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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said only one person was believed to be aboard the Canis Majoris when it was last heard from Feb. 20.

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 ...

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 ...

The Alaska Marine Highway System canceled plans to replace controllable-pitch propellers aboard the state ferry Columbia next ...

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

There is much work to do, and the combined DOT&PF and Alaska Marine Highway System teams are focused and actively improving the ferry system. It’s time to share the progress we’ve made and the path ...