The U.S. Coast Guard said late Friday it has called off a dayslong search for several people who jumped overboard when their alleged drug-trafficking boats were targeted by the U.S. military.

The service said that conditions in the area where the search was taking place included nine-foot seas and winds approaching 50 miles per hour.

The U.S. Coast Guard has seized more than 150,000 pounds of cocaine off the west coast of North America since early August, the service said Tuesday. “Operation Pacific Viper” has been directed at drug running in the eastern Pacific Ocean, using Coast ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says it seized over $220 million worth of cocaine in multiple recent interceptions of alleged drug boats. At least one operation apparently left a small vessel burning. The crew of the USCG Cutter Midgett intercepted four different ...

Crew of U.S Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) in 2014. US Coast Guard Photo The U.S. Coast Guard changed the name of its heavy icebreaker program to highlight its importance to national security, as funding for the first-in-class ship may ...

United States Coast Guard Academy is a public institution that was founded in 1876. In the 2026 edition of Best Colleges, United States Coast Guard Academy is ranked No. #1 in Regional Colleges North. It's also ranked No. #1 in Top Public Schools.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three divers in the Atlantic Ocean about a mile off the coast of Palm Beach on Jan. 4, officials said. The trio lost sight of their vessel while underwater and were brought to shore by a crew from the Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet, Coast Guard officials said in a news release.

A merger between San Diego County Credit Union and California Coast Credit Union, which would have joined two of San Diego’s oldest banking institutions to create an almost 630,000-member, $13.5 billion credit union,