LOS ANGELES (AP) — Strapped into a harness, Josh Law was lowered from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter into the rough Pacific Ocean in the pitch black night, far off the Mexican coast.

Coast Guard investigators will interview the crew of a commercial vessel near Houston as part of an ongoing investigation ...

Maritime Reporter & Engineering News was offered the opportunity to interview Admiral Karl Schultz, the 26th Commandant in the history of the United States Coast Guard, in his office in Washington, DC ...

Unless something changes fast, the Coast Guard won't be able to send life-saving helicopters into action. Trouble with the U.S. Coast Guard’s emblematic fleet of 135 lifesaving, smuggler-hunting and ...