The federal government built the Pacific Coast’s first lighthouse on Alcatraz in 1854, and the Army constructed a fort there, where it imprisoned Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.

Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal ... Bay to Fort Mason Army dock. There a chartered bus transported them to an undisclosed airport where a U.S. Immigration Service airplane ...

So when they told us there was a transfer ... Whatever the reason for the current recruitment crisis, the army is running dangerously short on personnel. Last summer, the government first issued ...

More than 60 years after three men escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison, the U.S. Marshals Service is not giving up on capturing them. The U.S. Marshals on Wednesday released age-progressed ...

Two more dead gray whales have turned up in San Francisco Bay, just days after one was found floating offshore of Alcatraz Island.

Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the army during the Civil War to protect San Francisco from Confederate ...