Coast Guard

An on-board fire Tuesday night disabled the vessel amidst 50 mph winds and 30-foot waves south of Nova Scotia.

A man has been charged with making a false distress call to the U.S. Coast Guard in Maine that resulted in a more than five-hour search by boat and helicopter. Nathan Libby, 31, of Rockland, was charged with making the fake call Dec. 3 via VHF-FM radio channel 16, the U.S attorney’s office said in a news release Friday. Libby…

The owner of a Maine boat carrying four fishermen that sank off Cape Cod last fall has asked a court to declare it is not at fault. The owner of the 82-foot Emmy Rose wants a Maine federal court judge to declare that it is not liable for damages in the sinking. The owner, Boat Aaron and Melissa Inc., said…

The United States Coast Guard pulled into Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with $400 million worth of cocaine and marijuana. The drugs were confiscated in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

A fishing vessel that became stranded off the coast of Massachusetts last Sunday has been towed to safety after a five-day operation, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Saturday. The fishing vessel Fearless was 160 nautical miles east of Nantucket on Sunday night when it became disabled and called for help. Winds were more than 20 miles per hour at the…

An investigation into what caused a fishing boat carrying four Maine fishermen to sink off Cape Cod will likely take weeks or months, the Coast Guard said Friday. The boat sank off Provincetown on Monday when it was en route to Gloucester, Massachusetts. Members of the Maine fishing community have been raising money for the families of the men lost…

The Emmy Rose, based in Portland, Maine, sank off Provincetown on Monday when it was en route to Gloucester, Massachusetts.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Tuesday evening for four missing fishermen whose boat, the Emmy Rose, sank a day earlier off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts. In a tweet Tuesday morning, the Coast Guard said crews had searched throughout the night for the fishermen, who are all believed to be from Maine. The 82-foot boat’s home port...

For a second straight day, the Coast Guard is searching off Cape Cod for four fishermen from Maine after their boat sank.

The U.S. Coast Guard continued its search off the Massachusetts coast for four missing fishermen.

The United States Coast Guard spent Monday searching for four Maine fishermen after the vessel they were aboard sank off the Massachusetts coast on Monday. The Coast Guard said the 82-foot fishing vessel, Emmy Rose, sank at about 1 a.m. some 20 miles off Provincetown. When the Coast Guard First District Command Center in Boston received an alert from the…

The United States Coast Guard continues to search for a boat with four fishermen off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Authorities have identified the two service members who were killed when their plane crashed in a residential Alabama neighborhood.

Local first responders were headed to the Gulf Coast Thursday to assist in the response to Hurricane Laura. FEMA Task Force 1, composed of 45 people out of Beverly, was headed to the region to assist with water rescues. They will join members of the Coast Guard station on Cape Cod who were sent to the region Tuesday to rescue…

Homes and businesses were destroyed when Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana.

Local first responders were headed to the Gulf Coast Thursday to assist in the response to Hurricane Laura.

Coast Guard crews began to offload over 28,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana Thursday morning at a South Florida port. Officials say the drugs, worth more than $228 million in street value, were offloaded at Port Everglades after the cutter Hamilton arrived before 8 a.m. The drugs were captured during several interdictions in both the Caribbean Sea and the eastern…

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.