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(From MARAD) The Center for Biological Diversity intends to sue the federal government over a new marine highway in Alaska. The environmental group sent a notice letter on Sept. 21 to the U.S ...
A 20-year plan for the Alaska Marine Highway System is being met with skepticism about the likelihood of funding for proposed improvements and questions about the inability to resolve current ...
Seasoned travelers on the Alaska marine highway exchanged wary looks as the ferry slowed. Disruptions are increasingly common on Alaska's aging fleet of ferries. Six decades after the Alaska ...
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 ...
Such “campouts” are part of the most notorious aspects of the nearly 50-year-old Alaska Marine Highway System vessel. (Meredith Jordan / Juneau Empire) The shortage of licensed crew is ...
Seasoned travelers on the Alaska marine highway exchanged wary looks as the ferry slowed. Disruptions are increasingly common on Alaska’s aging fleet of ferries. Six decades after the Alaska ...
Apr. 1—First of two parts 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 ...