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

Slab City has always appealed to the hardiest of wanderers. Retirees and snowbirds have migrated to this public land in Imperial County for decades in search of a rent-free and funky lifestyle.

Along with Mr. Malinowski, a few docents — most of whom are Slab City residents — also work at Salvation Mountain, greeting guests and telling them about the history of the piece.

That’s because Slab City has more than its share of people who think this patch of scrubland is impervious to disease. “We don’t wear masks. We share the same marijuana pipe.

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 ...

Slab City has neither however, so we picked the hot springs. I had no idea what to expect from the hot springs, but knew they were there after exchanging emails with the website.

Slab City, an isolated community in California's Sonoran Desert, has long been a landing place for those who want to live off the grid, operate outside the confines of modern society, flee cold ...

Get our newsletter! "Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place" is a new book that explores a one-square-mile patch of desert in Imperial County, California, that once served as a military base.

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 ...

The Slab City Organization was formed to ensure the Slabs are a healthy, happy place for those choosing to live there by addressing – primarily but not exclusively – the issue of illegal dumping.

Slab City has about 150 year-round residents, says the New York Times, but from October through April the population "swells to perhaps 2,000," many of whom reside in "sometimes majestic" RVs ...