President Donald Trump's fascination with reopening Alcatraz, a dilapidated former state prison off the coast of San ...

The Trump administration is taking steps toward reopening Alcatraz to house detained immigrants and criminals. The notorious ...

Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island to assess its potential reopening as a ...

Riley Gaines defended her decision to swim from Alcatraz to shore at 31 weeks pregnant, addressing backlash on her podcast ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Alcatraz was a federal penitentiary for nearly three decades. During that time, there were 36 escape attempts: 23 were caught, six were shot and killed, and two drowned.

Alcatraz is one of San Francisco's biggest sightseeing attractions, but on Thursday two members of the Trump administration ...

President Trump floated the idea to convert Alcatraz — now one of San Francisco’s most visited tourist attractions — back ...

From 1934 until its closure in 1963, Alcatraz operated as a maximum-security federal penitentiary designed to hold what some ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Alcatraz, the historic island prison off San Francisco, reopened Monday for a limited number of indoor tours, which had been on ice for more than a year because of the COVID-19 ...