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, airfields ...

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 ...

Bollinger Shipyards is moving forward with design work and construction of the Coast Guard’s first new heavy icebreaker in five decades, part of a program that has faced repeated delays and cost ...

(The Center Square) – Legislation has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives to ensure Coast Guard members receive the same 20-year retirement benefits as other branches of the ...

Coast Guardsmen in Southern California are seeing an influx of migrant crossings by boat — and with them, more foreign nationals from US adversary countries. Over the last 90 days, the Coast ...

A 72-year-old man who suffered "multiple strokes 300 miles offshore of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii" aboard a cruise ship last week is recovering after being airlifted to a hospital, the U.S. Coast Guard ...

Coast Guardsmen in Southern California are seeing an influx of migrant crossings by boat — and with them, more foreign nationals from U.S. adversary countries. Over the last 90 days, the Coast ...

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 ...

In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the U.S. Coast Guard intends to submit an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of ...

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 ...