Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. As all good Bay Area history nerds know, Alcatraz Prison ...

Experts have reacted to a viral video of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz Island in what is a surprising first for the San ...

He should have been trying to make his escape. A coyote doggie-paddled ashore at Alcatraz on Sunday, leaving stunned guests and workers wondering how the unlikely visitor pulled off the daring swim.

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 ...

Alcatraz Island isn't known for its wildlife, but earlier this month, guests captured video of a coyote swimming onto the ...

Each year, more than one million people make the trek to Alcatraz Island to visit the site of the prison that was home to some of America's most hardened ...

The breakout of three inmates from the famous Alcatraz prison in 1962 has been the subject of wild speculation for more than half a century. Now, a handwritten letter is again raising questions about ...

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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 ...