Meagan Nye doesn’t always know when or if her workweek will end. She’s an engineer on the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Columbia. She is supposed to work two-week shifts at sea. But more and more ...

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 ...

The Tustumena stops in Kodiak in the channel between Near Island and town. (Brian Venua/KMXT) The Federal Transit Administration announced on Nov. 30 that rural ferries in Alaska will receive about ...

SEWARD — The M/V Tustumena is preparing for its 60th birthday party. This summer, the iconic Alaska state ferry will celebrate six decades since it went into service. In that time, the vessel has ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska's ferry system, serving dozens of coastal communities that lack outside road access, was shut down for a second straight day on Thursday by a boat workers strike ...