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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 U.S. Coast Guard called off the search for F/V Canis Majoris which went missing north of Thorne Bay near Prince of Wales ...

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 ...

Passenger and vehicle traffic aboard the Alaska Marine Highway System moved slightly higher in 2024 from 2023, but still is less than half its peak from the early 1990s. The state ferries carried just ...

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 ...

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 ...