As a young woman, Kate Riley's search for meaning led her to a Christian commune. She lived there for a year and embraced collective life – everyone dressed the same and no one owned any private ...

A Washington man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his grandparents so he could start a commune on their waterfront property — only to later burn down their house in an attempt to ...

San Francisco and its surrounds have a long history of intentional communities, from the Haight-Ashbury's Kerista, the free-love commune that became Northern California's largest Apple computer dealer ...