For example, Pelican, Alaska – population under 100 – gets ferry service to Juneau once a month, year round. It's easy to imagine a private company deciding that stop just isn't worth the money.

The state of Alaska has hired a new leader for the Alaska Marine Highway System. Craig Tornga has been selected as the ferry system’s new marine director. In that role, he’ll oversee hundreds ...

Cutting the ferry system budget from $140 million to $44 million, as Dunleavy has proposed, would leave it without operational funds after Oct. 1.

The catch is that the money is only available for rural ferry routes over 50 miles in length, of which Alaska has many and other states very few, staffers to Alaska’s congressional delegation noted.

We know where the Alaska Marine Highway System has been, but the crucial issue is where it is going. The AMHS came on line in the 1960s with three mainline vessels—the Malaspina, Taku and the ...

The Alaska Marine Highway System has been awarded $177.4 million to go towards operational costs, bringing Wi-Fi to passengers and replacing the oldest ferry in the fleet.

The Alaska Marine Highway System provides transportation along thousands of miles of coastline, directly serving more than 30 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — The head of the Alaska state ferry system has resigned, but says his departure has nothing to do with a decision to cut service to Bellingham. Dennis Hardy, the Transportation ...

Only five of Alaska's 33 ferry terminals are connected to a road system. The marine highway also connects the state to Bellingham, Washington, and Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

In most of the Inside Passage, there are no roads connecting the communities, so Alaskans depend heavily on ferries: the Alaska Marine Highway System.

Southeast Alaska is known as the Panhandle: It's a long, narrow strip of mainland coastline, plus 1,000 islands and the braided waterways that surround them. In most places, there are no roads ...