Plan Ahead: Depending on what time of year you visit ... is a must when visiting San Francisco, both visitors and travel experts tend to argue the same for Alcatraz. This is because Alcatraz ...

Situated on a tiny island off San Francisco, Alcatraz prison for years held high-profile criminals -- most famously mob boss ...

President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place ...

“The birds can go in and out. And they chose to come there.” ...

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

What most people know about Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, centers on a daring 1962 escape ...

People are continuing to react after President Donald Trump said Sunday he is directing his administration to reopen and ...

Today, "the Rock" is one of San Francisco's biggest attractions. Could Alcatraz, now a museum twice as long as it was a prison, become a fully functioning jail again under US President Donald Trump?

A trip to Alcatraz is among the top three “must-see” things for visitors to San Francisco. It’s a huge driver of tourism and has kitschy jail-themed souvenirs that include everything from ...

Alcatraz the penitentiary shut down in 1963, but Alcatraz the idea has lived on, a permanent part of the American mythology.

Reese, the owner of Queen’s Louisiana Po-boy Cafe on the waterfront side of San Francisco’s Embarcadero, awoke to news that President Donald Trump had said he wanted to turn Alcatraz Island back into ...

A National Park Service staff walks down the stairs as a colony of Brandt’s cormorants hang out on the structure’s roof recreation yard at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday ...