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This is part of a press release from the Alaska DOT and Public Facilities.   The M/V Tustumena is returning to service earlier than expected and will now offer service to Homer, Seldovia, Port Lions, Ouzinkie, and Kodiak on May 14-17, 2019. The vessel will continue its previously scheduled voyages from May 18, 2019 onwards. The new Tustumena trips are …

The Tustumena in Homer, AK (Photo by Isaac Wedin/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT The city of Kodiak, Ouzinkie, and Port Lions won’t have ferry service from March till early April this year. The reason for the five-week gap in ferry service is the Tustumena needs to complete its annual state overhaul.  A process to make needed repairs and conduct mandatory inspections. Captain …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council may pass a resolution to support the replacement of the aging ferry Tustumena. The Tusty has been in commission since 1963, and it’s also a priority on the Kodiak Island Borough’s 2018 state capital improvement project list. Items included on that list are ones that will be considered for state funding in addition to …

The Alaska State Ferry Tustumena got back underway again this morning after being tied up in Kodiak over the holiday weekend due to inclement weather. According to weather records, southeast winds on Christmas Eve were gusting over 40 knots. The Alaska Marine Highway home office sent a notice Saturday afternoon that due to those high winds and resultant heavy seas, …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and Kodiak City Council are continuing in their effort to keep each other in the loop following an agreement to improve communication between the borough and city. Tonight they’ll hold a joint work session to update each other on issues important to the entire community. Along with updates from the borough lands committee, …

The people of two small Kodiak Island Borough communities won’t see ferry service today. That’s because of the storm coming through. Due to the heavy weather forecast of seas over 20-feet for Southcentral waters tonight and tomorrow morning, the Alaska State ferry Tustumena will be skipping its calls to Port Lions and Ouzinkie. The Tusty made it to Kodiak early …

Jay Barrett/KMXT draft_ferry_schedule 896.54 Kb This week the Alaska Marine Highway System released a draft of the state ferry schedule for next summer. There aren’t a lot of changes for the Kodiak run, with service by the Tustumena three weeks a month between here and Homer. The Kennicott will cover the other week when the Tusty goes down the Alaska …

Jay Barrett/KMXT Alaska State Ferry service is set to begin to Old Harbor today (Monday). The ferry Tustumena is scheduled to arrive from Sand Point at about 6:30 this evening on its first regularly scheduled stop. It will depart an hour later, and arrive in Kodiak at 3 a.m. tomorrow. Port calls to Old Harbor this summer will only occur …

Jay Barrett/KMXT The State of Alaska released its winter ferry schedule on Friday, and there will be some significant changes to service to and from Kodiak because the ferry Tustumena will be out of service for nearly six months. In the meantime, as Marine Highway spokesman Jeremy Woodrow in Juneau explains, the ferry Kennicott will try to pick up the …