For two months, Congress has failed to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard. The resulting partial government shutdown has caused fear and uncertainty for many ...

WASHINGTON—Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has continued using a waterfront house on a military base in Washington, D.C., that she took over as a cabinet member, according to people ...

The U.S. Coast Guard was searching for six people after losing contact with their disabled boat off the coast of Guam following Typhoon Sinlaku.The crew of the 145-foot (44-meter) dry cargo vessel, ...

SEATTLE — The first two new Arctic Security Cutters, scheduled to be delivered to the Coast Guard in 2028, will be homeported in Alaska, the service said Thursday. Currently, the three certified ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

The Coast Guard’s “Living Marine Resources” program helps prevent the depletion of fish stocks in American territorial waters—but this mission has been vastly overshadowed by its drug interdiction ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Currently, thousands of Department of Homeland Security workers, including members of the US Coast Guard, have yet to receive their salaries as the shutdown continues, even after some ...

It was good news, but not for them. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. As word spread through the federal bureaucracy Monday that ...

Two crew members of a tugboat were killed and two others were injured in what the Coast Guard described Wednesday as a "confined space incident" aboard a barge moored in southeast Alaska last weekend.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a snowmobiler after he became stranded on a drifting ice during a whiteout blizzard off the coast of Mackinac Island. Mackinac Island Fire Chief Jason St. Onge said fire ...

MACKINAC ISLAND, MI - A daring rescue effort during blizzard conditions saw Mackinac Island firefighters teaming up with a U.S. Coast Guard crew to rescue a man who went out onto the ice of the ...