Meagan Nye doesn’t always know when or if her workweek will end. She’s an engineer on the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry ...

Spanning 1,300 miles over six days, the Alaska Marine Highway System is the longest ferry route in the United States. This ...

The first phase of the project includes extending the end of Glacier Highway, designing and preparing the area for ...

National Maritime Day is May 22. It’s a small but important holiday recognizing the hard work that goes into a career at sea.

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 ...

Alaska Marine Highway officials say they’re struggling to attract and retain workers, especially licensed staff. AMHS Marine Director Craig Tornga told House committees last week that the ferry ...

“It was just way worse than we thought,” said Renner, the supervisory wildlife biologist at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The research by Renner and her colleagues found that ...

A collapse of Gulf of Alaska cod stocks that forced harvest closures in recent years is blamed on marine heatwave conditions, and those have been linked to human-caused climate change.

Nearly 80,000 acres of the 180,000-acre island were set aside for Navy use and the rest of the island remained part of what eventually became the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.

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