All scheduled tours affected by the closure will be refunded to guests, according to officials.

Alcatraz Island, one of San Francisco's best-known tourist destinations, is closed this week while crews repair the island's dock, according to the National Park Service. The closure began Monday and ...

The news caught some out-of-towners by surprise.

Federal officials recently visited Alcatraz as part of the president's efforts to reopen the historic site as a prison. How ...

San Francisco could be losing an iconic tourist spot. Donald Trump said on social media in May that he'd ordered federal agencies to reopen Alcatraz, the former maximum-security prison that held ...

President Donald Trump wants to reopen San Francisco's infamous Alcatraz Island as a modern federal prison and is requesting $152 million in funding from Congress to begin the project, according to a ...