For long, Alcatraz was just a lonely island in the middle of San Francisco Bay that was once ... during the 29 years it served as a federal prison. Most attempts ended with the prisoners either ...

A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...

Alcatraz ferry workers strike as SF summer tourism season starts Alcatraz City Cruises workers are striking for better wages as San Francisco's summer tourism season is just getting started.

Misspelling the Bay Area prison is intentional. Alcotraz, a boozy portmanteau, has become a wildly popular East London bar inspired by San Francisco ... ended in 1933 and Alcatraz opened in ...

A convicted felon from San Francisco was arrested after escaping a high-security Central Valley prison almost eight ... University student ID card. A federal grand jury charged Pree with one ...