U.S. Coast Guard

Aerial video from Port Everglades, Fla., shows Coast Guard crews offloading more than $1.4 billion in seized cocaine and marijuana.

Authorities have recovered a man’s body from the water in Newburyport, Massachusetts, nearly 24 hours after the man’s girlfriend reported him missing. Newburyport police and the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday night that Kevin Mahoney’s body had been located in the Merrimack River near the North End Boat Club around 5:20 p.m. Mahoney’s body was recovered after a coordinated...

Over 40 passengers and crew members had to be rescued when a boat caught fire off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning. The U.S. Coast Guard said it responded to the report of a boat fire around 8:40 a.m. The boat — the Yankee Patriot — was outside of Gloucester Harbor at the time. According to its website,…

Two separate oil sheens reported Saturday, June 19, off the coast of Southern California have led to an investigation into their cause.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued the kayaker who was attempting to make a solo voyage to Hawaii early Sunday morning about 70 miles west of Santa Cruz, officials stated in a release.

The search for nine crew members missing from a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana is continuing for a sixth day.

Families were anxiously awaiting news of the 12 people missing from a capsized oil industry vessel while divers searching for survivors got no response when they knocked on the ship’s hull Thursday

The Coast Guard searched for 12 people missing off the coast of Louisiana on Wednesday after finding one dead crew member and pulling six survivors from rough seas when their commercial platform vessel capsized in hurricane-force winds.

A man died after trying to rescue a young girl in the waters off Miami Beach, and officials searched the ocean Wednesday for the child’s father.

An on-board fire Tuesday night disabled the vessel amidst 50 mph winds and 30-foot waves south of Nova Scotia.

The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing its search for six people Saturday, three days after their boat apparently capsized off Florida’s Atlantic coast

A skier who was mauled by a brown bear was hoisted to safety out of Alaska backcountry over the weekend, officials said.

A man has been charged with making a false distress call to the U.S. Coast Guard in Maine that resulted in a more than five-hour search by boat and helicopter. Nathan Libby, 31, of Rockland, was charged with making the fake call Dec. 3 via VHF-FM radio channel 16, the U.S attorney’s office said in a news release Friday. Libby…

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a boat with about 20 people on board that was three days overdue to arrive in Florida after leaving the Bahamas

The Coast Guard said Thursday it’s calling off a search for three fishermen off the Maine coast because the mayday call appears to have been a hoax. Crews from Maine and Massachusetts responded to a mayday call placed at 6:30 a.m. about the vessel, a Coast Guard spokesperson said. The Coast Guard and Maine Marine Patrol were searching for...

A boater who was found clinging to his sinking vessel far off Florida’s Atlantic coastline Sunday told U.S. Coast Guard officials he didn’t think he’d make it.

The United States Coast Guard continues to search for a boat with four fishermen off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts.

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel on a counter-narcotics patrol returned to its home port Wednesday after 11 members of its 133-person crew tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said.

President-elect Joe Biden promised help for health care workers fighting the crisis Wednesday, but is still being blocked from receiving crucial transition data; COVID-19 relief remains stalled in Congress.

A U.S. Coastguard helicopter rescued an injured fisherman 60 miles off of Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, officials said. The call came in around 6 p.m. from a commercial fishing vessel named Persistence, according to a Coast Guard news release. A 50-year-old member of the crew was showing stroke-like symptoms.  A Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter was able to safely hoist...