A crew from Coast Guard Station Mayport near Jacksonville, Fla., rescued five boaters Sunday after their vessel capsized.

As Tropical Storm Beryl closes in on Texas, a search is underway for two people missing after a boat crashed near Galveston, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A body was found Saturday, but officials have not confirmed whether it is one of the missing boaters.

Nearly 70 Coast Guard veterans on Tuesday called on senators investigating the service’s sexual-assault scandal to force all Coast Guard leaders involved in the service’s internal investigation to testify in Congress about the yearslong cover-up.

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s class of 2028 reported for duty July 1, 2024, beginning their 200-week training working towards being commissioned as an officer.

The U.S. Coast Guard led a first-of-its-kind exercise in environmental disaster cleanup recently near Saipan alongside local and federal agencies, the service announced Tuesday. 

Three mariners were left adrift in the dark when their vessel sank in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. Rescuers from the U.S. Coast Guard station in St. Petersburg arrived in time.

The Coast Guard is slated to continue solidifying its Pacific footprint with new funds from Congress as the service plays an increasingly prominent role in Washington’s regional strategy.

Four off-duty Coast Guard members helped rescue a distressed swimmer last week at a lake secluded in a South Jersey township.

The Key Bridge, knocked down after a cargo ship smashed into a support pier, wasn’t built with 100,000-ton ships in mind and was ill-prepared for vessel strike. It prompted a National Transportation Safety Board investigation into what went wrong and a Coast Guard probe into national port infrastructure.

Wednesday marked three months since the container ship Dali knocked down the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The collapse killed six construction workers, partially blocked Baltimore’s shipping channel until June and eliminated one of three harbor crossings in the city, slowing vehicular traffic.