The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James offloaded more than 44,550 pounds of marijuana and cocaine at Port Everglades in Florida.

Pacific mariners can enhance their safety when they’re out on the water by carrying locator beacons.

The USS Shiloh returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii on Friday after a three-month deployment patrolling the South Pacific in support of Oceania Maritime Security Initiative 2025.

A Chinese man was sentenced to a short federal prison term for attempting to smuggle 12 Chinese migrants from the Northern Mariana Islands to Guam last year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Guam said.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Guam is expecting at least two new cutters next year, an addition that would expand its operations as the service reprioritizes border security.

Bollinger Shipyards is moving forward with design work and construction of the Coast Guard’s first new heavy icebreaker in five decades, part of a program that has faced repeated delays and cost increases.

The U.S. Coast Guard and a nearby fire department staged a laborious rescue operation Saturday after a hiker who strayed off California’s Lost Coast Trail plummeted 100 feet down a rugged cliff and had to cling to a 60-foot bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

A routine patrol inspection by the U.S. Coast Guard last weekend off the coast of Fort Lauderdale led to the discovery of 550 pounds of cocaine — worth about $6.3 million — hidden in suitcases.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took a trip to Fort Lauderdale on Thursday where a U.S Coast Guard cutter crew offloaded more than 45,000 pounds of cocaine, the largest amount seized during a single deployment.

Unlike other service members, members of the Coast Guard can be forced to leave the service a couple years shy of qualifying for retirement at 20 years of service if their enlistment expires and they are denied reenlistment.