Coast Guard

A woman has died in what authorities in Maine are describing as an apparent shark attack Monday near Bailey Island.

A boat caught fire near graves light off Boston, according to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard cutter, a helicopter and a boat are responding to a call about the fire, which came in just before 6:30 a.m. The Boston Fire Marine unit is also responding. No further information was immediately available.

According to the Coast Guard, the missing man was found unresponsive shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday, about 12 hours after his 17-foot boat overturned.

Coast Guard officials say the 55-year-old man did not have a life jacket on when the 17-foot boat overturned.

The U.S. Coast Guard is tapping into cellphone location data to quickly locate distressed boaters.

The U.S. Coast Guard has directed all cruise ships to prepare to treat any sick passengers and crew on board while being sequestered “indefinitely” offshore during the coronavirus pandemic

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf unloaded 18,000 pounds of cocaine in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego Wednesday morning.

A congressional investigation released Wednesday has found that the U.S. Coast Guard’s leadership has failed to conduct prompt, thorough and impartial investigations of harassment and bullying allegations. It concludes that the service needs to make “significant improvements” in its policies and procedures to address harassment and bullying. Congress launched the 18-month investigation after questions were raised about how complaints were...

The White House was locked down and fighter jets were mobilized after an airspace violation in Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning, according to law enforcement officials.

The United States Coast Guard has suspended its search for three missing fishermen after a commercial fishing vessel capsized Sunday about 24 miles southwest of Martha’s Vineyard. Crews had been searching for the missing men after receiving an alert from an emergency locating device on the vessel at 3:18 p.m. Sunday. The vessel was identified as the Leonardo, a 57-foot...

A large fishing ship ran aground on a remote Pacific atoll early Thursday, and the U.S. Coast Guard said it was helping coordinate the rescue of its 24 crew members. The 308-foot (94-meter) Chinese-flagged Ou Ya Leng No. 6 ran aground on uninhabited Taka Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew West said. He said a Coast...

President Trump lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amid the ongoing government shutdown and more troubling revelations about the 2016 election. NBC’s Tracie Potts reports.

A Massachusetts Coast Guard family is one of many being impacted financially by the partial government shutdown.

Rescue crews have found one fisherman and are searching for three more from a boat that apparently sank off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, authorities said. Air Station Cape Cod received a distress signal Sunday from a boat that capsized and sank, according to the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard is searching for three sailors reported missing off Maine’s Mount Desert Island. The Coast Guard tweeted Saturday that the three were reportedly on a 40-foot sailboat, named Dove, about 20 miles south of Mount Desert Island. The missing have been identified as Charlotte Kirby, Nathaniel Davis and Wilfredo Lombardo.

A Vermont man at the center of an inheritance dispute contributed to the 2016 sinking of the boat from which his mother was lost at sea, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a written decision in favor of an insurance company that had refused to pay an $85,000 claim to Nathan Carman for the loss...

A search-and-rescue plane found the boat 100 miles off the coast of Virginia on Monday

The Coast Guard has launched a search for a missing boater who left Rhode Island on Wednesday bound for Miami. Coast Guard officials say 40-year-old Ryan Hollis left Jamestown in a 43-foot Beneteau sailing boat, the Carol K.