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 ...

The Alaska Marine Highway, the state ferry system, also carries passengers through this majestic, island-dotted corridor of southeast Alaska. On the ferries, familiarly known as the ”Blue Canoes ...

The ferry was scheduled to sail through Southeast Alaska and south to Washington state all summer. Now, it’s in the Vigor shipyard in Ketchikan until at least June 28. “The Coast Guard was on ...

To see the difference, we dug into the archives of the Alaska Marine Highway and constructed three traffic maps for the month of July. July has historically been the ferry system’s busiest month ...

Just after 6 a.m., a handful of cars drive down the ramp into the LeConte, the Alaska state ferry docked in Juneau. The LeConte's destinations that day include Angoon, an indigenous village of 450 ...