US Coast Guard News

HOLLAND, Mich.- Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial start of summer for some.

In the Dish column on May 10, we planned to put to bed, for a while, at least, comments and letters about snapper soup and soft-shell crabs.

As summer nears, motorists are finding themselves waiting in line on the Alfred Cunningham Memorial Bridge as boaters make their way to New Bern and local pleasure craft take to the Neuse River.

Vice President Joe Biden told graduating cadets Wednesday at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that the nation will increasingly rely on the service for missions including more remote Arctic operations and fighting maritime crime alongside the U.S. Navy.

Our "Why do they call it that?" series continues its month-long Military May with a teenager's heroic sacrifice in the waters of Tampa Bay.

An expedition team of U.S. Coast Guard service members and North South Polar, Inc.

Two weeks after the deadly capsize of an America's Cup boat, the regatta director late Wednesday issued a list of 37 safety recommendations to make the 72-foot catamarans and their crews safer.

Executive vice president of new construction Chris Bollinger says the 154-foot Paul Clark was delivered to the 7th Coast Guard District in Key West, Fla.

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.

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.