The Coast Guard festival, which honors men and women serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, brings popular attractions like a parade, carnival, concerts and fireworks to the small West Michigan town. The festival will resume July 30-Aug. 8, 2021.

After three people went out on an inflatable raft recently in Long Island Sound and couldn’t paddle back to shore due to high winds and strong sea currents, the Coast Guard used GPS data from their cellphones to pinpoint their location and bring them home safely.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced this week it will begin the process to transfer to another entity control of Light Station Boston, which is 304-years old and considered the oldest staffed lighthouse in country.

The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City announced Tuesday that it is planning to fly its three MH-60T helicopters over Traverse City, Munson Hospital and the surrounding areas on Friday, May 15 beginning at 2 p.m

The Diligence, which has been moored at the foot of Princess Street for more than 25 years, will leave downtown Wilmington by the end of May, a spokesman for the USCG confirmed Tuesday.

The USS Philippine Sea, a guided-missile cruiser, spilled the diesel fuel into the York River on Thursday morning, news outlets reported.

Because of where the vessel was grounded, officials realized a boat crew couldn’t handle the rescue. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Atlantic City responded to assist.

In this review episode, Military Matters podcast hosts Rod Rodriguez and Desmon Farris talk some more with one of last week's guests, retired Air Force Command Chief Master Sgt. Juan Lewis — also known as the Fired Up Chief — about how his recovery from COVID-19 is coming along.

Onyx, a 13-year-old black Labrador retriever, received a shiny new pin — a gold anchor with a gold star — denoting her advancement to senior chief petty “pawfficer” for her service as a station mascot and morale dog.

As people across the country have fired up their 3D printers to make face masks in response to the shortage of N95 masks worn by health care workers, the Coast Guard Academy’s engineering department has begun a mission to find the best designs.

During a typical Coast Guard graduation period in Cape May, the area buzzes with families, friends and graduates moving about the seaside city’s beaches, restaurants and sights. Many of them are from out-of-state. Not this year.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world indoors with no clear end in sight. Military Matters podcast hosts Rod Rodriguez and Desmon Farris talk to two mental health clinicians, both veterans, about how the isolation and uncertainty have impacted the mental health of veterans and service members across the country.

The Coast Guard appears to have had a close call, but that’s all, with the coronavirus on the Honolulu-based cutter Midgett.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alder isn’t primarily used for supplies, but its crew shared an awesome time lapse video of the 225-foot vessel traveling through the Soo Locks on Wednesday, April 8.

Sick crew members from two cruise ships are being evacuated to the U.S. Coast Guard station at PortMiami on Thursday.

The U.S. Coast Guard Band announced that it is uploading videos to its virtual concert hall on YouTube as of March 22, featuring content such as performance footage, educational resources and tutorials.

In this special episode of Military Matters, hosts Rod Rodriguez and Desmon Farris shed light on the coronavirus that is causing major upheaval around the globe.

Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Bondira, stationed at US Coast Guard Air Station Detroit, was presented with an Air Medal for his actions during Hurricane Florence rescues from Sept. 14-18, 2018, including emergency lifesaving efforts.

Each month, 4,000 vessels come into American ports, and with confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S., the Coast Guard is "scrubbing the lists of crew members to understand where their last ports were, where they may have had some contact," Adm. Karl L. Schultz said Wednesday night.

In this week’s episode of Military Matters, hosts Desmon Farris and Rod Rodriguez take a look at influencers among the military community and the opportunities and pitfalls that can await them.

The Stone is named for Coast Guard officer Cmdr. Elmer “Archie” Fowler Stone, who made history in 1919 as one of two Coast Guard pilots who successfully made the first transatlantic flight in a Navy seaplane.

Much of the event was typical of a U.S. Coast Guard advancement ceremony, with everyone standing at attention as the honorees received their pins. But the brand-new petty officers third class at Station Marquette also got a special bonus: Plenty of dog treats.

The crew from Air Station Detroit responded to the scene after receiving a call of a Canadian national who had fallen through the ice between Detroit and Ontario on Sunday night.

