The ferry Columbia is shown at Ketchikan’s shipyard on Sept. 19, 2022. (Eric Stone/KRBD) One of Alaska’s main ferries won’t be running this winter after all. The Columbia was going to be used on the ...

The 418-foot-long Columbia ferry is docked at the Vigor shipyard in Ketchikan, getting repairs, June 21, 2023. (Photo by Mikko Wilson/KTOO) The 50-year-old state ferry Columbia is out of service for ...

The Alaska state ferry Columbia — which has been out of service since late November for its annual overhaul and repairs but was supposed to go back to work this summer — will be laid up until the end ...

The proposed summer 2025 Alaska Marine Highway System schedule shows essentially the same level of service to Southeast Alaska as in the past several years: one ship serving the mainline route, with ...

An Alaska ferry will dock in Bellingham on Friday, Aug. 9 — the first such visit since a labor strike ended last week. The Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific went on strike July 24, bringing the ...

After a three-week hiatus, an Alaska ferry arrived at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal on Friday, Aug. 9. During the strike, the Alaska Marine Highway System refunded fares for 8,570 passengers and ...

A rusting steel walkway roofed with faded plexiglass led to the ferry docked in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Sirens wailed from the container port half a mile away, cutting through the moist air, ...

ABOARD THE M/V COLUMBIA, HEADING TO ALASKA — The sky: a promising cerulean blue. Bellingham Bay: calm. The passengers: swarming the decks of the M/V Columbia, thrilling to that landlubber’s ...