A proposed 5 percent raise in Coast Guard discretionary funding in fiscal 2026 hangs in the balance amid a congressional fight over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Last week, the ...

Argus (WMSM-915), the first ship of the heritage class of medium endurance offshore patrol cutters, enters the water during a christening ceremony in Panama City, Fla., Oct. 27, 2023. US Coast Guard ...

Adm. Kevin Lunday, the 28th commandant of the Coast Guard, speaks after he was sworn in at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington on Thursday. (PO2 Gabriel Wisdom/U.S. Coast Guard) Adm. Kevin Lunday ...

A reinvigorated U.S. Coast Guard is making the Western Hemisphere a "no-go Zone" for dangerous "Dark Fleet tankers. After facilitating the seizure of two more “dark fleet” oil tankers this week, U.S.

The effort, which lasted four days, is the most extensive one conducted by the U.S. since it began attacks on alleged drug ships in September. By Nicholas Slayton Published Jan 2, 2026 3:32 PM EST The ...

The service said that conditions in the area where the search was taking place included nine-foot seas and winds approaching 50 miles per hour. By Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washington The Coast ...

Shipyards in Louisiana and Finland will jointly build six new Arctic Security Cutter icebreakers, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday. Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, La., and Rauma Marine ...

WASHINGTON/LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard is waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it has been ...

Trump’s pressure on Venezuelan President Maduro mounted Sunday as the Coast Guard went after another oil tanker that U.S. officials accused of helping Venezuela circumvent sanctions. Last week, Trump ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Saturday confirmed that the United States Coast Guard“apprehended” an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. “In a pre-dawn action early this morning on Dec.

References in U.S. Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols “potentially divisive" were removed Thursday, and a U.S. senator said she was lifting a hold she had placed on a nomination for the service's ...

Washington — The Senate confirmed Admiral Kevin Lunday as Coast Guard commandant Thursday night after agency guidance on the display of hate symbols such as swastikas and nooses was clarified.