Unlike mega cruise ships on the same route, it's cheaper, no frills, and serves mostly locals. I paid $282 for a private cabin on the 19-hour ride from Juneau to Ketchikan. Here's how it went. On a ...

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 ...

The overall project proposes building a new Alaska Marine Highway System ferry terminal on Berners Bay, about 30 miles up the ...

Ted Stevens' boondoggle costing Alaska town $80K a month. March 12, 2013 -- Alaska -- once famous for its "bridge to nowhere" -- now has a $78 million ferry to that same destination. Upkeep for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The state ferry M/V Tustumena is out of service with some crew and passengers in isolation after a crew member tested positive for COVID-19 early Saturday evening in Dutch Harbor. The discovery of the ...

Alaska appears to be in prime position to capture well more than $1 billion in federal funding for ferries that many stakeholders hope is the catalyst for long-sought change in the Alaska Marine ...

The state’s proposed Cascade Point Ferry Terminal is slated to be located just beyond where the road ends in Juneau on land ...

Meridian, Idaho, resident Len Anderson was waiting in his Tesla to board the Alaska ferry from Bellingham on Sept. 11 when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection bomb-sniffing K-9 handler came up and ...