US Coast Guard News

The Korean company that owns the StarKist Tuna brand is being sued in the U.S. District Court of Guam by the family of a chief engineer who drowned aboard one of the company's ships.

The Obama administration on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Washington to throw out a three-year-old lawsuit by the owners of the Ambassador Bridge that seeks to compel the Coast Guard to grant it a permit to build a second bridge and block a new government-owned Detroit River crossing.

UPDATED 6/17 @ 2:00PM: Toledo Police Department, FBI, and US Coast Guard officials this afternoon are searching a segment of the Maumee River for 18-month-old Elaina Steinfurth, now missing for more than two weeks.

Travelers can expect detours and delays on Tuesday as state highway officials conduct scheduled operations on two interstates throughout the day.

Officials say RCMP and U.S. Coast Guard boat with joint crews are needed to crack down on criminal gangs taking advantage of each country's separate jurisdiction and inability to continue hot pursuits over the border.

The Coast Guard is exercising a $76.8 million contract option for another cutter to be built by Huntington Ingalls in Pascagoula.

The search boast spent five hours on the water near the Anthony Wayne Bridge, known as the High Level Bridge, as fishermen somberly looked on.

Daladier Faust,22, gets a hug from girlfriend, Jenny Terry,21, after Fasust and friend Jacob Crooms,22, of Tampa were rescued by the US Coast Guard.

A beachcomber called 911 after finding the body about one mile north of Copalis Beach near Iron Springs.

The cutter Storis was listed for auction last week on the General Services Commission website at an opening bid of $60,000, KMXT reported .

The U.S. Coast Guard is warning boaters on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario to be on the lookout for large logs and other debris washed into the waterways by recent heavy rains.

Two jet skiers who went missing Sunday night off the Hernando County coast have been found safe, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a crew spotting two missing men on a purple water scooter.

The 22-year-old men didn't return after going for a ride on the scooter about 6 p.m. Sunday.

The advocacy group looking to renovate the Wood Island Life Saving Station has gathered enough signatures on two petitions it hopes will change the fate of the historic facility by forcing a special election on its future.

Fill your soul with the voices of locally-grown, nationally-rising folk and country musical talent during Friday and Saturday evening performances June 21 and 22 at SS&C SummerWind Performing Arts Center.

You take a bigger role in bringing up baby, in raising children and teens. You don't come home from work and plunk down on the couch and read the newspaper sipping a high-ball while the wife cooks dinner and the kids are out of sight.

The decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bramble might make an appearance on the big screen.

Frank Dipaula, 78, of Keystone Heights, and Tom Grant, 67, were both rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and FWC crews after their 21-foot boat capsized.

The search for a 19-year-old man swept away from his family off Sarasota's Lido Key has been suspended due to inclement weather and darkness moving into the area.