Multiple initiatives to update the Coast Guard are underway in both chambers of Congress, and within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). All seek to elevate the service so it’s on par ...

The Coast Guard received nearly $25 billion in the Trump administration's reconciliation bill to address long-standing maintenance and infrastructure problems and buy additional ships and aircraft ...

The Coast Guard plans to buy 84 new ships and aircraft by 2035 with an injection of $25 billion in supplemental funding approved last week as part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act. Adm ...

On July 12, the U.S. Coast Guard interdicted three people who were trying to enter the U.S. illegally by boat and were apprehended at Imperial Beach in San Diego County, California.

The Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter program, which received $4.3 billion under the federal budget bill, isn’t expected to deliver its first new ship until 2030 at the earliest.

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer is being called an American hero by many after he rescued over 200 people from the deadly floods that took place in Texas the weekend of July 4th. U.S. Coast ...

NPR's Michel Martin asks U.S. Coast Guard Air Operations Officer Nathan Shakespeare about his work coordinating rescues in the Texas flood zone from a base in Corpus Christi.

Phillip Waldron, currently serving as command master chief of the Coast Guard 's Personnel Service Center, has been named the 15 th master chief petty officer of the Coast Guard. Waldron, a native ...

The Coast Guard late Thursday said it found a boat in New Haven harbor that was reported missing late Wednesday. The boaters on board were discovered to be unresponsive, Coast Guard officials said.

What GAO Found The U.S. Coast Guard faces increasing challenges operating and maintaining its fleet of 241 cutters—vessels 65 feet or greater in length with accommodations for crew to live on board.