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 ...

This story has been corrected to note a photo shows a museum display at the ferry terminal in Bellingham, Washington, not aboard the Columbia ferry. When the Alaska Marine Highway System officially ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...