Chief among them: Alcatraz Island. All Alcatraz tours were sold out for the holiday weekend. According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and ...

At the rocky edge of Alcatraz, a Brandt’s cormorant is committing a crime. A cormorant neighbor just returned from a patch of nearby grass, where it plucked a mouthful of greens and waddled back ...

Aerial view of Alcatraz Prison, a National Parks site on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, taken on May 5, 2025. REUTERS The Issue: President Trump suggesting the reopening of ...

THERE ON THE HOME PAGE. HISTORIANS SAY PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO REOPEN AND EXPAND ALCATRAZ WOULD REQUIRE TEARING DOWN THE OLD BUILDINGS, AND THAT TAKES AWAY TOURISM DOLLARS. HERE’S KCRA 3’S ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too ...

President Donald Trump has called for the revival of Alcatraz Island as a federal prison facility. The former fortress in San Francisco Bay, which operated as a federal prison from 1934 to 1963 ...

President Trump has directed the reopening of Alcatraz, the infamous former prison, sparking curiosity about its history. Originally a military fort, it became a federal penitentiary in 1934 ...

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks would serve as a deterrence for even the worst criminals. Trump called for ...

ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif. — The exhibits on Alcatraz Island, the infamous federal prison that decades ago was shuttered and preserved as a national park site and tourist attraction, invite ...

President Trump expressed interest in reopening the infamous Alcatraz penitentiary Sunday after a South Florida TV station aired the 1979 Clint Eastwood film “Escape from Alcatraz.” ...

Alcatraz is in the bay and visible from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. It is best known for its years as a federal prison, from 1934-63, but its history is much longer.

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 ...