The Columbia, a mainliner in the Alaska Marine Highway System, docked in Skagway in early March. The state is again exploring ...

Southeast Alaska leaders want the Alaska Marine Highway System to be an economic lifeboat, but the badly damaged ferry system is twisting shorthanded through perilous waters strewn with icebergs ...

Problems with the Alaska Marine Highway System’s operations and aging ... the hour-long event advertised as an overview of the ferry system’s pending long-range plan for the next 20 years.

The schedule will be open for reservations and fares will be posted after the ferry system adopts the summer timetable. The ...

Alaska’s state ferry system continues to face stiff headwinds when it comes to staffing, state officials say. Alaska Marine Highway officials say they’re struggling to attract and retain ...

After months of living with uncertainty, a dozen Louisiana residents travel to America's last frontier to get a glimpse into what their futures may hold. They ooh and ah at breaching whales, a calving ...

Alaska’s ferry service will not offer the popular ... Roughly 24% of the positions in the Alaska Marine Highway System are vacant, and the rate is highest among the positions that require ...

Alaska’s state development agency is ending a two-decade partnership with the operator of the Ketchikan Shipyard, throwing ...

A proposed 20-year plan seeking to restore the ailing Alaska Marine Highway System to a more reliable and sustainable transportation hub calls for, above all, adequate funding for operations and ...

The state ferries carried just over 185,000 passengers and about 65,000 vehicles last year on its routes stretching from ...

The Alaska Marine Highway System released a new long-range plan for public review and comment on Friday. The plan outlines a ...

As if years of political interference and, for many elected officials, disinterest weren’t enough to sink the Alaska Marine ...