CLEARWATER, Fla. (CBS12) — A man suffering from severe abdominal pain was airlifted by the Coast Guard from a vessel far off the Florida coast. The dramatic rescue unfolded Thursday as a Coast ...

It was partially to prevent exactly this eventuality that the Coast Guard adopted its own identifying racing stripes. The United States Coast Guard shares the story of one heroic ocean rescue in ...

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., raised questions about U.S. Coast Guard staffing after a Mexican naval ship crashed into New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge on May 17, killing two and injuring dozens.

LONG BEACH, Wash. — The U.S. Coast Guard suspended their search for a 15-year-old boy after he disappeared swimming offshore Friday evening. The Coast Guard said it suspended their search at 12: ...

In broad terms, the Coast Guard is the aquatic police of the United States, patrolling coasts and waterways for lawbreakers, ensuring the safety of civilian vessels and swimmers, and when ...

MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (WGN) — The U.S. Coast Guard issued a warning Tuesday after an armed phosphorus pyrotechnic washed up on Montrose Beach a day prior. According to the Coast Guard, three ...

This was not a drill. Members of US Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City nixed a Fleet Week search and rescue demonstration in Manhattan on Memorial Day for the real thing — more than 100 miles ...

As Coast Guard Auxiliarists, we’ll pause to pay homage to the rich history of the armed sea services and both the active duty and reserve components of the U.S. Coast Guard's military and law ...

The Coast Guard has temporarily relieved the commander of its largest installation, Coast Guard Base Alameda in California. Capt. David Melton, who had led the command since last June, was ...

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — Two Coast Guard crews. Six suspicious vessels. 18,290 pounds of cocaine and 2,585 lbs. of marijuana. $138 million in illegal drugs removed from the Caribbean. In May alone ...

Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon will soon be receiving its first Coast Guard aircraft—this HU-25 Guardian—for the collection. [Courtesy: U.S. Coast Guard] It takes an aircraft to deliver an ...

WESTWEGO, La. (WGNO) — The United States Coast Guard is currently searching for a man in the Westwego area after he reportedly fell off of a crane barge. According to Lt. Preston Stroebel ...