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 ...
A major victory in efforts to upgrade Alaska Marine Highway System vessels and infrastructure was secured this week as the federal government approved the state’s first-ever use of passenger fares as ...
The new marine highway — pictured in blue — includes waterways in the Bering Sea, Bristol Bay, Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta and the Arctic Ocean. (From MARAD) The Center for Biological Diversity ...
The Alaska Marine Highway System’s plan for the next 20 years includes building six new hybrid ferries, increasing port calls and recruiting Alaskans for jobs. New details of the plan were discussed ...
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 ...
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 ...