Tours of Alcatraz Island resumed Friday morning after being abruptly closed down the day before due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. By midmorning on Oct. 3, long lines of visitors from the ...

Alcatraz Island reopened to visitors on Friday after more than two days of closures during the federal government shutdown, but some tourists and the businesses that rely on them continued to be ...

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, ...

Two officials from the Trump administration visited Alcatraz on Thursday and reportedly were set to formally launch an effort to turn National Park back into a federal prison. Attorney General Pam ...

Advocates of the Everglades went before a federal judge on Wednesday with the hopes they could halt the operation of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.” On June 27, the organization Friends of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- An Alcatraz ferry Captain and his crew are being hailed heroes after rescuing 10 people from a small vessel Thursday night. A passenger on Alcatraz Clipper took cellphone video ...

Alcatraz was shuttered in 1963 due to disrepair and high maintenance costs. Now Trump wants to rebuild and expand the isolated facility Chip Somodevilla/Getty; Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco ...

A federal judge in Miami could decide as early as next week whether to temporarily halt operations at the controversial migrant detention site known as "Alligator Alcatraz," as legal and political ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tuesday, President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and other officials toured Alligator Alcatraz, a new immigration detention facility in the Everglades. Media crews also got a ...