Joel William Kawahara went missing last week after departing from his home alone aboard the fishing vessel. Coast Guard crews found the vessel.

The U.S. Coast Guard employed a Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter to fire at and disable a smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific.

Two people were rescued uninjured Monday afternoon after their small plane crashed near the Katzehin River flats outside Haines. The U.S. Coast Guard was notified around 4 p.m. Monday that a plane had gone down near the Chilkoot Inlet, just south of Haines.

As called for in a new plan to reorganize and transform the Coast Guard for the future, the service has established a Program Executive Office (PEO) for

The family of Kevin Finkbonner is questioning why he was in the water for more than an hour before rescuers arrived to the site of the sinking near Point Roberts.

The Coast Guard's acting commandant says Kodiak's 154-foot fast response cutters arriving this year can operate in the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea.

The Coast Guard rescued four girls ages 8 to 14 stranded on a rock near Black Beach Trailhead in Minnesota. Construction warning issued after foreign-born population plummets

The agency's plan, announced this spring, would have removed almost 150 buoys as part of an effort to modernize the navigational setup.