Visitors will need to alter their Halloween plans.

The shutdown will last nearly a month.

Tours of Alcatraz Island resumed Friday morning after being abruptly closed down the day before due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. By midmorning on Oct. 3, long lines of visitors from the ...

Alcatraz Island, a popular tourist attraction in San Francisco Bay, will close to visitors for several weeks, officials said.

Alcatraz Island will be closed through Friday to allow maintenance crews to perform dock repairs. Authorities did not say what prompted the dock repairs, nor did they specify when on Friday the island ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The government shutdown has forced the closure of multiple tourist attractions across the Bay Area, except one. On Friday, Alcatraz resumed public tours and ferries to the rock, ...

Anyone wanting to visit San Francisco's Alcatraz Island for Halloween or in the upcoming months: there's some bad news, it'll ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Alcatraz Island, one of San Francisco's best-known tourist destinations, is closed this week while crews repair the island's dock, according to the National Park Service. The ...