Florida emergency officials say the fire does not threaten the state-run immigration detention facility called “Alligator ...

Clint Eastwood’s prison break film that’s based on a true story, Escape From Alcatraz, will soon come to a free streamer.

Alcatraz has joined the Active Shooter Prevention Project (ASPP), a U.S.-based initiative that develops strategies to reduce risks in schools.

Prolonged detention has become more common in President Donald Trump's second term, at least partly because a new policy ...

In 1897, San Francisco unveiled a grand new City Hall meant to rival the architecture of Paris, but it was built on unstable ground that once served as a cemetery. The ambitious project took 27 years ...

Attorneys say detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” still struggle to reach their lawyers, despite state claims that access problems are fixed. On Thursday, two lawyers filed ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Super Bowl pregame show will be headed to Alcatraz Island. NBC announced Monday that the network will broadcast part of its pregame show before Sunday’s game between the New ...

The coyote struggled onto the rocky shore this month. It is the first documented coyote on Alcatraz since the island was transferred to the National Park Service in 1972. By Hannah Ziegler Coyotes are ...

Jan. 21 (UPI) --A coyote caught on camera swimming to San Francisco's Alcatraz Island is believed to be the first of its species to visit the former prison, which is now a tourist attraction. Aidan ...

He should have been trying to make his escape. A coyote doggie-paddled ashore at Alcatraz on Sunday, leaving stunned guests and workers wondering how the unlikely visitor pulled off the daring swim.

“I didn’t believe them to start with,” Moore, who has been working on the island for the past two and a half years, told SFGATE over the phone. But the guest insisted they had the video to prove it.

A detainee who filed a lawsuit against the Florida Everglades immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz has requested dismissal of the case agreeing to be removed from the United States ...