NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a barge worker who went missing in the Mississippi River Wednesday afternoon. Family confirmed that the barge worker was Rico Williams.

The Coast Guard’s new commercial icebreaker is enroute to the West Coast ahead of its August commissioning in Alaska, marking a milestone in the effort to rebuild U.S. defenses in the Arctic Region.

Members of US Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City nixed a Fleet Week demonstration of a search and rescue mission for the real thing more than 100 miles away on Memorial Day. Facebook/U.S. Coast ...

The racing stripes of Coast Guard ships serve as important branding and help ensure that the vessels can be identified. The design, so familiar to millions of Americans and others around the world ...

A graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy walks past a protest outside of the graduation ceremony on May 21, 2025, where police estimated that approximately150 people protested Kristi Noem’s ...

The Coast Guard is a multi-mission maritime military service within the Department of Homeland Security. In 2024, it employed more than 39,000 active-duty service members, of which about 30,600 ...

The Coast Guard began its search Sunday after the fishing boat crew Wind Walker sent a mayday call at about 12:10 a.m. local time. The Wind Walker's crew reported that the 50-foot boat was ...

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 ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said it suspended a search in the Pacific Ocean for a crew member from Rancho Cordova. Seaman Bryan K. Lee, 23, was reported unaccounted for on Feb. 4 while Coast Guard Cutter ...

The Coast Guard did not specify when the data breach occurred or what caused it, but said it is working to determine the “source and impact” of the breach. After a junior petty officer alerted ...

MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) — The Coast Guard returned 31 undocumented immigrants to their country of origin following three separate interdictions off the coast of Florida.