Alcatraz Island News

Tonight we bring you news headlines from the Americas and highlighting the conflict in Honduras.

Alcatraz Cruises, the National Park Service concessioner of ferry service to Alcatraz Island, has been awarded the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award in the category of Best Low Carbon Transport and Technology.

Native American Heritage Month is drawing to a close, but the important events are still continuing.

Alcatraz Island was a chilly, unwelcoming place once reserved for infamous criminals.

"Al Capone Shines My Shoes" is the new sequel to the Newbery Honor Book "Al Capone Does My Shirts," both written by Gennifer Choldenko.

Coit Tower will be turned into a huge outdoor movie screen to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the American Indian Movement's occupation of Alcatraz Island.

Google Street View has officially finished visually cataloging all 50 US states.

A visit to San Francisco is incomplete without visiting some of the most famous San Francisco tourist attractions.

Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Occupation of Alcatraz Coit Tower Video Projection and KPOO Radio Broadcast November 25th and 26th 2009 Alcatraz Remembrance, Ohlone Presence: Indigenous Renewal What : A digital projection & live radio broadcast commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island in ...

The folks at Merrell are constantly improving their footwear so they gave us another one to try - the low-cut Chameleon Arc XCR with Gore-Tex. This time we took them on a trip to California and tried them on various terrains.

On the morning of September 12 at San Francisco's Pier 39, Catina Stavroulakis looked across the water to her new view of Alcatraz Island.

The night tour of Alcatraz Island makes the hair on the back of your neck prickle long after the three-hour trip has ended.

San Francisco is a scenic city to include in movies. Amongst Alcatraz Island, the Transamerica Pyramid, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the houses that are close together, many movies have been filmed in the city by the bay.

For an elongated "wow" from the whole family, San Francisco is hard to beat. Steep streets suddenly drop off, leaving your kid's stomach somewhere in mid-air. Who needs roller coasters when you can experience sparkling sailboats, fluttering in the Bay past Alcatraz Island.

A new report released by the FCO today reveals that almost 7000 Brits were arrested whilst abroad last year, with one in five arrests being drug-related. Spain was the most popular place for Brits to run into trouble with the law, with 2290 arrested there, but when visitor numbers were taken into account, the most likely places to get nicked were ...

Stockton's Austin Hecht recently completed a 1.5-mile swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco's Aquatic Park.

Stockton's Austin Hecht recently completed a 1.5-mile swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco's Aquatic Park.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Which is the 'real' San Francisco? The city we saw from the sky, or the son who greeted us with a big smile and big hugs? We're here to see our son, of course, so the rest was real estate.

If an old-growth Coast Redwood falls in Muir Woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? According to the National Park Service, visitation to Muir Woods dropped nearly 15 percent in June as compared to a year ago , despite the recent implementation of "fee-free weekends" and free parking.

Posted on Aug 12, 2009 by Dave Rasdal . Dressed in a guard uniform, Iowa native and former U.S. Penitentiary Alcatraz guard Jim Albright speaks to a group of visitors outside the administration building on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco on Saturday.