Last month, the state development agency said it would kick Vigor out of the Ketchikan Shipyard. Now, AIDEA and Vigor say ...

AIDEA said Vigor Alaska had underutilized the facility and failed to invest enough in repairs, maintenance and upgrades. The ...

The Columbia, a mainliner in the Alaska Marine Highway System, docked in Skagway in early March. The state is again exploring ...

Washington state’s ferry system, for instance, pays pilots 25% more than Alaska’s. Staffing shortages are chronic throughout Alaska’s state government, although the current 16% statewide ...

Alaska’s state ferry system continues to face stiff headwinds when it comes to staffing, state officials say. Alaska Marine Highway officials say they’re struggling to attract and retain ...

Ferry systems in other states have qualified ... However, while visiting the Alaska State Capitol in February to deliver her annual speech to the Legislature, she called the use of toll credits ...

As if years of political interference and, for many elected officials, disinterest weren’t enough to sink the Alaska Marine ...

Pilot positions in Washington state’s ferry system pay 25% more than Alaska does, Tornga said. “We have to be reloading all the time in our deck officers,” he said. Tornga said the current ...

The road would give King Cove residents access to potentially life-saving medical care, but it could threaten key subsistence ...

The state ferries carried just over 185,000 passengers and about 65,000 vehicles last year on its routes stretching from ...

A proposed 20-year plan seeking to restore the ailing Alaska Marine Highway System to a more reliable and sustainable transportation hub calls for, above all, adequate funding for operations and ...