Construction has begun on the environmental protection barrier that will surround the shipwrecked Golden Ray during the planned process to remove it from the St. Simons Sound, according to Unified Command.

The Coast Guard is facing growing operational requirements — patrolling a changing Arctic, taking on transnational crime, helping to stabilize the Arabian gulf — but federal budgets have not reflected many of the service's defense contributions, Adm. Karl Schultz said Thursday.

After netting to trap pollutants and debris is erected on the piles surrounding the vessel, the complicated process to remove the capsized Golden Ray will begin.

It is longstanding tradition for Navy ships to visit Mobile during Mardi Gras, with uniformed sailors joining the civilian crowds at parades and other festivities.

The MV Alta landed ashore amid a burst of violent, stormy weather, wedging itself onto a rocky outcropping and perplexing locals and authorities in Cork, Ireland.

A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling guns and targeting Supreme Court justices, prominent Democrats and TV journalists is appealing his prison sentence of more than 13 years.

It is the 37th of 56 Fast Response Cutters delivered under a contract that started in 2008. Each cutter costs about $65 million, and the entire program will cost the Coast Guard more than $3.7 billion.

As Puerto Rico is struggling to recover from hurricanes and earthquakes, the White House confirmed on Friday that it’s appointing U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Peter Brown as its liaison for the island.

Former lieutenant Christopher Hasson, 50, was indicted last year and pleaded guilty to firearms and drug charges. Authorities said he intended to embark on a murderous rampage targeting liberal politicians on Capitol Hill and prominent on-air hosts of cable news programs.

Forty years ago, the Coast Guard suffered the worst peacetime tragedy in its history when the Cutter Blackthorn collided with a passing 605-foot oil tanker in the waters of Tampa Bay.

The rescue occurred at 1 a.m. on Jan. 1 when Air Station Traverse City received a call that a man had fallen though ice while riding his snowmobile in Lewiston.

On Sept. 26, 1918 the USS Tampa was struck by a German torpedo while sailing through the Bristol Channel, killing all 130 crewmembers, including 25-year-old Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident Francis Joseph Taylor.

The U.S. Coast Guard had located the body of a 46-year-old man from Naples who went overboard the Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas.

Rear Adm. Peter Brown, President Donald Trump’s third homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, is being moved out of his role after about six months, said four people familiar with the issue.

The National Coast Guard Museum Association has raised more than $56 million for a national museum on the downtown New London waterfront to tell the story of the Coast Guard and has plans to launch a new committee in the spring to help raise remaining funds.

Looking back at the inaugural episode of the Military Matters podcast, hosts Desmon Farris and Rod Rodriguez discuss ongoing research into cannabis, misconceptions that persist about the controversial plant, and the its potential medical and addiction complications.

Three fishermen were rescued Tuesday night after the U.S. Coast Guard found their boat capsized near Coos Bay, Oregon. The 38-foot Pacific Miner was spotted by an aircrew Tuesday evening.

Dustin A. Peters came to the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May to attend a graduation ceremony Thursday when Coast Guard security personnel discovered an illegal assault weapon and numerous high capacity magazines in his vehicle.

A Coast Guard helicopter crew hoisted a possible stroke victim from a cruise ship off the Mexican coast and flew her to a San Diego hospital Wednesday, officials said.

A Mobile, Ala.-based U.S. Coast Guard helicopter pilot was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, one of the country’s highest military honors, during a ceremony in New Orleans Friday.

As a combat veteran and a retired, award-winning TV news and sports camera operator, George Larsen told good stories. An old one recounted how he first thought it was an earthquake that rattled him awake in Hawaii on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.

After the Conception fire, the Coast Guard for the first time recommended that owners of passenger vessels immediately urge crews “to reduce potential fire hazards and consider limiting the unsupervised charging of lithium-ion batteries and extensive use of power strips and extension cords.”

A Coast Guard helicopter crew came to the rescue of stranded fishermen, and a camera captured the dramatic moments off the North Carolina shore.

