The spill left two sheens on the bay, including one just over a mile long by 40 yards wide on San Pablo Bay, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A second sheen was later spotted near the Phillips 66 Rodeo refinery marine terminal.

The loss of a Coast Guard contract to a competing shipyard is renewing concerns about Bath Iron Works’ dependence on the Navy and begging the question for one of Maine’s largest private employers: What’s next?

One of the largest Coast Guard air stations in the nation is working with historically black Elizabeth City State University to step up the number of minorities joining the service.

During the initial phase of the contract, Eastern Shipbuilding of Panama City, Florida, will construct nine cutters with the potential to build 25 over the long term.

A Coast Guard cadet has been sentenced to a year in prison for sexual assault and dismissed from the service after being found guilty at a court-martial.

Bath Iron Works has lost out on an estimated $10.5 billion contract to build a new generation of cutters for the Coast Guard, in a major blow for the Maine shipyard that could cost as many as 1,000 jobs.

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When thinking about military forces operating throughout the Middle East, the U.S. Coast Guard — known by most for its operations around the U.S. — probably doesn’t jump to mind.

The cadets are suspended from the corps of cadets following a recommendation by the academy superintendent while their sexual assault cases go through the judicial process.

In the days and weeks after her son's death, Suzanne Sheaffer, who lives in Harrisburg, Penn., about 400 miles away from where her son was stationed, realized there was a void in the Coast Guard’s long-term support for survivors.

The Navy destroyer USS Bulkeley contacted the Coast Guard that a sailor aboard was suffering from symptoms suggestive of acute appendicitis.

A Coast Guard law enforcement team from a cutter boarded the vessel and discovered an injured person who later died, according to the news release. The person's cause of death is under investigation.

On the 96th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote, and 40 years after military service academies were first opened to women, one of the first women to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy told a room filled with mostly female cadets: "It's your Coast Guard now. Speak up."

The U.S. Coast Guard says two stranded mariners were rescued Friday after crews saw their "SOS" in the sand on an uninhabited island in Micronesia, Hawaii News Now reports.

Randy Mitchell Wilson was sentenced for making false statements to NCIS agents and misleading Coast Guard agents about the mismanagement of government funds. He was director of manufacturing services at the shipbuilding company in Pascagoula.

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Coast Guard crews have rescued 243 people, 71 pets and assisted 3,008 people who were in distress as a result of flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The academy's accreditation is now at risk — a first for a federal service school — and it is under growing scrutiny from Congress, its advisory board and the inspector general's office at the Department of Transportation, its parent agency.

A Boca Raton, Fla. financial adviser and Navy veteran who faked his death last year, setting off an expensive and pointless U.S. Coast Guard rescue mission, pleaded guilty on Monday to communicating a false distress message.

At 8:21 a.m. today, watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Hampton Roads received a call from distressed boaters saying their boat was taking on water and sinking about six miles southwest of Cape Charles.

As naval battles go, the war of words between the U.S. Coast Guard and the captain of the world's largest Viking longship was a bit of a tempest in a teapot.

A problem in the engine room led to flooding on board a fishing boat off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, forcing the crew to abandon ship, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.

The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking the public's help to find someone who has been broadcasting false 'mayday' distress calls over marine radio for the past two years.

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A distressed dolphin landed in a boat near Back Bay in Florida and the Coast Guard was called for help.

The applied research and development project, called Global AIS on Space Station, will enable ships to be tracked farther from shore, ideally providing a more precise map of global maritime operations.

The efforts to get the Draken, the world's largest Viking ship, to Tall Ships Duluth 2016 and similar events in Green Bay, Wis., and Chicago will come down to raising about $400,000 to cover pilot fees.

The Coast Guard has rescued five people from a boat that was starting to sink off the coast of Delaware.

A small wooden boat landed on a Broward County beach Saturday in a chaotic arrival that included the firing of Tasers and pepper balls. The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection tried to stop the vessel off shore.

Arrive hungry, leave stuffed and help a good cause is the game plan at the USO-hosted Military Chef Cook-Off, part of the annual Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle this weekend.

The Coast Guard and a Navy helicopter squadron assisted in the rescue of two fishermen 13 miles northwest of the North Marianas island of Tinian, the Navy said Sunday.

By 2018, the DoD will have 133 operational teams under Cyber Command to protect the interwoven web of critical computer networks. Cyber Guard is where they come to prepare for the fight ahead, said U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Kevin Lunday, the U.S. Cyber Command's director of exercises and training.

Roughly 21 tons of cocaine seized off the coast of Central and South America were unloaded in San Diego Monday, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.

Twenty-three people, including more than a dozen school-aged children who were on a field trip researching wildlife, were rescued Wednesday evening from a sinking boat in a remote part of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.

The conservation mission is the largest single transport of marine life by the Coast Guard in recent years.

It likely will be months before the National Transportation Safety Board can retrieve the voyage data recorder from the cargo ship El Faro, which sank last fall about 40 miles northeast of the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin and claimed the lives of 33, including two with Hampton Roads ties.

After only two days of an endurance running feat that would have taken him past the Bahamas, Haiti and Cuba afloat in a handcrafted bubble, ultra marathoner Ray "Reza" Baluchi has ended his trek on the advice of authorities.

J.C. Cobb was asleep. It was just after 5 a.m. on Nov. 1, 1979, and Cobb was about to start his last watch as a member of the United States Coast Guard.

The 2016 Arctic Eagle exercise is under way at Camp Grayling, where a late-season storm dropped temperatures below zero and dumped six-plus inches of snow in the area.

Activity at the Frankfort U.S. Coast Guard station will subside in the fall as the military branch redistributes its Great Lakes team.

