The Coast Guard has about 56,000 active-duty and auxiliary personnel who operate 259 cutters, 143 helicopters, 57 fixed-wing aircraft, and more than 1,600 smaller boats and launches, according to ...

MANISTEE, MI - An emergency drill designed to simulate a downed aircraft in Lake Michigan is being planned for this week near ...

The U.S. Coast Guard doesn't have the Navy's heavily armed warships, but during the Cold War some Coast Guard ships were outfitted with missiles. Here's why.

A Coast Guard Air Station Savannah crew located two people who downed their disabled aircraft near the Little Black River, South Carolina, on Dec. 7, 2024.

What's True. The Trump administration fired former head of the U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Linda L. Fagan, according to a bulletin sent to all Coast Guard employees, on Jan. 21, 2025.

Coast Guard Cutter Valiant dumped over 12,000 pounds of narcotics worth $140M at a ... a Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard air crew located a suspicious vessel in international waters about 30 miles ...

It states that a Coast Guard Sikorsky MH-60 Jayhawk, operating out of Cold Bay in the Aleutian Islands, has joined the search. Unconfirmed indications suggest the missing Caravan is N321BA which ...

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for six people who were aboard a Cessna 414 aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the San Diego coast on Sunday.

Video captured shows the rescue of a 72-year-old man who had suffered "multiple strokes 300 miles offshore Kailua-Kona, Hawaii," the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard successfully medevaced a 72-year-old stroke patient from Holland America Line's Koningsdam cruise ship, 300 miles off ... The Coast Guard sent an HC-130 Hercules airplane and an MH-65 ...