SEATTLE — The car ferry designed to serve travelers between Whidbey Island and Port Townsend received a rousing and largely unchallenged endorsement from a state-hired maritime consultant Tuesday.

My family — me, my husband, our 8- and 3-year-old daughters, and our wire-haired dog, who's 14 years young — recently took a trip to the Hamptons. We could've driven down from our home in Vermont ...

Diesel-burning ferry boats could be a thing of the past for Skagit County. The county plans to replace its passenger ferry with an all-electric model. It would be the first of its kind built anywhere ...