According to the National Park Service, Alcatraz draws roughly 1.6 million visitors each year and generates about $60 million in tourism revenue annually.

"Rising seas will also erode coastal cliffs, dunes, and beaches, which will affect shorefront structures and recreation."  ...

Aerial view of Alcatraz Prison, a National Parks site on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, taken on May 5, 2025. REUTERS The Issue: President Trump suggesting the reopening of ...

Many might see Trump’s idea as far-fetched, given Alcatraz’s aging infrastructure and the likely large logistical costs of ...

THERE ON THE HOME PAGE. HISTORIANS SAY PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO REOPEN AND EXPAND ALCATRAZ WOULD REQUIRE TEARING DOWN THE OLD BUILDINGS, AND THAT TAKES AWAY TOURISM DOLLARS. HERE’S KCRA 3’S ...

When Danielle Reed-Reese, the owner of Queen’s Louisiana Po-boy Cafe on the waterfront side of San Francisco’s Embarcadero, awoke to news that President Donald Trump had said he wanted to turn ...

I have just one thing to say about President Trump’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz as a prison for ... I’ve been there, and the beauty of the location is that back when cons tried to go over ...

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks would serve as a deterrence for even the worst criminals. Trump called for ...

Donald Trump has ordered the re-opening of Alcatraz, the notorious US island prison off the coast of San Francisco that was closed down over 60 years ago. In a post on Truth Social, the US ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison ... It was cheaper to build a new prison from scratch. Despite the location, many prisoners tried to get out: 36 ...

And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” — the notorious penitentiary on an island in San ...

President Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz prison for incarcerating ... because of its small size, isolated location and lack of fresh water.