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 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 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 ...

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.

Federal funding makes a new Alaska state ferry possible — but not guaranteed While the Alaska Marine Highway System waits for a new vessel, an iconic ferry has become “a floating museum piece.” ...

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

A 30 percent budget cut imposed on the ferry system last year and unforeseenmaintenance problems meant the Matanuska was the only mainline ferry operating on the Alaska Marine Highway System.

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 ...

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 ...