The U.S. military’s top enlisted service member unveiled a new, distinctive rank insignia specifically for the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an insignia that he will wear for his last week on the job.

After nearly 80 years in the dark, happenstance brought the Coast Guard flag back into service, this time as a link between one ship’s history and its service today.

A kite surfer believed to be missing off the coast of Ocean City actually made it out of the water safe after experiencing minor equipment trouble and had no idea authorities were searching for him along the Jersey Shore, the Coast Guard announced Friday afternoon.

The Cold War fallout bunker built by the U.S. Navy in 1961 for President John F. Kennedy today remains closed to the public. The Peanut Island shelter and nearby historical Coast Guard station and house, which were closed to public tours in October 2017, are showing the signs of abandonment.

A good Samaritan recovered a severed limb floating in the water off Palm Beach Island Thursday, and handed it over to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw loaded up about 1,200 trees from Dutchman Tree Farm in Manton and Thompson Township in the Upper Peninsula this week and will take them to Chicago.

Thirteen people trying to illegally migrate from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico were spotted adrift Monday and intercepted near Desecheo Island, a tiny, uninhabited island about 13 miles west of Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

It could take a year or more to remove the Golden Ray, a 656-foot cargo ship lying on its side off the coast of the Golden Isles, according to Coast Guard Cmdr. Matt Baer.

A Coast Guard seaman accused of murder was released from a San Diego brig Monday as the admiral overseeing his prosecution ordered a new hearing in the case.

As a hearing to learn details of the deadly Conception dive boat fire approaches, members of California's congressional delegation say it's time for the Coast Guard to consider stronger protections.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Vincent Danz was a New York City police officer in the Bronx, and Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey Palazzo was a New York City firefighter. They were among many first responders who lost their lives on 9/11.

If you’re a U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer and are looking to do a fun training exercise that also serves as team-building, what do you pick? How about jumping out of a helicopter into Lake St. Clair about 1.5 miles out, then swimming back to shore, decked out in your full gear?

A military aid society has established an award to honor Lt. Thomas "Jimmy" Crotty, a South Buffalo native whose remains came back to Western New York this week.

The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard intends to be in Buffalo for Saturday's funeral Mass and burial of Lt. Thomas "Jimmy" Crotty, a World War II legend whose remains are expected to return this week to his hometown.

Lt. Thomas Crotty, 30, died July 19, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp in the Philippines after being captured with the fall of Corregidor earlier that year.

Ten different U.S. Coast Guard cutters combined for a series of 18 drug busts and seizures in international waters of the Caribbean Basin and the Eastern Pacific Ocean — off Mexico and Central and South America.

A Coast Guard search is underway for a 26-year-old Carnival cruise passenger who went overboard Thursday evening. The passenger dropped from the Carnival Dream ship hours after it left Galveston, Texas, for a four-day cruise, Carnival told the New York Daily News in a statement.

Coast Guard is “doubling down on Oceania” amid China's "coercive tactics," said Adm. Karl Schultz.

Seaman Ethan W. Tucker was arrested Aug. 28 after a seven-month Coast Guard investigation into the January death of Seaman Ethan Kelch, who served on the same ship as Tucker — the Kodiak, Alaska-based high endurance cutter Douglas Munro.

The Coast Guard offloaded more than 6,800 pounds of cocaine — worth an estimated $92 million — in San Diego on Wednesday, contraband that the military branch seized in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

During Maritime Training Activity Sama Sama, nations will practice shore and sea capabilities, including force protection, explosive ordnance disposal and anti-air, surface warfare and vessel-of-interest tracking.

James Michael Wells, who was a U.S. Coast Guard civilian technician stationed in Alaska at the time of the crime, was previously convicted in the 2012 shootings but had his case reversed on appeal.

The U.S. Coast Guard is looking further into a distress call Saturday purportedly from from a missing boater and three children off the coast of Kennebunkport, Maine, including the possibility the call was a hoax.

