The news caught some out-of-towners by surprise.

Dozens of men packed into cages, sometimes sharing one functioning toilet. Temperatures reaching the mid-80s. Bugs covering the beds. Detainees crying out to lawmakers for help, one saying he was a ...

I remember this green, and I hate it. I’m standing in a preserved cell on Alcatraz Island, staring at the green paint lining the cell’s lower walls. I’ve been on this tour twice before, once as a ...

Alcatraz was closed to visitors when the federal government shutdown began, but the National Park Service said it would reopen the next day. That didn’t happen. Alcatraz Island reopened to visitors on ...

More than a week after several state legislators were denied access to Alligator Alcatraz, federal and state lawmakers on Saturday were given a supervised tour of the controversial facility used to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the Bay Area to tour Alcatraz Thursday morning as part of the controversial plan to reopen the federal ...

Alcatraz, one of the most popular tourist spots in the Bay Area, was among the many things impacted by the government shutdown Thursday. Alcatraz City Cruises, which manages tours to the island, ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Thursday as President Trump pushes to house inmates at the notorious San Francisco Bay prison more than six decades after ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum toured Alcatraz Island on Thursday to advance President Trump’s proposal to reopen the decrepit former federal prison, saying it would ...

The White House and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are encouraging Republican states across the nation to follow Florida's lead and install their own versions of "Alligator Alcatraz" – a remote detention ...