In the middle of March 1942, approximately one month after President Franklin Rosevelt authorized the highway, the Army Corps of Engineers began arriving in Alaska. More than 10,000 soldiers ...

A proposed 20-year plan seeking to restore the ailing Alaska Marine Highway System to a more reliable and sustainable transportation hub calls for, above all, adequate funding for operations and ...

1942, U.S. Army. Signal Corps. When President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the building of the Alaska Highway in February 1942, the problem of who would actually do the construction quickly arose.

No one was hurt when the structure fell onto the Seward Highway on the south side of Alaska's biggest city ... and front-end loaders had it cleared by 6:30 a.m., department spokesperson Shannon ...

Roughly 24% of the positions in the Alaska Marine Highway System are vacant, and the rate is highest among the positions that require most training. Among wheelhouse positions, the vacancy rate is ...