It is a new day for an old and historic courthouse. After an extensive renovation, the Old Courthouse, site of the landmark legal cases of Dred Scott, his wife Harriett and other enslaved people, ...

The conclave of cardinals in Rome selected a new Roman Catholic pontiff on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV, American-born Cardinal Ro ...

President Trump directs reopening of Alcatraz to house most dangerous criminals. The place once known as 'The Rock' could ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom said nothing about President Trump's order to reopen and rebuild the notorious Alcatraz ...

The jail cell was cold, damp and echoey. But sleeping in the old prison buildings of Alcatraz Island was the first time Robert Free Galvan had a sense of true liberty. In 1969, Galvan and other ...

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months. More than 4,000 staff vacancies. A $3 billion repair backlog. And now, a ...

The President said he wants to restore the legendary island prison, which was closed decades ago and converted into a tourist ...

Alcatraz, a notorious former prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, once housed some famous gangsters like Al Capone and ...

President Donald Trump is ordering the reopening of the infamous Alcatraz prison to serve as a "symbol of law and order." ...

Experts say the federal government would have to overcome enormous hurdles to make the facility operational again.

President Donald Trump proposes rebuilding and reopening Alcatraz prison, a former maximum-security facility off the coast of San Francisco.