The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has announced its plan to conduct a feasibility study to ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Pilot positions in Washington state’s ferry system pay 25% more than Alaska does, Tornga said. “We have to be reloading all the time in our deck officers,” he said. Tornga said the current ...

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

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 ...

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