There are no beds, no chairs, no blankets — nothing. While Alcatraz held more than 200 killers, robbers and other excessively ...

Eric Zorn, Publisher of The Picayune Sentinel, joins John Williams to talk about the Illinois General Assembly not taking up ...

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South Dakota’s proposal to implement work requirements for Medicaid expansion could be “an exercise in futility” now that the ...

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

President Trump wants to reopen the notorious maximum security prison known as Alcatraz. But why? This hour, the past, ...

Alcatraz federal prison closed its doors and moved the remaining inmates to more modern facilities. Today, Alcatraz is one of San Francisco’s top tourist attractions. But now President Trump wants to ...

Escape from Alcatraz,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” are among the most memorable films set on Bay Area islands.

At the rocky edge of Alcatraz, a Brandt’s cormorant is committing ... People were seeing a lot of dead birds, seals, sea lions washing up on beaches, just because the waters were so warm that ...

Rapper Tory Lanez was attacked on Monday by another inmate at a prison in Tehachapi, California, and transported to an outside medical facility for treatment, according to the California Department of ...

Kennedy chose to close it in the first place: It was too costly to maintain and operate. Alcatraz Island ... we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away ...

If the whole point of Alcatraz back then was to be seen from across the water in San Francisco, why not let people get even more up close and personal now? So as we’re walking along here ...