Visiting San Francisco for just a day? Or perhaps you reside in the city, and just need some activities to pass the time? In ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that he's directing federal agencies to reopen the prison at Alcatraz after rebuilding and expanding the prison that was shuttered over 60 years ago and ...

Its buildings dominate the craggy landscape of Alcatraz Island, which lies about 1.5 miles north of San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf. Alcatraz once housed dangerous criminals such as the ...

At the rocky edge of Alcatraz, a Brandt’s cormorant is committing a crime. A cormorant neighbor just returned from a patch of nearby grass, where it plucked a mouthful of greens and waddled back ...

From Al Capone to George "Machine Gun" Kelly, more than 1,500 men were incarcerated at Alcatraz during the nearly 30 years it was in operation in the San Francisco Bay. The infamous prison-turned ...

President Trump called on his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz so authorities could send the “dregs of society” to the notorious California prison more than six decades after it ...

President Trump expressed interest in reopening the infamous Alcatraz penitentiary Sunday after a South Florida TV station aired the 1979 Clint Eastwood film “Escape from Alcatraz.” ...

Trump's directive has revived debate over the prison that once held Al Capone. President Donald Trump's surprise announcement over the weekend that he wanted to reopen and expand the notorious ...

Its buildings dominate the craggy landscape of Alcatraz Island, which lies about 1.5 miles north of San Francisco's famed Fisherman's Wharf. Alcatraz once housed dangerous criminals such as the ...