The United States considered making a bid for the North Atlantic island in 1867, when it also purchased Alaska from Russia.

The Mobile Bay and three other cutters are tasked with managing ice cover for commercial maritime traffic in and around the northern Great Lakes.

The last king tides of the season will swamp the Oregon Coast from Jan. 11 to Jan 13. King tides occur when the alignment of ...

The Ocean State is set to add four 360-foot U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Heritage-class Offshore Patrol Cutters. These advanced ...

A ship that had been stuck in the St. Lawrence River northeast of Montreal since Christmas Eve was successfully refloated on ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is doubling down on its commitment to Rhode Island, with Senator Jack Reed announcing that four new ...

Within the Bangladesh territorial waters, Bangladesh Coast Guard intercepted 06 Indian fishing boats, carrying 95 fishermen, while they were illegally fishing. These boats were identified as: 02 Coast ...

THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE is scheduled to hold a hearing for Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, on January ...

The polar vortex that dipped south over the weekend kept much of the country east of the Rockies in its frigid grip Monday, making many roads treacherous, forcing school closures, and causing ...

Taiwan's coast guard has said that it suspects a ship damaged an undersea communications cable over the weekend, but that bad ...

A total of 90 Bangladeshi sailors and fishermen, who had been detained and provided shelter in India, have returned home.  They were reunited with their families along with their fishing boats at ...