The Navy is planning major upgrades at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and its three other public yards involving billions of dollars, as the service seeks to address chronic maintenance problems that have hampered its readiness to fight.

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The first 100 years of Naval Station Norfolk have witnessed name changes, reorganizations and technological advancements in aviation and sea power. Social forces in the larger community also transformed the military and the faces of sailors and airmen here. As the naval station has grown, at times painfully, so has the community.

The Navy is disciplining nine sailors for their roles in a 94,000-gallon fuel spill that killed nearby wildlife, prompted families to temporarily leave their homes and cost the service $3.8 million to date, an official said Friday.

Citing the threat from North Korea, a Japanese mayor says he supports a bilateral agreement that will relocate the bulk of a Navy carrier air wing to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, an Iwakuni City official said Friday.

Rear Adm. Brian Fort will lead a Navy investigation into the collision that killed seven USS Fitzgerald sailors off the Japanese coast, a 7th Fleet statement said Friday.

The future USS John F. Kennedy added 932 metric tons to its fighting weight Thursday as Newport News Shipbuilding marked a construction milestone for the next-generation aircraft carrier.

A federal appeals court says members of the U.S. Navy can pursue their lawsuit in a U.S. court alleging radiation exposure from Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Retired Navy Adm. James Stavridis, who was once the captain of the Fitzgerald's sister ship, the USS Barry, said in an email that as a general rule, a watertight door to a flooded area would never be sealed without "knowing that all of your shipmates had escaped." However, he said there are specific exceptions.

Japanese transport safety officials said they obtained the voyage data recorder, similar to an airplane's "black box," from the Philippine-flagged ACX Crystal, which is currently docked in Yokohama near Tokyo.

Clinton Suggs, a former U.S. Navy diver who made news in 1985 after he was held captive and abused by terrorists who hijacked an airline flight, died earlier this month. He was 61.

A number of groups across U.S. bases in Japan have stepped up to assist sailors from the USS Fitzgerald after seven of the ship’s crew members were killed last weekend in a collision off the Japanese coast.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey has left a South Korean island after making a port visit to complete “required maintenance” and won’t participate in upcoming joint war games, a Navy spokesman said Wednesday.

James Stavridis, a retired four-star admiral and the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, believes that several factors led to the collision between a container ship at the USS Fitzgerald — and that these factors could result in possible punishment for the captain of the Navy vessel.

With the commissioning, it will become the USS Gerald R. Ford. The $12.9 billion warship, the first of a new generation of aircraft carriers, was built at Newport News Shipbuilding.

The key question in the case of Keith Barry is whether the Navy’s top lawyer Vice Adm. James Crawford III and Rear Adm. Patrick Lorge illegally conspired against the SEAL.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was deployed for the past seven months in the Middle East and Mediterranean, according to a Navy news release.

The U.S. Navy says the bodies of the seven American sailors killed in a collision between their destroyer and a container ship off the Japanese coast were headed home.

Days after a fatal collision between a U.S. Navy destroyer and a merchant container ship, little information has emerged to explain how it could have happened. As the families of seven American sailors mourn their losses, here's a look at what we know, and what we don't.

The Navy has filed criminal charges against an officer in the "Fat Leonard" scandal and said the commander's name would be made public at a preliminary hearing next week in Norfolk. If the case proceeds to trial, it would mark the first time the Navy has court-martialed anyone in the scandal.

Japan's coast guard is investigating why it took nearly an hour for a deadly collision between a U.S. Navy destroyer and a container ship to be reported.

The Navy has named the seven USS Fitzgerald sailors who died after the destroyer collided with a cargo ship Saturday off the coast of Japan.

The U.S. Navy has found $500 million to buy a second Littoral Combat Ship in next year's budget after scrounging that was required because the vessel was left out of the Trump administration's proposed budget sent to Congress last month.

The U.S. Navy has found $500 million to buy a second Littoral Combat Ship in next year's budget after scrounging that was required because the vessel was left out of the Trump administration's proposed budget sent to Congress last month.

A guided-missile destroyer will make a port call to the South Korean island of Jeju on Tuesday ahead of joint maritime exercises, the Navy said, amid rising tensions with the North.

For more than a half century, a simple headstone beneath a towering shade tree in the Parkdale Cemetery has held a place for George Anderson Coke Jr.

The mother of a U.S. Navy sailor who survived a direct hit to his sleeping berth during a collision at sea said her son kept diving to try to save his shipmates until the flooded berth began running out of air pockets, while others — believing the ship was under attack — hurried to man the guns.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent a sympathy message to President Donald Trump over the fatal collision involving the USS Fitzgerald.

Lt. Commander Matthew Dominick, 35, who flies F/A-18 Super Hornets with the Naval Air Facility Atsugi-based VFA-115 Eagles, got the news during a patrol aboard the USS Ronald Reagan.

The Navy ended search-and-rescue efforts after a “number of sailors” were found dead in the aftermath of the USS Fitzgerald’s collision Saturday with a cargo ship off the Japanese coast.

