KETCHIKAN — Minutes after the M/V Kennicott pulled away from its terminal in the Tongass Narrows on a late February journey up the Inside Passage, emergency lights flickered on, barely visible under a ...

JUNEAU — An Alaska-built ferry sailed its maiden voyage with passengers Tuesday, 17 years after it was first envisioned. The 280-foot Hubbard took more than four years to come into service after ...

Looking at the ferry Columbia from the shore in Wrangell at about 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, nothing seemed amiss. That is, except that the 418-foot ferry wasn’t supposed to be in Wrangell at all. The ...

The Federal Highway Administration this week approved a key component of the state’s plan for building new ferries and repairing existing Alaska Marine Highway System infrastructure. A federal ...

Crew shortages continue to plague the Alaska Marine Highway, the ferry system’s director told a gathering of Southeast officials last week. “Our biggest shortage is in the engineering department,” ...

This summer, the iconic Alaska state ferry will celebrate six decades since it went into service. In that time, the vessel has become a familiar and important part of life in communities between Homer ...