the Last Free Place" is a new book that explores a one-square-mile patch of desert in Imperial County, California, that once served as a military base.

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 ...

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.