Body art and tattoos that are consistent with the Coast Guards values will now be allowed on the chest, but not visible above the uniform crew neck shirt. Hand and finger tattoos — in addition to one ring tattoo per hand — are also now allowed.

Lt. Christopher P. Hasson, who authorities say planned to “murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” was not charged with any terrorist-related counts.

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter returned to port Friday after offloading nearly $174 million worth of cocaine the Coast Guard seized in operations off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America, according to the Coast Guard.

The US Coast Guard rescued three people and a chihuahua from a sailboat 35 miles adrift off Klamath, California, on Wednesday.

Local, state, federal and military agencies in Virginia team up with industry and spill-management contractors to work out what to do in a simulation organized by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Coast Guard officials are asking for the public’s help to identify a person who is broadcasting threats and fake calls for help.

Officials have been looking for surviving relatives of the 111 Coast Guard and four Navy crewmembers who perished aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa for the past two decades. They’ve found nearly half of them.

Seaman Ethan W. Tucker is accused of killing Seaman Ethan Kelch in January by hitting him over the head and leaving him to die on an Alaska shore, according to information released Thursday by the service.

The Pentagon approved a two-year grant of nearly $10 million for the second stage of the study's research, which will follow cadets and student-athletes for up to four years after graduation.

With hundreds of new Coast Guard Academy cadets starting their military training, staff at the medical clinic on campus have had their hands full during the summer months. That was magnified two weeks ago, when a bacterial infection began spreading among the cadets.

The U.S. Coast Guard will hold a dual-commissioning ceremony for two Legend-class national security cutters Saturday at U.S. Coast Guard Base Honolulu.

The U.S. Coast Guard will suspend at sundown a massive search for two firefighters who disappeared during a fishing trip off the coast of Florida, officials said at a Thursday news conference.

Local, state and federal officials, along with volunteers, continued a massive search Wednesday for two off-duty firefighters who went missing Friday during a fishing trip off Port Canaveral.

Brian McCluney, a Navy veteran and Jacksonville firefighter, and Justin Walker, a Virginia firefighter, have been missing since Friday. Led by the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast, the air and water search has covered 50,000 square miles.

Boaters Brian McCluney and Justin Walker launched from the 300 Christopher Columbus boat ramp in Jacksonville near Port Canaveral Friday. They were in a 24-foot center console heading toward “8A” reef on a fishing trip. The two men haven’t been seen since, the Coast Guard’s command center in Jacksonville said.

The new Coast Guard national security cutter Midgett, which arrived at its new homeport of Honolulu on Friday, has chalked up a second major drug bust — even before it is officially commissioned into service.

The United States spends $2 billion a day on the most advanced military ever assembled, with more aircraft carriers, fighter planes and nuclear submarines than any other nation — but every time the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star makes the 11,500-mile journey to Antarctica, it falls apart.

Chief Warrant Officer J.L. Horne was permanently relieved as the commanding officer of the cutter Marcus Hanna.

According to the Navy, the USS Serpens blew up Jan. 29, 1945 during the accidental mishandling of bombs, torpedoes and depth charges. But the son of a crew member isn't buying it.

Nine months after Hurricane Michael destroyed 85 percent of the Coast Guard's Panama City base, officials have announced plans to commit $46.7 million to rebuild the facility.

A boat named Bada Bing was cruising near Hollywood on Tuesday, when for some reason — maybe it was the catchy name — it caught the attention of the U.S. Coast Guard

Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Kimberly Young-McLear, who spent years reporting bullying and harassing behaviors by her superiors, and later faced retaliation for making those complaints, is finally speaking publicly about what happened to her.

Siding with the United States in the global power competition in the Indo-Pacific region means receiving a used Coast Guard cutter, said Adm. Karl Schultz.

The Coast Guard is searching for Baruch Roberts, 79, from Thomaston, Maine, whose empty kayak was found Monday in Muscongus Bay.

In a speech aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Munro ported at Naval Air Station North Island, Vice President Mike Pence told members of the Coast Guard that their work was pivotal to saving American lives.