An avalanche closed part of a highway in the borough of Haines, a small town about 90 miles north of Juneau in Alaska’s ...

Southwest Airlines service at Anchorage, new AMHS ship, port upgrades, and road and bridge projects statewide.

It’s a wintry mess Friday across Southcentral and areas of the Interior. A few avalanches occurred overnight across the state ...

Travelers on the Alaska Marine Highway’s ferry Columbia got an unexpected Christmas present on a recent trip from Bellingham to Southeast Alaska: Wi-Fi. The Alaska Department of Transportation ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story was updated at 7:10 a.m. Sunday, June 22, 2025, to reflect that the Parks Highway is open with pilot car operations. Several fires continued to blaze in Interior Alaska as ...

Why Does Alaska Have Interstate Highways? Looking at a highway map of Alaska, things pretty immediately look out of place. The state is simply too big and too rural for an extensive state highway ...

WASILLA -- Shera Sowders Melson's first experience with a truck-mounted light bar came on a sunny fall day last year. Melson was driving west on the Palmer-Wasilla Highway when she noticed a big ...