Coast Guard

A group of boaters had to be rescued by members of the Coast Guard Sunday after their boat sank offshore in Empire, Louisiana.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search Monday afternoon for nine people, including a child, who were missing after a floatplane crashed in the waters of Puget Sound northwest of Seattle.

State police said around 9:15 a.m. that a search team has recovered the body of one of the victims. The search for the second victim is ongoing.

Two brothers went missing off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard after jumping off the Jaws Bridge in Edgartown overnight, officials said, prompting a search by water and air for much of the day Monday. The body of one of the brothers was found Monday morning, but the other brother remained missing into the afternoon, and both Massachusetts State Police...

The family is still unsure what sparked the problem, but no one was hurt in the ordeal.

The Merrimack River is a great spot in the summer, but it can be dangerous and that’s prompting calls for safety as temperatures start to heat up.

The body of a local musician was found in the Merrimack River in Massachusetts Tuesday, police said. Robert Urzi, of Newburyport, was known affectionately by people in town as “Bahama Bob,” local police said. In a statement, police called Urzi “a staple on the local music scene” and added, “We are saddened by this loss and our condolences go out…

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a person in the water off the coast of Massachusetts, the agency wrote on Twitter Friday morning.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a person in the water off the coast of Massachusetts, the agency wrote on Twitter Friday morning. The person is believed to be somewhere between Nomans Island, which is south of Martha’s Vineyard, and New Bedford. The person was on a 77-foot fishing boat called the “Susan Rose” out of Point Judith,...

The U.S. Coast Guard responding Saturday to Stellwagen Bank off the coast of Massachusetts after an unmanned and adrift boat was reported there. The boat in question is approximately 20-25 feet in length, the Coast Guard said. Just before 7 p.m., the agency said it had sent its own boats and helicopters to investigate. The Coast Guard told NBC10...

Massachusetts State Police said they would resume their search Saturday.

Newburyport fire officials say the incident involves a family of six that was fishing on Deer Island.

The search for the 6-year-old boy is ongoing.

Editor’s note: For the latest on this developing story, click here or go to Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra to read the story in Spanish. Several agencies responded Thursday evening to the Merrimack River near the Whittier Bridge in Massachusetts for reports of several people in the water, and officials later confirmed that one woman had died and her 6-year-old son...

A small private airplane mistakenly entered restricted airspace near President Joe Biden’s Delaware vacation home Saturday, prompting the brief evacuation of the president and first lady, the White House and the Secret Service said.

New details have been released after a woman was killed and two young children were injured when a sudden storm prompted a boat captain to cut loose their parasail, which then dragged them across the ocean and slammed them into a bridge in the Florida Keys, authorities said. A nearby boater saw them hit the water and rushed to rescue…

During the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduation on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris called on the graduating cadets to demonstrate American values in the face of adversity. “You all graduate into a world that’s going to need your leadership— one that is full of possibility and the promise of progress.

Dramatic rescue footage showed four injured sailors stranded after their boat was badly damaged in rough seas 80 miles south of Long Island, and the daring rescue to attempt to save them.

A Vermont man was arrested on charges including murder on the high seas in the 2016 death of his mother on a boat that had sparked a civil legal saga, federal prosecutors announced. Nathan Carman was arrested Tuesday on an eight-count indictment, according to officials at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont. The document also charges...

Rescuers from the Coast Guard station on Cape Cod saved four injured people on Sunday from a sailing ship that was severely damaged by a rogue wave and was contending with heavy seas.