The Alaska Marine Highway System has been awarded $177.4 million to go towards operational costs, bringing Wi-Fi to passengers and replacing the oldest ferry in the fleet. Alaska’s Congressional ...

Dec. 29—JUNEAU — Wireless internet has been installed on an Alaska ferry, the first step in a planned $6.25 million rollout of Wi-Fi across the fleet. For over a decade, officials at the Alaska Marine ...

A draft of the 20-year plan for Alaska’s state ferry system is open for public comment. Officials with the Alaska Department of Transportation are asking residents to weigh in on the plan that will ...

This summer, the iconic Alaska state ferry will celebrate six decades since it went into service. In that time, the vessel has become a familiar and important part of life in communities between Homer ...

Rows of pilings in Portland Canal stretch across the water near the shoreline in Hyder, Alaska. The commentary author would like to see a new ferry terminal built on the canal. (Photo by Richard ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Take my ferry. Please. An Alaska borough stuck with a $90,000 monthly bill for maintaining a ferry it can’t use is offering the $78 million vessel free to any government ...

The Alaska Marine Highway System has been awarded $177.4 million to go towards operational costs, bringing WiFi to passengers and replacing the oldest ferry in the fleet. Alaska’s Congressional ...

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 ...

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 Alaska Department of Transportation is conducting environmental reviews and soliciting comments for a controversial ...

Over the course of their eight months building the Alaska Highway, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers met many hardships. The region's extreme weather and foreign terrain, the project's urgent pace, and ...