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 ...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Thursday blasted the Trump administration's effort to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison during an interview with "Today in the Bay" anchor Laura Garcia. Pelosi released a ...

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 ...