US Coast Guard News

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.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, crew members of a CBP P-3 aircraft spotted a speedboat north of Panama and alerted the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard.

50-year-old David Lashley was living under the alias Welsly Byrd after an alleged connection to the disappearance of a houseboat in an attempt to fake his own death in Florida.

Newly graduated United States Coast Guard ensigns divest themselves of their cadet insignia by tossing caps and shoulder boards into the air at the conclusion of the 132nd Commencement at the United States Coast Guard Academy Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

A fast acting crew aboard a South Ferry boat Sunday afternoon averted a crisis when a vehicle belonging to Josh Horton of Horton Dredge & Dock of Greenport caught fire about 2:30 p.m. The ferry was loading in North Haven when Eric Curko, who is a new South Ferry captain just completing his training, smelled smoke.

The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and Keepers of the North Head Lighthouse invite the public to attend the 115th anniversary of the North Head Lighthouse at Cape Disappointment State Park in Ilwaco.

Jay Wesley Rydberg, 40, has been living on a sailboat for the past year in Key West's Garrison Bight Marina, according to reports from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

Officials are looking into the possibility that a ship anchored offshore may have spilled oil that slightly damaged roughly a mile and a half stretch of beaches on Galveston's West End.

Since more Coast Guard ships and planes are operating in the Arctic, Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr.

Last weekend's extensive, 12-hour search for a New Bedford chiropractor could cost between $100,000 and $200,000, police said.

The Lagoon Bridge, now under construction near Kentucky Lake, is the first phase of the replacement for the Eggners Ferry Bridge over the Tennessee River.

Fifty-year-old David Leon Lashley was arrested Monday in the Clark area near the Montana border by U.S. Marshals and U.S. Coast Guard investigators.

The landmark lighthouses that sit along Grand Haven's south pier and state park will receive a long-awaited restoration this spring after a lengthy process that began more than three years ago.

The grounding of a Royal Dutch Shell PLC drill barge off a remote Alaska island began with a bracket connected to a tow line being ripped off the vessel in heavy Gulf of Alaska weather, a Shell official testified Monday.

Of those, 17 were recommended for further assessment and potential removal of both fuel oil and oil cargo.

Two jet-boaters race into a wall of spray from another boat during the annual "Race the Joe" jet-boat races on the St.

First responders and emergency crews were dispatched to a 'fake gunman.' They responded on the water and in the air.

No longer needed by the U.S. Coast Guard, the historic Superior Harbor South Breakwater lighthouse is being offered free to any eligible entity for educational, recreational, cultural or historic preservation purposes.

No longer needed by the U.S. Coast Guard, the lighthouse is being offered to any eligible group that would use it - and pay for its upkeep - for education, recreational, cultural or historic preservation purposes.

A decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard ship that was sold to a private owner by the Port Huron Museum is being reopened to the public.