US Coast Guard News

Two Mexican nationals were detained for questioning Saturday after a boat carrying 1,850 pounds of marijuana came ashore at Manhattan Beach, federal authorities said.

Six undocumented Cuban migrants landed illegally on the Mona islet, in western Puerto Rico, U.S. authorities in San Juan reported Thursday.

A federal grand jury has indicted the owner, operator and chief engineer of a Maltese-flagged coal ship that has been detained in Virginia since April over alleged environmental violations.

The Tybee Marine Rescue Squadron's annual Memorial Day Weekend Barbeque Boston Butt Sale began Friday.

The Muskegon County Sheriff's Department's seasonal boat patrols are underway. The part-time officers will be out on Muskegon Lake and other bodies of water five day a week during the summer months.

Eduardo Arellano Felix, 56, reached an agreement with prosecutors that will send him to federal prison for 15 years for conspiracy to launder money and invest funds gained from violating drug laws.

The U.S. Coast Guard inquiry into the grounding of the Shell drillship Kulluk continued Friday, with questions on the overall management of the drillship and events that led up to the accident last Dec.

The Lighthouse Visitor Center is now only open Fridays through Mondays. The Kenneth C. Patrick Visitor Center will be closed through late December 2013.

Clean Harbors is on standby and may be deployed to assist in the clean up of the damage, shown here at Plaza Elementary School, caused by the Oklahoma tornadoes.

WASHINGTON –The challenges presented by tropical storms, hurricanes and other severe weather scenarios were the focus of a two-week exercise that ended this week at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling . Zihna, a fictitious hurricane, began as a tropical storm on May 11, traveled north and made landfall in the National Capital Region as a Category ... (more)

'Jarvis', a 378-foot High Endurance Cutter homeported in Alameda, decommissioned & transferred to the Bangladesh navy as the 'BNS Somudra Joy'. The signing over ceremony took place on Coast Guard Island in Alameda.

An expedition team of U.S. Coast Guard service members and North South Polar, Inc.

HOLLAND, Mich.- Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial start of summer for some.

In the Dish column on May 10, we planned to put to bed, for a while, at least, comments and letters about snapper soup and soft-shell crabs.

As summer nears, motorists are finding themselves waiting in line on the Alfred Cunningham Memorial Bridge as boaters make their way to New Bern and local pleasure craft take to the Neuse River.

Vice President Joe Biden told graduating cadets Wednesday at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that the nation will increasingly rely on the service for missions including more remote Arctic operations and fighting maritime crime alongside the U.S. Navy.

Our "Why do they call it that?" series continues its month-long Military May with a teenager's heroic sacrifice in the waters of Tampa Bay.

Two weeks after the deadly capsize of an America's Cup boat, the regatta director late Wednesday issued a list of 37 safety recommendations to make the 72-foot catamarans and their crews safer.

Executive vice president of new construction Chris Bollinger says the 154-foot Paul Clark was delivered to the 7th Coast Guard District in Key West, Fla.

The woman rescued Sunday by passersby Sunday ended up in Lake St. Clair from the breakwall rather than being involved in a jet ski crash as reported by the U.S. Coast Guard.