Military commanders will lose their authority to overturn court-martial findings in the most serious sexual harassment cases as of Jan. 1, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

The Navy has pumped over $123 million into the clean-up of a World War II anti-submarine blimp hangar at the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin in Southern California that was destroyed by fire a year ago.

A House panel on Wednesday leveled bipartisan criticism at the Coast Guard for delays in building Polar Security cutters needed to offset the growing Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic.

An Army lieutenant colonel was sentenced Friday to receive an official reprimand and fined almost $100,000 after he was found guilty by a military judge of harassing three female officers under his command.

On the first day of court-martial proceedings against former Lt. Col. Bernard West III, prosecutors said lewd jokes, unwanted touching and partial undressing were a methodical campaign of sexual harassment by the former JBLM battalion commander.

The more than 30,000 soldiers, airmen and civilians at the base have learned to share the natural space surrounding the nearly 65,000-acre base with moose, elk, and other wildlife of central Alaska. But the interlopers who get the most attention at Elmendorf-Richardson are the bears.

Spc. George Cornejo has been formally charged in the death of Spc. Andrew Patrick Smith at the Fort Irwin National Training Center in California. Smith died Oct. 28 after military police found him injured at his on-base residence, and Cornejo was detained the following day as part of the investigation.

The uniforms of sailors have spawned civilian fashion trends still popular today, from white t-shirts to dungarees. The journey from the high seas to cultural icons is told in a new exhibit at the Puget Sound Navy Museum in Bremerton, Wash.

The U.S. Coast Guard plans to hire a commercial icebreaker to serve in the Arctic while waiting for the next generation of its cutters to be built in the next several years, service officials told lawmakers.

Sgt. Joelle Pamplona, a 29-year-old physical therapist, was on a private trip to Hawaii. Pamplona and two unidentified friends went snorkeling in an area with signs that warned visitors not to go into the ocean.