A lone coyote that swam more than a mile across San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz Island is being monitored by scientists and could be moved if its presence threatens birds on the infamous Californian ...

It is hailed as America's greatest prison break. In June 1962, three inmates at Alcatraz fooled guards with papier-mâché heads, carved tunnels with spoons, stitched together a raft from raincoats and ...

A coyote was spotted swimming to Alcatraz and now appears to be thriving. Ecologist Christopher Schell at the University of California Berkeley has been following this saga.

The film, Concrete, Steel and Paint, told the story of the Philadelphia Mural project in which inmates and victims of crime painted a mural on parachute cloth in the prison the inmates were housed, ...

The 1962 Alcatraz escape saw inmates engineer an elaborate breakout, vanish into San Francisco Bay, and leave behind a ...

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he wanted Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison even though it has been closed for more than 60 years. Its outsized place in the public ...

COLUMBIA - It was 68 years ago that the Bank of Columbia was robbed, setting off a chain of events that ended in an escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary four years later.

It has been hailed as a 'timeless thriller' and a 'must-see' by critics and audiences alike ...