President Trump may want to turn Alcatraz into a prison, but San Francisco kids have their own ideas — less jail time and a ...

For several decades, Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay has attracted the public to tour an aging, infamous prison whose inmate roster included Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. But ...

The prison, which has operated as a historic site for several decades, remains in a deteriorated state President Donald Trump's administration is taking action to reopen Alcatraz. After Attorney ...

About 5,500 people were ferried from Pier 33 to Alcatraz Island before dawn Thursday for the annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering and commemorates the 1969–71 occupation of ...

There are three prominent islands that jut out in San Francisco Bay just as you enter the Golden Gate. The one 1 ½ mile north ...

Once again, California is a hotspot of political unrest. This time, the source is one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1934, a group of federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a twenty-two-acre rock about one-and-one half miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The Alcatraz Federal ...

There was a time, not long ago, when Republicans and Democrats actually got along. They considered members of the other party adversaries, not enemies and, after sparring during the day over policy ...

Alcatraz Island is most well known for its prison, that housed notorious inmates such as Machine Gun Kelly and Al Capone. What may surprise you is that Alcatraz has a long and storied history, playing ...

Hundreds to thousands of animal species go extinct every year, according to the World Wildlife Fund, and things are projected to get even worse if climate change continues unabated. A new novel by U.S ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco is hosting some of the best tennis players in the world for the Laver Cup, happening at the Chase Center this weekend. The world’s No.1 ranked men’s tennis player ...