The Alcatraz escape remains a mystery more than six decades later. In 1962, three inmates managed to break out of the ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

Alcatraz became famous as a prison. It stayed famous as a myth. And now, more than 60 years after the last inmate left, that ...

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 ...

US President Donald Trump is seeking $152m (£115m) to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as part of his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year. Located near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the ...

(FOX40.COM) — President Donald Trump is standing by his plan to reopen Alcatraz, calling for millions in funding to begin rebuilding the infamous California prison. The Trump administration released ...

President Donald Trump first pushed the idea last year, directing the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to reopen and expand Alcatraz to detain what he called ...

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

Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and for San Francisco, the season arrives with mixed signals about the state of its tourism industry. While the Bay Area has yet to recover ...