Adm. Linda Fagan, commandant of the Coast Guard, was fired from the service’s top job because of her leadership deficiencies, operational failures and her handling of the service’s recent ...

The commandant of the US Coast Guard has been removed from her position over “leadership deficiencies” and “operational failures,” a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to CNN on ...

Failure by the U.S. Coast Guard to investigate and prosecute incidents of sexual assault and harassment extend beyond a scandal at the school's service academy, a systemic problem that continues to ...

Unless something changes fast, the Coast Guard won't be able to send life-saving helicopters into action. Trouble with the U.S. Coast Guard’s emblematic fleet of 135 lifesaving, smuggler-hunting and ...

Thirteen former cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are seeking $10 million each from the service, accusing the Coast Guard of failing to implement adequate policies and practices that allowed ...

In a surprise move, the U.S. Coast Guard abruptly cut the service life of their MH-60T Jayhawk Medium Range Recovery Helicopters from 20,000 hours to 19,000. As a result, six high-hour aircraft were ...

In a stunning and hasty reversal, the U.S. Coast Guard announced late Thursday that swastikas and nooses are prohibited hate symbols - erasing an attempt to soften their definition after the plan ...

In November 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that, according to a new policy, the U.S. Coast Guard would no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols starting in December 2025.

A federal judge in Eugene extended a temporary court order on Monday requiring the U.S. Coast Guard to maintain a search and rescue helicopter in Newport for at least the next two weeks. The agency ...

The U.S. Coast Guard concluded a search and rescue exercise (SAREX) with the Japan Coast Guard training vessel Kojima off the coast of San Diego, May 14, 2023. Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty ...

For 235 years, the United States Coast Guard has secured our waterways and defended our homeland as America’s premier maritime law enforcement agency. They never flinch in their mission to patrol and ...