One of Alcatraz's most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1939, for medical reasons. Eight years later, former ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump proposed restoring Alcatraz to a "state-of-the-art secure prison facility" in his 2027 budget released Friday. Trump wants to allocate $152 million to cover the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Alcatraz is undergoing a big change. The former prison which was home to Machine Gun Kelly and Al Capone is now hosting what many say is the most anticipated contemporary art ...

Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. As all good Bay Area history nerds know, Alcatraz Prison ...

A lone coyote stunned biologists and others by swimming to Alcatraz Island earlier this year. Initially, biologists thought ...