Japan's Defense Ministry announced Friday that the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s largest warship, the Izumo helicopter carrier, wrapped up three days of joint drills with the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the disputed South China Sea.

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Seven sailors are missing and three more, including the commanding officer, were confirmed injured after the USS Fitzgerald collided with a merchant vessel early Saturday off the coast of Japan.

The U.S. Navy will pay Huntington Ingalls Industries $3 billion to design and build an amphibious assault ship at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service and local police have been searching for Norfolk-based sailor Gage Brady, since his family reported him missing. Brady, 20, of the USS Wasp, was last seen on Sunday when he went to meet a friend.

A dozen US Navy servicemembers are safe after billowing smoke in a naval aircraft cabin prompted an emergency landing at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport in Medford, Ore. earlier this afternoon.

The Navy is proposing to add cover material, put in place erosion control measures, add perimeter warning signs and conduct a review every five years at the industrial site.

Four pilot deaths could be tied to oxygen system failures in the cockpits of F/A-18 Hornets, the Navy revealed Thursday in an in-depth review of oxygen problems plaguing its fighter and trainer jets.

The Navy is in the early stages of preparing the design of a new frigate to replace the LCS, which, after delays and added costs, has failed to meet its promised capabilities.

Rear Adm. Gregory Fenton has taken command of Naval Forces Japan, which will be challenged with relocating six aviation units from Naval Air Station Atsugi to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni later this year.

Norfolk-based Marine Hydraulics International Inc., known as MHI, has apparently snagged two of three pending Navy ship-repair contracts that had been held up through the spring by funding uncertainties in Washington.

A missing USS Shiloh sailor presumed to have fallen overboard last week has been found alive in the ship’s engineering room, a Navy spokesman said Thursday.

The newest and costliest U.S. aircraft carrier, delivered to the Navy on May 31 with fanfare, has been dogged by trouble with fundamentals: launching jets from its deck and catching them when they land.

The Navy recently replaced a wooden fence in the sand dunes with an 8-foot-tall, stainless steel chain-link one that extends 20 feet into the ocean.

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Luckily, Marvin Wright received the high school diploma just in time for the day he needed it most. On Monday, he officially committed to entering the U.S. Navy.

NATO warships, fighters and submarines cruising over and under the Baltic Sea will conclude a major U.S.-led maritime exercise Friday, with allies training in the defense of small coastal nations nervous in the shadow of Russia.

The Suquamish Tribe and two environmental groups are suing the U.S. Navy, saying it sent harmful pollutants into Puget Sound when it cleaned a decommissioned aircraft carrier near Bremerton.

An Iranian naval patrol boat shined a laser at a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter flying over the Strait of Hormuz in what officials said was an unsafe encounter.

The report says the $11.4 billion cost estimate counts on overly optimistic reductions in labor that would be unprecedented in modern carrier construction.

Norfolk created the military liaison position in 2012, aiming to help veterans find jobs and convince more departing service members to stay in the city.

The Navy can’t uncover what is poisoning its student pilots in the cockpits of their T-45 trainer jets, despite stripping aircraft apart piece by piece, the top admiral for naval aviation told Senate lawmakers Tuesday.

Vice Adm. James Foggo has been director of Navy Staff at the Pentagon since November and was formerly commander of the Naples-based 6th Fleet.

General Atomics confirmed Monday that it has been awarded a contract for the Advanced Arresting Gear – the device that helps stop aircraft when they land on an aircraft carrier – for the future Gerald R. Ford-class carrier, the USS Enterprise.

Children of Navy personnel in Japan tried on kimonos Sunday to help raise money for earthquake and tsunami victims.

The USS Lake Erie has arrived in Sri Lanka to provide humanitarian assistance to victims of last month’s deadly floods and mudslides.

The Navy and Japan Coast Guard suspended their search at midnight Sunday for a USS Shiloh sailor who officials say likely fell overboard in the Western Pacific this past week.

The case could mark the first time a federal judge rules on the constitutionality of interrogation practices developed in recent years for terrorism suspects captured overseas.

U.S. and Japanese navy ships are searching for a USS Shiloh sailor who went overboard Friday during routine operations near Okinawa.

Members of the Normandy crew witnessed Petty Officer Christopher Clavin fall overboard about 3 p.m. Tuesday, prompting an immediate search that included the assistance of several Navy and Coast guard vessels.

Capt. Alan Dorrbecker was found guilty of multiple counts of sexual abuse and assault of a child, one count of violating orders, and of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman during a court-martial this week at Naval Station Norfolk.

The USS George H.W. Bush has moved to the eastern Mediterranean and is launching air attacks against the Islamic State, the Navy said.

The USS Jackson, a littoral, or shallow-water, combat ship, traveled from Astoria to Portland on Thursday, arriving in downtown Portland for Fleet Week.

After the Navy dropped the men-only restriction on submarine service, Lt. Kayla Barron was among the first class of 11 women from the academy to be commissioned as officers of what is called "the Silent Service."

A school at the only Navy base on the Korean Peninsula will close its doors next week after serving students for nearly 60 years.

