The Chilkat Connector study, like the Cascade Point ferry terminal, is funded using appropriations made by state legislators ...

The state is taking money that was appropriated for one bad idea almost a generation ago and spending it on an equally ...

Communities that depend on the route say they need more information, and they’re worried the plan could make it even harder ...

While the most popular way to visit this destination is by a cruise, it can get expensive. However, there's a ferry that's a ...

When the Alaska Marine Highway System officially drops the first part of its three-part master plan with state lawmakers at the end of the month it also will be the first time the ferry system has ...

The state of Alaska has hired a new leader for the Alaska Marine Highway System. Craig Tornga has been selected as the ferry system’s new marine director. In that role, he’ll oversee hundreds ...

At the ferry port in Sitka, a group of about 20 people were gathered in the parking lot, chatting away. Many in the group are assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard station, there to greet new arrivals.

So far, Alaska has been promised more than $400 million for ferry system operations and construction, with more on the way, through ferry funding programs that U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski pushed to ...

"The name, the Marine Highway System, is to try and jog people into thinking that it's not just a ferry on a back and forth, 10-minute run all day and night," explains Captain Brian Flory.

The AMHS (Alaska Marine Highway System) was created in the early 1960s. Our new state quickly recognized that Southeast Alaska’s transportation needs could only be served by ferry vessels ...

So far, Alaska has been promised more than $400 million for ferry system operations and construction, with more on the way, through ferry funding programs that U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski pushed to ...