There are three prominent islands that jut out in San Francisco Bay just as you enter the Golden Gate. The one 1 ½ mile north ...

President Trump may want to turn Alcatraz into a prison, but San Francisco kids have their own ideas — less jail time and a ...

For several decades, Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay has attracted the public to tour an aging, infamous prison whose inmate roster included Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. But ...

About 5,500 people were ferried from Pier 33 to Alcatraz Island before dawn Thursday for the annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering and commemorates the 1969–71 occupation of ...

Once again, California is a hotspot of political unrest. This time, the source is one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Gavin Newsom has called the Trump administration’s bluff, joking that the notorious Alcatraz prison in northern California will reopen the same day that the so-called “Epstein files” are released. A ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1934, a group of federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a twenty-two-acre rock about one-and-one half miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The Alcatraz Federal ...

Hundreds to thousands of animal species go extinct every year, according to the World Wildlife Fund, and things are projected to get even worse if climate change continues unabated. A new novel by U.S ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco is hosting some of the best tennis players in the world for the Laver Cup, happening at the Chase Center this weekend. The world’s No.1 ranked men’s tennis player ...

There was a time, not long ago, when Republicans and Democrats actually got along. They considered members of the other party adversaries, not enemies and, after sparring during the day over policy ...