Nearly two months after the Navy grounded its fleet of T-45 trainer jets due to cockpit oxygen problems, the aircraft have still not returned to service and the Navy is exploring alternatives, the service’s top aviation commander said Wednesday.

The incident happened Tuesday afternoon during a training mission approximately 80 nautical miles off the coast of North Carolina.

The deal confirmed by Lockheed Martin officials Monday is at least the fourth option exercised by the Navy on a contract worth up to $199 million for TB-37 multi-function towed arrays.

The Navy said the 360-foot-long Los Angeles-class submarine was on a routine visit as part of a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific.

Seven veterans of the Battle of Midway on Monday joined about 1,000 people aboard a retired U.S. Navy aircraft to mark the 75th anniversary of the turning point in World War II.

The report — 14 paragraphs long — suggested a secret U.S. intelligence coup, and became one of the biggest and potentially damaging news leaks of World War II.

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More than 1,000 members of Naval Special Warfare gathered Friday in Coronado, Calif., to honor Petty Officer 1st Class Remington Peters, who died in a parachute accident during a demonstration for Fleet Week New York.

A naval flight officer who pleaded guilty last month to violating the federal Espionage Act will serve six years in confinement.

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The Battle of Midway in June 1942 is considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific. The decisive victory wouldn't have been possible without the the Navy's code breakers, who were honored in a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the battle.

President Donald Trump says he's found a new candidate for the civilian post of Navy secretary.

The Liberty Bells of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 115 said goodbye to Japan after 44 years of service, departing Naval Air Station Atsugi for a new assignment stateside.

The Navy acknowledged Thursday that two sailors from a Virginia Beach-based ship wrongly tossed dozens of smelly plastic trash discs overboard that washed ashore last month along the Outer Banks in North Carolina.

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The ship had left Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, on March 11 and was towed around Cape Horn in South America to the Port of Brownsville.

The first of a new class of aircraft carriers has been officially delivered to the U.S. Navy after more than a year of delays, cost overruns and technological glitches that drew criticism from President Donald Trump.

The Navy wants to hire about 2,000 new shipyard workers to help make more repairs to surface warships and keep them in service longer, said Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, the Navy’s top commander for ship maintenance.

The Navy and Trump administration spent weeks arguing for a dramatic expansion of the Navy fleet, from the current 275 ships to 355. But the submitted budget leans more toward funding readiness, which includes maintenance and training.

Ship by ship, port by port, China has over the past two decades been assembling one of the essential engines of global power: a modern navy capable of projecting force far from home.

An auction of unclaimed servicemember household goods that started a social media firestorm had the military’s blessing and included items that had been abandoned for a decade or more.

The USS Ronald Reagan and USS Carl Vinson strike groups operated in formation alongside Japanese forces in waters near the Korean Peninsula Thursday, marking the largest display yet of naval power in response to North Korea’s recent ballistic missile tests.

The future USS Washington was delivered to the Navy after earning the highest Figure of Merit score to date from the Navy on any new construction Virginia-class boat, the shipyard said in a May 26 news release.

Moved by videos of soldiers surprising family members by returning home early, Savannah Cagle planned to do the same this Memorial Day weekend.

They have lost husbands, brothers and sons. Some deaths were caused by war, others by suicide, illness or accident. The only things they share in common are their grief, their loved one's military service and Samantha Blackwell.

The Carnegie Science Center on Pittsburgh's North Side will host a submarine memorial ceremony May 28 aboard the USS Requin, moored along the Ohio River.

The future USS Gerald R. Ford has successfully completed its final round of sea trials and the delivery to the Navy is up next, according to Naval Sea Systems Command.

The Buffalo was commissioned on Nov. 5, 1983, and was in service for more than 33 years. In 2002, it became the first ship to undergo nuclear refueling in Hawaii. In 2005 its dry deck shelter was used to launch an underwater glider for gathering and storing information.

The emergency is over and the Navy is shifting its focus to assessing and fixing any problems left in the wake of a jet fuel spill two weeks ago at Naval Air Station Oceana that contaminated a local creek and chased dozens of families from their homes.

The Ford brings the first new design of a carrier in more than 40 years, and carries with it several major technological upgrades – some of which have had kinks that needed to be worked out.

Greeted with a standing ovation, Vice President Mike Pence addressed the Naval Academy graduation Friday morning, where about 1,000 midshipmen became commissioned officers.

If the Navy gets what President Donald Trump’s budget requested, one item on its 2018 shopping list will be 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles, including 66 to replenish those fired in the last year at targets in Syria and Yemen, according to the service.

The Navy’s unveiling of a mandatory new “fitness suit” met with a tepid response from sailors based in Japan on Friday.

The White House budget office and the Navy are rushing to find an extra $600 million to buy a second Littoral Combat Ship after including only one in the budget that President Donald Trump proposed this week.

Two U.S. Navy planes came in fast over a bridge in Dong Phong Thuong, North Vietnam, in June, 1965. Cloud cover forced them to descend extremely low. The enemy was waiting.

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A Navy officer accused of attempted sexual assault of a minor following an Okinawa sting operation was acquitted of five related charges by a court martial jury on Thursday.