US Coast Guard ship seizes over 5,000 pounds of hashish in Arabian Sea bust

A U.S. Coast Guard fast-response cutter seized nearly 5,300 pounds of hashish from a vessel in the Arabian Sea recently in the latest major drug bust for Combined Task Force 150, the Navy said Tuesday.

Coast Guard stops sailboat carrying over 130 Haitian migrants near the Florida Keys

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted an overloaded migrant boat carrying more than 130 people from Haiti, including small children, near the Florida Keys last week.

Coast Guard calls off search for missing cutter crew member

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for Seaman Bryan K. Lee, who was reported missing from the Cutter Waesche while operating in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Coast Guard investigates tar on South Florida beaches

The Coast Guard is investigating the source of dark, greasy balls of oil that have washed ashore on South Florida beaches.

Parts of Fort Lauderdale Beach closed for swimming as oily tar balls wash up on shore

Beachgoers from Palm Beach to Broward counties had their Saturday beach day interrupted when tar balls started washing up along the shoreline, possibly due to an oil spill from a freighter or cruise ship, officials say.

Coast Guard suspends fired commandant’s policy aimed at eliminating harassment

Acting Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday did not say why the anti-harassment policy was put on hold, but his message emphasized that harassment is still prohibited by military general order. Hate incidents will continue to be investigated per current rules, Lunday said.

Armed troops arrive in Texas, California to begin work at the southwest border

Marines began to hang temporary barriers along a wall in San Ysidro, Calif., marking the U.S. border with Mexico as an Air Force flight crew prepared to take off from Texas to Ecuador with the military’s fourth planeload of deported migrants.

Coast Guard to ‘surge assets’ to South Florida to comply with Trump’s executive order

The U.S. Coast Guard said that it will be surging ships, boats and aircraft to South Florida and other areas of the country to bolster anti-maritime migration efforts to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to use the nation’s military to defend the border.

Coast Guard commandant fired over operational failures, response to sexual assault cover-up

Adm. Linda Fagan, commandant of the Coast Guard, was fired from a position she’s held for more than two years, according to an announcement sent to the service Tuesday morning.