Slab City, which is located on 640 acres of public land, used to be a military complex and training facility, but it was abandoned after WWII and all that was left were some concrete slabs, which ...

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.

Slab City is a 600-acre chunk of California desert on an abandoned WWII artillery training range, home to long time residents, newcomers and transients. There is no running water, no sewers, and ...

Slab City takes its name from the concrete slabs it sits on -- all that's left from a World War II training camp. Now it is home base for more and more people who can't afford to live anywhere else.

Vincent D’Onofrio’s creepy plastic nose is pretty much all I remember from the movie The Salton Sea, even more so than Val Kilmer’s scene chewing. That nose keeps popping into my head as my ...

SALTON CITY, CALIF. — This lakeside hamlet is about as remote as you can get in Southern California and still have plumbing and pavement. Nestled on the western shore of the Salton Sea, the town ...

California's legendary Salton Sea may need an epitaph soon, thanks to a "farm to city" water deal that takes full effect in 2018. The controversial deal redirects most of the water that now ...