Slab City, CA. Author. Ruth Newell. Publish Date. May 24, 2012. In the "last free place on Earth," Slab City. The Range is just over yonder. Trying to change the ...

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.

Kelsey Pittman, 33, has been found alive in Colorado nine months after she was reported missing, authorities said.

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’s largest and most recognizable art installation, Salvation Mountain, has been closed during the pandemic. The installation, near Niland, Calif., was created over 30 years by artist ...

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.

You have to go to Slab City to meet a man named Quokka. Slab City is a squatter’s settlement near the Salton Sea out in the Imperial Valley desert, about 150 miles east of San Diego. The “sea ...

Artist Peter Passalacqua, 51, spins around on a pole on the dance floor at his sprawling slab (named menopause manor by the former owner) in Slab City, CA on April 21, 2021, consisting of RVs ...

For some, Slab City has long been a way of life. Others are refugees from the recession. “A lot of us just have nowhere else to go,” said Tracy Moss, 73, who came to Slab City with her husband ...