Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz, the historic island prison off San Francisco, opened up Monday for a limited number of indoor tours, which had been off-limits for more than a year due to the pandemic.

Alcatraz Island will reopen next week for the first time since last year, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and National Park Service announced Tuesday.

The National Park Service said Thursday that it will resume recreational access to Alcatraz Island following new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local public health officials.

Happy Thanksgiving to you in the land your forefathers stole. That’s the in-your-feast message Native Americans are preparing to send as they convene their 50th annual National Day of Mourning in the seaside town where the Pilgrims settled.

On a chilly November night 50 years ago, a 7-year-old Peter Bratt, his four siblings and their single mother left their San Francisco home for the pier. From there, they joined a group of indigenous activists on a small boat, bobbing in fog and rolling over what felt like tidal waves.

Officials on Thursday held a “groundmaking” ceremony for a park that will eventually connect the Presidio of San Francisco with Crissy Field.

The Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island 50 years ago will be commemorated on Monday at a canoe journey around the famous island.

Whale watchers said Monday a whale was struck and killed Sunday near Alcatraz Island.

Hundreds of athletes are expected to “Escape from the Rock” on Saturday during the annual duathlon and swim event at San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island. Now in its 39th year, the “Escape the Rock” event begins on the island, where participants will swim 1.5 miles to the shore at Aquatic Park.

San Franciscans should put aside their political differences and support finding homes for more than 1,000 homeless people, according to a public engagement campaign beginning Thursday.

Fishermen casting lines into the San Francisco Bay Saturday morning reeled in quite the surprise: a great white shark.

The partial government shutdown has forced closures and reductions in staffing and services at some of the iconic national parks in California. From the rugged Santa Monica Mountains to the tall trees of Redwood National Park, visitors are likely to notice the changes.

More than 100 swimmers jumped from Alcatraz Island into San Francisco Bay Tuesday morning for the annual New Year’s Day Alcatraz swim.

Visitors to parks in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area this weekend are urged to plan ahead and expect delays and may want to consider visiting at another time, parks officials said.

Attractions in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area will reopen Wednesday because the air quality in the Bay Area is forecasted to improve, National Park Service officials said Tuesday.

Convicted bank robbers Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin had been plotting their escape for months. All had previously attempted to break out of other prisons — and Morris had succeeded, before being recaptured during a burglary. At a press conference on Alcatraz Island, FBI agents unveiled exact replicas of the phony heads the men left in their...

A 33-foot inflatable “Trump Chicken” will make another appearance in the Bay Area, this time sailing around the San Francisco shore dressed in prison garb on Sunday.

With a government shutdown looming, federal officials have few details on how their agencies might be affected, leaving Bay Area residents with little to go on should the shutdown occur.