Cascade PBS helps your community explore new worlds and ideas through programs that educate, inform and inspire. Your tax-deductible donation helps make it all possible.

Fifteen migrants died after their boat collided with a coast guard vessel, capsized and sank off the Greek island of Chios in the Aegean Sea late on Tuesday, the Greek coast guard said, in one of ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has interdicted two drug-smuggling vessels off Port Everglades carrying 745 pounds of cocaine with a street value of $5.6 million, the agency announced Saturday. The seizures were ...

SAN DIEGO — Texas shipbuilder Davie Defense Inc. has been awarded a $3.5 billion contract by the U.S. Coast Guard to construct five icebreaking Arctic Security Cutters, the service’s commandant said ...

The mission of the United States Coast Guard is to protect, defend, and save. From search and rescue operations to maritime law enforcement, the Coast Guard "protects our seas, and protects us from ...

WASHINGTON — The vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard urged lawmakers on Wednesday to prevent a funding lapse for the Department of Homeland Security, warning that a partial government shutdown ...

A collision between a speedboat carrying migrants and a Greek coast guard patrol vessel off the eastern Aegean island of Chios has killed at least 15 people, the coast guard said late Tuesday, while a ...

NORTHEAST, Ohio (WOIO) - The U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes shared ways to stay safe around thin ice Sunday as temperatures begin to rise. With the warmer weather, ice on the Great Lakes and other ...

We testified on U.S. Coast Guard maritime security operations before the House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security. It is based primarily on the following ...

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Saturday for seven crew members aboard the commercial fishing vessel Lily Jean, which sank approximately 25 miles off Cape Ann, Massachusetts, the Associated ...

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended a search Saturday morning for two surfers who went missing in waters off Santa Cruz Friday evening. The two were reported in distress at about 6:30 p.m., about 200 yards ...