Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Peter Passalacqua spins around on a pole on the dance floor at his sprawling slab consisting of RVs, trailers and junk he ...

Somewhere on the edge of reality lies Slab City, a free RV oasis just east of the Salton Sea in the Colorado Desert of southeastern California. It's a place to journey into self-proclaimed exile from ...

Photojournalist Jessica Lum rented an RV and moved to the California desert to document the residents of Slab City, a campsite for snowbirds and... People come to Slab City, a squatter campsite in the ...

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, Mo., arrived at this ...

The last free place is hot, dry, and hard. Slab City’s freedom is not free from the exacting demands of the desert, nor is it free from life’s necessities: off the grid but on the edges of poverty ...

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, Mo., arrived at this ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The dusty compound is cluttered with rusted school buses and wooden shacks. Cacti stud the grounds and Christmas lights drape dried tree stumps. When the wind blows over the nearby Salton Sea, wind ...

It takes awhile to get to the last free place in America. It's 140 miles east of San Diego where farmland turns to dusty towns, which turns to parched desert. An abandoned guard post covered in ...