The Anglins were transferred to Alcatraz following an escape attempt at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, which at the time was the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

Federal courts have found that cities and counties can act as sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants and do not have to turn them over to federal agents for deportation. Federal judges have ruled ...

Lanyard-wearing crowds filled up the sidewalks and green spaces of downtown San Francisco the last two weeks, thanks to two ...

President Trump announced plans to reopen the infamous Alcatraz maximum security prison. Why was it closed in the first place ...

After initially calling Trump’s Alcatraz order “distraction day in Washington,” Newsom said Monday that state officials ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to slash the federal budget includes unprecedented cuts to the nation’s largest rental aid program, a move Bay Area housing advocates and officials warn could push ...

SAN FRANCISCO ... the Trump administration last week over new strings attached to federal homelessness grants. San Francisco officials argued that nearly 2,000 people in the Bay Area city ...

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he is ordering the reopening of Alcatraz, a shuttered prison on an island in ...

Trump wants to end grants that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, “gender ideology,” abortion or “sanctuary city” policies.

One of the most notorious inmates is known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," popularized by a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster ...

President Donald Trump said he's directing federal agencies to reopen the federal prison at Alcatraz, which closed in 1963 ...

Kamala Harris returned to San Francisco on Wednesday, in what was her first major speech since she lost the presidential ...