For decades, Alcatraz guards used one terrifying warning to keep prisoners from attempting the impossible escape: survive the ...

Prisoners on Alcatraz once risked the perilous waters in San Francisco Bay to escape the island's high-security prison. Now, a wily coyote has been filmed doing the opposite: swimming to Alcatraz ...

Tourists expecting prison lore at Alcatraz instead got a wildlife mystery: a lone coyote churning through San Francisco Bay toward the island once billed as "escape-proof." Alcatraz City Cruises ...

Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay combines stark concrete cellblocks, a historic lighthouse and steep rocky slopes, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by ...

President Donald Trump wants to reopen San Francisco's infamous Alcatraz Island as a modern federal prison and is requesting $152 million in funding from Congress to begin the project, according to a ...

A coyote swam across San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz, disappeared without a trace, and left behind DNA evidence that revealed ...

Donald Trump said he wants to turn Alcatraz Island back into a prison. The island off San Francisco housed famous criminals, including Al Capone, in the mid-20th century. Now a National Historic ...

Alcatraz hosts over a million visitors annually. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images NBC Sports announced Monday that it would be using Alcatraz Island, the site of a former prison that is now a tourist ...