The 59-year-old ship offered even fewer sailings last year due to repairs.
Transportation
Alaska state ferries’ 2023 summer ferry schedule shows more cuts to service
The mainliners Columbia and Kennicott will not be sailing at the same time because the state doesn’t have enough crew to run them.
Alaska Airlines’ flying salmon is about to be extinct
Alaska Airlines will paint over “Salmon Thirty Salmon,” the custom Boeing 737 that looks like an 129-foot-long Alaska king salmon, the company confirmed Monday.
Kotzebue residents want a say if Arctic traffic brings the military back to town
Subsistence harvest and community cohesion are at the forefront of concerns.
Nome grapples with its future as Arctic shipping traffic increases: ‘Like a highway going right past us’
Large industrial ships can travel through the Arctic waters by Nome faster — shaving days off transit times that would otherwise take them through the Panama Canal.
Alaska looks to obscure accounting quirk to turn old federal funds into new ones for state ferries
The state needs almost $50 million in matching funds for this year’s ferry grants. And Alaska’s transportation commissioner has an idea for where to get it.