According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million in tourism revenue annually.

As it goes for so many real estate developers here, President Donald Trump’s dreams of building in California could get derailed by regulations.

President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison.

Alcatraz Island opened to the public ... stayed there — and the ones who tried to escape. The tour was standard at the revered San Francisco attraction, save for one topic that simply could ...

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again. It comes more than 60 years after the California island fortress was shut down as too costly.

ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ. THERE’S JUST A LOT OF ... there is no running water," said John Martini, a San Francisco historian, author and tour guide. "There is no sanitation. There is no heat in ...

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

Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco, said reopening Alcatraz as a prison is "absurd ... it reopened as part of a National Park Service unit, and tours can be scheduled to visit the ...

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons over the last few years, including widespread criminal activity by employees, ...

Alcatraz history expert and former park ranger John Marti told The San Francisco Chronicle that ... In fact, you should plan on booking your tickets in advance, as they tend to sell out.