For 29 years, from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz served as America’s most notorious federal penitentiary. Built on 22 acres of rock ...

A packed Alcatraz City Cruises ferry slammed into Pier 31 on Sunday while docking in San Francisco, shattering several ...

All scheduled tours affected by the closure will be refunded to guests, according to officials.

A dogged coyote made a daring reverse escape in California by swimming through the choppy waters of San Francisco Bay to breach Alcatraz Island — once the site of a notorious federal prison that held ...

San Francisco could be losing an iconic tourist spot. Donald Trump said on social media in May that he'd ordered federal agencies to reopen Alcatraz, the former maximum-security prison that held ...

President Donald Trump wants to reopen San Francisco's infamous Alcatraz Island as a modern federal prison and is requesting $152 million in funding from Congress to begin the project, according to a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by swift, ...

Alcatraz Island has abruptly closed its doors to tourists just weeks after President Trump demanded over $150 million to reopen the infamous prison. Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary - which sits in the ...

At the time, biologists guessed the coyote swam from San Francisco, which is a little over 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from the fortress. But it turns out the male coyote actually made an even longer swim ...