Transportation

State transportation officials plan to take four of Alaska’s 11 ferries out of service next summer due to budget cuts.

It’s not so much the thinning ice that will drive up ship traffic in the north. It’s the price of oil, says UAF professor Lawson Brigham.

City Engineering Director Rorie Watt said the site, which is privately owned, could accommodate a park-and-ride for about a dozen cars at first, and later 30 if a pond is filled.

The new Capital Transit routes add service to Riverside Drive, but reduce service elsewhere.

The NTSB has not concluded what caused the accident. But the report details a statement from the only eyewitness that dark morning.

Budget cuts mean reduced maintenance. The downsized operation is expected to be tested this winter.