A staggering 1,015 American soldiers lost their lives in the HMT Rohna incident, making it the deadliest encounter at sea in the history of the U.S. military. But the U.S. War Department swore the nearly 700 survivors to secrecy under threat of court-martial, leaving the disaster all but unknown to the public for more than 50 years.

The Coast Guard’s importance in strengthening global economic, trade and environmental security, especially amid a tumultuous year of extreme weather events and the coronavirus pandemic, took center stage in President Joe Biden’s commencement address Wednesday at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

When his family moved to a different neighborhood, a high school senior came up with a creative way to keep attending his school near Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam without navigating Honolulu's terrible traffic.

A Coast Guard cutter's voyage to Guam, expected to take about 70 days, has already featured dolphins, grey whales and a sea turtle rescue.

The USCGC Maui fired about 30 warning shots Monday when 13 vessels of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps came too close to the U.S. ships and "conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers."

A Coast Guard cutter with an historic tie to 9/11 may be headed to Indonesia, but a former crew member wants it preserved as a memorial to the terrorist attacks in New York City.

Decision Day has grown into an opportunity to celebrate life choices, be they college, technical school, the world of work or joining the military.

Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, said he won’t sacrifice capability and readiness in exchange for a larger fleet.

The 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter Frederick Hatch is expected to arrive at the U.S. island territory in early July. It will join two similar cutters — Myrtle Hazard and Oliver Henry — that arrived there in the latter half of 2020.