It's difficult to think of Alcatraz and not hear Sean Connery's accented voice proclaiming, "Welcome to the Rock!," but there ...

PERCHED on a rocky island a mile out to sea from San Francisco looms the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. One of the ...

Surrounded by strong currents and freezing, shark-infested waters, the island of Alcatraz is a formidable ... Since its closure and rebirth as a museum, the prison has also become a filming ...

Rich photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans, Steve Mallon’s odes to locomotives, Joanna Grabiarz’s joyful etchings, and so much more.

The prison -- infamously inescapable due to the strong ocean currents and cold Pacific waters that surround it -- was known ...

Say what you will about the awful and screeching, French fry-stealing seagulls that swarm above San Francisco — they have one of the best views of any creature on earth. Pope Leo XIV celebrates ...

In the past few months, San Francisco residents have been noticing small changes in their city. They’ve seen more law enforcement patrolling their notoriously troubled neighborhoods, such as the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's (SFPUC) new Treasure Island Water Resource Recovery Facility, now under construction, has earned the ...

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary. Alcatraz Island opened to the public in ...