After 25 years of warnings, fines and broken promises, Humboldt County supervisors finally voted last week to crack down on the infamous Yee Haw commune. Their unanimous decision set in motion plans ...

Although President Ronald Reagan once called California's Orange County the place where "good Republicans go to die," the ...

The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...

Frustrated with the Vietnam War, The Man, and the general state of the nation, hippies set out to do everything differently. They founded rural communes, dabbled in psychedelics and cultivated a ...

BRATTLEBORO — "Far Out: Life On & After the Commune," an 85-minute documentary that tells the story of two local communal farms, will run at the Latchis from Sept. 6 to Sept. 12, with a special ...

A California commune filled with 'dirty hippies' is closing down after losing a 25-year battle with its local government. The so-called ‘Yee Haw’ commune is a 12-acre makeshift settlement in Trinidad, ...

In 1968, 18 children and 22 adults lived together as the first Bay Area hippie commune. Living on 760 acres, the historic site of Olompali state park in northern California was once the home of music ...

Nov. 29, 2012 -- intro:If you thought communes had gone the way of the tie dye shirt, think again. New, non-hippy ones are springing up. The oldest, The Farm—still hippyish and still going strong--is ...