All eyes will be at the Super Bowl and Levi’s Stadium on Sunday but before the game, all eyes will be on Alcatraz where the ...

In August 1934, the first group of inmates arrived at Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison perched on a small island in San Francisco Bay. The Big House on the Bay was the ultimate destination for ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Super Bowl pregame show will be headed to Alcatraz Island. NBC announced Monday that the network will broadcast part of its pregame show before Sunday's game between the New ...

The penitentiary officially closed on March 21, 1963, after being in operation for nearly three decades.

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

NBC announced on Feb. 2 that portions of the Super Bowl 60 pregame show will be live from Alcatraz. Here's what to know.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum arrived Thursday morning at Alcatraz, the San Francisco tourist attraction that President Donald Trump has vowed to reopen as a prison in ...

A lone coyote that swam more than a mile across San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz Island is being monitored by scientists and ...

A coyote was spotted swimming to Alcatraz and now appears to be thriving. Ecologist Christopher Schell at the University of California Berkeley has been following this saga.

The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons NBC Universal, Inc. Alcatraz ...