A one-time "Queen of the Fleet" for the U.S. Coast Guard may find a permanent home in the Twin Ports, if a local fundraising effort is successful.

U.S. Coast Guard officials say SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing in Cape Canaveral did not request boat coverage for a launch Sunday, meaning response to a vessel thought to be in a restricted area might have taken longer than normal.

The El Faro sank just before it was to be added to a Coast Guard list of vessels identified as having the most "potential for risk," a designation that would have triggered more safety inspections.

On the day the Coast Guard called off the search for the El Faro’s crew, Deb Roberts wrote a note to her son and put it in a bottle to be taken to the last known location of the missing cargo ship.

A Coast Guard member who served on the Portsmouth-based cutter Northland will spend six months in the Naval Consolidated Brig in Chesapeake after pleading guilty to charges that he attempted to film two women serving on the same vessel without their knowledge.

The Coast Guard will begin holding hearings Tuesday to determine why the cargo ship El Faro sank near Bermuda during Hurricane Joaquin, killing all 33 crew members.

Forty-two people who abandoned their fishing vessel after it caught fire 1,800 miles south of Hawaii have returned to the ship with help from the Hawaii Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard is searching for 40 people who abandoned a 258-foot fishing vessel that caught fire Wednesday about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii.

Government officials on Wednesday told a congressional subcommittee that the Coast Guard needs better oversight of its testing and contracting policies after a federal review and subsequent reporting found numerous operational deficiencies in the Coast Guard’s largest and most technologically advanced ships.

Federal agencies in the Washington area will open Wednesday on a three-hour delay as the nation’s capital continues to deal with the aftermath of a massive winter storm that dumped up to 30 inches of snow on the region.

The Coast Guard Museum Association announced more than $4 million in pledges Thursday night including $1 million from one of its honorary co-chairs, James David Power III.

When two mariners were stranded Saturday on their 52-foot, Canadian flagged sailing vessel five miles from Westport, Washington, the crew of a U.S. Coast Gaurd MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter flew over to help.

A newly formed cyber team at the Coast Guard Academy is providing a route for cadets to deepen their knowledge of computer networks — how they work, how to secure them, and how to identify vulnerabilities within them — while also earning sports credit for their participation.

The Hawaii Coast Guard has established a seven-mile safety zone out into the sea spanning the entire North Shore of Oahu as the search for 12 missing Marines from two helicopters continued Friday afternoon.

The White House will nominate a veteran Special Operations commander to lead U.S. Central Command, underscoring the Obama administration's affinity for using secretive elite military forces in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

The National Coast Guard Museum Association is working to raise funds for the planned $100 million National Coast Guard Museum in downtown New London, Conn.

The Coast Guard is moving ahead with plans to change the way foghorns are triggered along the Maine coast.

A search was underway Thursday for a tugboat that sank over the weekend in Galveston Harbor and disappeared, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Supporters of the first national museum honoring the U.S. Coast Guard hope newly passed federal legislation will provide a financial lift to the long-awaited project planned along Connecticut's waterfront.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) announced on Wednesday some $94 million in proposed funding for the U.S. Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Md., in 2016. The Curtis Bay yard consists of 113 acres and employs some 600 military and civilian employees in Anne Arundel.

Still unsure of what exactly they are dealing with, U.S. Coast Guard-commissioned dive crews have begun removing the contents of petroleum tanks aboard the Argo, an oil barge that sank in Lake Erie in 1937 that was found leaking by divers last month.

The crew of a Coast Guard cutter homeported here seized 30,000 pounds of illegal narcotics worth more than $455 million during a 104-day deployment, when they also boarded and searched a semi-submersible used by suspected drug traffickers.

The Coast Guard offloaded 515 kilograms of cocaine - worth about $17 million - at its Miami Beach station Friday after intercepting four suspected smugglers off the coast of the Dominican Republic.

The Coast Guard dropped off more than 25 tons of cocaine in San Diego on Thursday that was seized over the past five months off the Pacific coasts of Central and South America.

U.S. Coast Guard Seaman Recruit Bruin stood for inspection Friday at Station Gloucester and he did so on four legs, all straight up and down and squared away, his nose wet and his coat shiny. What more could you ask from the 8-month old black Labrador retriever?

William Carr, along with retired Capt. Ernie Cummings, a 1963 Coast Guard Academy graduate who served as commanding officer of the Eagle, and Jim Loomis, a 1965 Officer Candidate School grad, shared stories of their wartime service in a program commemorating Veterans Day.

Coast Guard Academy veterans share stories of their wartime service in a program commemorating Veterans Day.

A submarinelike object was spotted about 150 yards off the coast of Highland Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last week and washed ashore Thursday, officials said. The U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of Homeland Security and some local agencies are trying to figure out what it is.

Operation Homefront, the national nonprofit dedicated to building strong, stable and secure military families, is accepting nominations through Dec. 11 for the 2016 Military Child of the Year.

When the cargo ship El Faro vanished with its 33 crewmen off the Bahamas, sailors around the world — bound by their complex relationship with a sea that they can love, hate or fear depending on the weather — felt their hearts crack.

El Faro left Jacksonville for Puerto Rico on Sept. 29 with a crew of 33. All four Mainers on the ship are graduates of Maine Maritime Academy in Castine. “Our community will grieve this together,” William J. Brennan, president of the school, said after Wednesday’s announcement that the search effort was terminated.

Crew members trained regularly in calm waters to handle the lifeboats would instead likely have struggled against buffeting by huge 50-foot waves, a vessel taking on water and listing to one side and winds the Coast Guard estimated reached 140 mph. Life rafts can get torn apart. Lifeboats become impossible to drop into the sea.