Bar Pilot trainee Brandon Johnson descends from a cargo ship in San Francisco Bay. Because shipping never stops, the San ...

San Francisco is known for so many different things to so many different people. For travelers, it is the home base of fascinating sites like the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. For ...

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

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 ...

The Alcatraz East Crime Museum has debuted a temporary exhibit focused on retail theft that will be on display through March.

The Golden City is by no means lacking in stellar views of the metropolis and its serene surroundings. But these five spots ...

What do you do when you find yourself with only one day in San Francisco? As a city so advanced and so pioneering, you would be hard pressed to fit all the things that make San Fran tick into just 24 ...

When three men vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1962, it was long assumed the trio had drowned trying to escape ...

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 ...

A stately home in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco with unparalleled views of the Bay, Golden Gate Bridge ...

Sprawled along the Pacific coastline near San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area is full of wildflowers, beaches ...

Amid upheaval across the U.S. in 2025, Associated Press photographers captured images of heartache and hope, celebration and despair and flickering moments of wonder.