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 ...

A draft of the 20-year plan for Alaska’s state ferry system is open for public comment. Officials with the Alaska Department of Transportation are asking residents to weigh in on the plan that will ...

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 from ...

Dec. 5—U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski sent a letter Tuesday to Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy urging him to include $23 million in his coming budget draft for the replacement of a state ferry. Dunleavy ...

The Columbia, a mainliner in the Alaska Marine Highway System, docked in Skagway in early March. The state of Alaska is moving forward with a controversial plan to build a brand-new ferry terminal ...

BELLINGHAM -- A second weekly ferry run between Bellingham and Alaska has been tentatively scheduled this fall by Alaska Marine Highway officials. The second run, now offered only during the summer, ...

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 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state ferry system plans to close the bars on the six ships that have them. The Alaska Marine Highway System estimates this will save the state more than $750,000 a year.

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 ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — About 330 travelers have been stranded in Bellingham and 225 in southeast Alaska because of a minor engine room fire in the largest vessel in the Alaska Marine Highway System fleet ...