Alcatraz Island will be closed this week while crews repair the island's dock, temporarily cutting off access to one of San Francisco's best-known tourist destinations, according to the National Park ...

Rising from San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island feels both stark and cinematic. Once home to America’s most notorious federal prison, “The Rock” is now a windswept national park full of stories of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 12, 1962, reporting the escape of three prisoners from Alcatraz prison in California on ...

One person died, three people were missing and 16 were rescued from the waters off San Francisco after a pontoon boat sank Tuesday afternoon while carrying mostly family members as part of a memorial ...

Alcatraz became famous as a prison. It stayed famous as a myth. And now, more than 60 years after the last inmate left, that myth is powerful enough that President Donald Trump wants to turn it back ...

A terrifying boat disaster unfolded in San Francisco Bay Tuesday afternoon ... leaving one person dead, two others missing and sparking a massive rescue operation near Alcatraz Island. Officials say a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. President Trump wants to turn the site back into a prison. (Loren Elliott / Getty ...