Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cars drive aboard the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Hubbard on June 25, 2023, in Haines. (Photo by James Brooks) Alaska’s ...

Meagan Nye doesn’t always know when or if her workweek will end. She’s an engineer on the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Columbia. She is supposed to work two-week shifts at sea. But more and more ...

The 50-year-old M/V Columbia tied up in Ketchikan on June 21, 2023. (Photo by Mikko Wilson/KTOO) This winter’s state ferry schedule is again impacted by an old fleet needing maintenance. One ferry ...

The Alaska transportation department is relying on nearly $78 million in federal funding from the program for state ferries.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crewman aboard the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Malaspina dons a life jacket during a rescue boat drill Monday, Nov. 24, ...

The public advisory board for the Alaska Marine Highway System has recommended that the state call an end to the Matanuska’s 53-year career in the fleet. The final decision whether to sell the ...

PALMER, Alaska (AP) – An unwanted, $80 million ice-breaking ferry owned by an Alaska borough has only one bid to buy it, and it’s for $751,000. The bid was the only entered by Friday’s deadline set up ...

The Alaska Marine Highway System provides transportation along thousands of miles of coastline, directly serving more than 30 communities from Bellingham, Washington, to Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian ...

Ferries that operate as the Alaska Marine Highway System are as essential to coastal communities as roads are to the cities and villages along the road system. If the Alaska Highway or the Glenn ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A federal mediator on Monday suspended contract talks aimed at settling a strike that has shut down Alaska’s state ferry system at the peak of the tourist season, with ...

Alaska’s state ferry system is at risk of a partial or total shutdown this summer due to the failure of the federal government to issue a key annual grant. “Currently right now, we have a shortfall in ...