Alaska Marine Highway System

The Alaska Marine Highway System and the state Department of Public Safety announced the renewal of a ride-along agreement for Alaska State Troopers earlier this month. The program allows Troopers to ride for free on personal trips — if space allows — in exchange for law enforcement presence.

The state announced significant changes to this year's summer ferry schedule. The mainliners Columbia and Kennicott will not be sailing at the same time, due to short staffing, and sailings across the Gulf of Alaska have been postponed until more crew is hired.

Seldovia Village Tribe and the Cities of Seldovia and Homer formally established a three-way partnership at Monday’s Homer City Council meeting. The joint resolution created an alliance between the two Kachemak Bay communities to better work together on their shared priorities.

The M/V Tustumena will depart Homer Tuesday.

The Alaska Marine Highway System has cancelled Wednesday's sailing of the ferry Tustumena from Homer to Kodiak and back. In an announcement, ferry system…

The Alaska Marine Highway System has released the proposed ferry schedule for this summer (May 2021 through Sept. 2021). Comments are being taken now…

The Alaska Marine Highway Reshaping Work Group is seeking public input regarding the future of Alaska’s ferry system. Meetings will be held providing…

The Alaska State Ferry Tustumena steamed into Homer Monday night at 7 p.m., but there wasn’t the usual rush of cars and people disembarking. In fact, the…

Ferry service, besieged by gubernatorial budget cuts and equipment problems in the past year, is scheduled to resume Tuesday locally with the Alaska…

The Alaska Marine Highway System released its Summer 2020 schedule last week. Because of maintenance and budgeting issues in the current fiscal year,…