Ferry, AK

The Columbia state ferry is stuck in Ketchikan due to problems with its port main engine, with repairs expected later this week and resumption of service planned beginning next Sunday, Nov. 8, the Alaska Marine Highway System announced Monday. The ferry reached Ketchikan on Sunday, after a short-term delay in its schedule was initially announced […] The post Columbia ferry will miss at least a week of service due to engine trouble appeared first on

Equipment is being staged at the Cascade Point Ferry Terminal site, but the project hasn’t officially broken ground, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities announced Monday.  Work was originally set to begin this past summer. But due to permitting concerns raised by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, work on the proposed terminal […] The post DOT stages equipment at Cascade Point in anticipation of ferry terminal’s first phase appeared first on Chilkat…

The move is raising concerns among critics that the Dunleavy administration is improperly fast tracking the project before a new governor takes office.

The state of Alaska has given a contractor the green light to begin preparing for the construction of a controversial ferry terminal between Haines and Juneau. The move is raising concerns that the Dunleavy Administration is improperly fast tracking the project before a new governor takes office. That’s despite overwhelming opposition from critics who argue […]

According to Alaska State Troopers, 35-year-old Roger Williams, Jr. was last known to be taking his red and silver 16-foot Lund boat from the Angoon boat harbor to the ferry terminal to go cockle fishing.

In this newscast: The Juneau School Board will consider a complaint over curriculum being used at Kax̲dig̲oowu Héen Elementary at its Tuesday meeting; Both candidates vying for the open House District 3 seat in the Alaska Legislature say they aren't convinced the state's controversial Cascade Point ferry terminal project will benefit Southeast communitites; The monthlong moose hunt near Petersburg, Wrangell and Kake closed in mid-October, and final harvest numbers show it was another record-b

A Ketchikan fire station is back in operation after a fire damaged the facility; The empty St. Ann's building in Juneau has grant funding to be developed into a senior care center; Alaska's ferry laundry is done by people incarcerated a Lemon Creek Correctional Center for less than $2 per hour; A group of Sitka's Mt. Edgecumbe High School alumni, parents and educators want to see improvements at the state-run boarding school

A hidden workforce inside Juneau’s Lemon Creek Correctional Center helps to keep the state’s ferry system afloat.