Swimmers ring in New Year with annual plunge from Alcatraz to SF Swimmers from across the Bay Area rang in 2025 with the annual New Year's Day swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco. Alcatraz ferry ...

San Fran is the perfect city for a family vacation. It has tons of parks and green spaces for the little ones to run around ...

N estled on a peninsula between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco is a northern California port city ...

Continuing the rout of the EPA's authority undertaken by the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court Tuesday overturned rules ...

Alcatraz receives 1.5 million visitors a year from all over the world, and most of them are not expecting to see colorful gardens flourishing on an island known for the maximum security prison.

Cable cars, Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf, and the “Painted Ladies” Victorian homes are classic San Francisco attractions. Visitors enjoy boat trips to Alcatraz Island, hikes through ...

Located in San Francisco's North Bay, not far from Alcatraz Island, the buildings were nearly forgotten and their history almost lost, until one day in 1970, when Alexander Weiss, a California ...