The Coast Guard initially expected the Polar Sentinel to be operational in 2024, but it is now unlikely to enter service until 2030, according to a Dec. 18 news release from U.S. Rep. Carlos ...

The US Coast Guard faces a $7 billion backlog in infrastructure improvements. Deferred maintenance and insufficient budgets have worsened the Coast Guard's infrastructure issues. Piers ...

A U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) crew on Friday interdicted 21 illegal immigrants aboard a 25-foot boat about 20 miles west of the Point Loma coast in San Diego, California. The 21 illegal immigrants ...

Over the last 90 days, the Coast Guard has recorded about 200 migrant boat encounters near the San Diego coast, amounting to approximately two migrant boat interventions per day, officials told ...

The Coast Guard said that Puerto Rico law enforcement spotted the 20-foot "panga-style" boat about three nautical miles off the coast of Aguadilla, a town on Puerto Rico’s northwestern tip ...

A boatload of Russian nationals and migrants from the Dominican Republic were intercepted in US waters and turned over to federal immigration and border patrol authorities, the Coast Guard reported.

A U. Coast Guard Valiant patrol boat crew is underway with cocaine on board that was seized about 50 miles northeast of the Dominican Republic, Feb. 17, 2025. Seaman Reese Fishbaugh U.S. Coast ...

In this Dec. 22, 2024 file photo, a China Coast Guard ship is seen near the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. Credit: Japanese Coast Guard Subscribe for ads-free reading China ...

The missions of the U.S. Coast Guard propel its members across changing and sometimes perilous waters, into neighborhoods damaged by ever-more-intense hurricanes and around the melting ice of the ...

Coast Guard plans call for procuring a combination of National Security Cutters (NSCs), Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs) and Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) as replacements for 90 earlier-generation ...

The Coast Guard’s infrastructure maintenance backlog costs have surged to at least $7 billion, rising by nearly $4.5 billion in just three years. Almost half of the service’s shore infrastructure is ...

WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard awarded Bollinger Shipyards a $951 million contract modification to advance the detail design and construction of the service’s upcoming heavy icebreaker program ...