SAN FRANCISCO -- Rising sea levels are threatening iconic Alcatraz Island and now a groundbreaking ... created an incredibly detailed 3D map of the entire island to chart its erosion.

Daring departure on this day in 1962 still has mysterious conclusion. The island made an easy transition to tourist stop.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A team of researchers who built a 3D map of Alcatraz Island to track erosion and the effects of climate change spent some spooky nights sleeping in the prison cells that housed ...

The actual span of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area encompasses multiple places in San Mateo (south of San Francisco), San Francisco and Marin counties (Alcatraz and Muir Woods included ...

Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

Ranked as the fifth most visited tourist spot in San Francisco behind Pier 39, the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park and ...

ALCATRAZ IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR TOURISM IN SAN FRANCISCO. I’M RYAN CURRY. SO IT HAS NO UTILITIES. AND HISTORIANS ALSO SAY IT WOULD To reopen the Alcatraz Federal Prison, San Francisco ...

From Al Capone to George "Machine Gun" Kelly, more than 1,500 men were incarcerated at Alcatraz during the nearly 30 years it was in operation in the San Francisco Bay. The infamous prison-turned ...

Its outsized place in the public's imagination aside, the island on which the prison was built is only 22 acres in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz was named "La Isla de los ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three Alcatraz inmates, Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin, set out in a raft made of raincoats into the treacherous waters of San Francisco Bay. They were ...

along with tracking the effects of climate change on San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz has a significant history: it was a Civil War fort, a military prison, as well as the notorious federal ...