ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — National Safe Boating Week runs from May 17 to 23. To mark the occasion, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is holding a free vessel safety check event on Saturday, May 17.

Before you do, the Coast Guard in Cleveland is urging boaters to check all of their equipment and make a safety plan. “Right now, we are really preaching be prepared for anything,” says ...

The US Coast Guard's (USCG) crackdown on illegal fishing in the Gulf of Mexico continued on Tuesday (May 13) with the detention of four Mexican fishermen. The four Mexican nationals were spotted ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a boat that appears to have sunk about two miles off the Oregon coast on Thursday night. Someone on shore saw four or five flares apparently being shot from ...

WESTPORT, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 44-year-old captain who went missing when his boat capsized near Westport on Friday. The Coast Guard received a call at ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The captain of a large fishing boat remains missing after the vessel capsized off the Washington coast early Friday morning. Just after 8 a.m., a crew member of the ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — A boater was rescued by the U. S. Coast Guard near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge early Saturday morning following the capsizing of his 15-foot vessel. A 911 call at 7:34 a.m ...

The U.S. Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, transits through pack ice in the Southern Ocean, December 2022. (PO3 Aidan Cooney/Coast Guard) Full production of a new polar ...

The 144th Coast Guard Academy Comencement Excercises are scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on May 21. Noem, the former Governor of South Dakota, was nominated to be Homeland Security Secretary by ...

The closure is due to construction being done on two government piers that are leased by the U.S. Coast Guard Station Grand Haven. The piers are used by the Coast Guard as a vessel refuge and ...

You can get in touch with Micah by emailing m.mccartney@newsweek.com. Taiwan has released footage showing its coast guard using a water cannon to expel a Chinese fishing vessel from Taipei ...