Alcatraz the penitentiary shut down in 1963, but Alcatraz the idea has lived on, a permanent part of the American mythology.

Alcatraz is in San Francisco Bay off the coast of San Francisco and visible from the Golden Gate Bridge. It is best known for ...

Can it be a coincidence that South Florida’s most powerful social media provocateur called for the resurrection of a decrepit ...

Hernandez-Reyes reportedly told investigators that he operated a “taxi service” in Baltimore. Sources familiar with the ...

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

It wouldn't change much and it would cost too much — but the point would be to create a spectacle of degradation.

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

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a ...

Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before.

Trump Jr. floated the idea of turning Alcatraz back into a prison, but it seemed he was making one of his attempted jokes on ...