The Coast Guard commandant said he would join the other military branches to make a public case for funding his service beyond congressionally imposed spending caps. Adm. Paul Zukunft, speaking ...

The commandant of the Coast Guard is worried about the melting of the ice caps in the Arctic and the Antarctic because he feels the service's fleet of icebreaking ships -- all three of 'em -- is ...

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says the new cap workers dropped on top of the leaking oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday is starting to collect some oil. Allen, the top US official in charge ...

According to Coast Guard data, 62 vessel incidents exceeded the cap from 1991 through 2012 - an average of about three per year. The liability cap change also could affect a wide range of onshore ...

A longtime endurance runner and peace activist whose latest goal was to reach Bermuda in a homemade floating “Hydro Pod” was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday after he began ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Coast Guard says BP PLC has managed to cap one of three leaks at a deepwater oil well, but the work is not expected to reduce the overall flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico ...