The U.S. Coast Guard has launched a new, easier-to-use online system that allows mariners to submit and track credential applications faster and more securely.

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A proposed 5 percent raise in Coast Guard discretionary funding in fiscal 2026 hangs in the balance amid a congressional fight over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Last week, the ...

Adm. Kevin Lunday, the 28th commandant of the Coast Guard, speaks after he was sworn in at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington on Thursday. (PO2 Gabriel Wisdom/U.S. Coast Guard) Adm. Kevin Lunday ...

A reinvigorated U.S. Coast Guard is making the Western Hemisphere a "no-go Zone" for dangerous "Dark Fleet tankers. After facilitating the seizure of two more “dark fleet” oil tankers this week, U.S.

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. By Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washington The Coast ...

WASHINGTON/LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard is waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it has been ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Saturday confirmed that the United States Coast Guard“apprehended” an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. “In a pre-dawn action early this morning on Dec.

References in U.S. Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols “potentially divisive" were removed Thursday, and a U.S. senator said she was lifting a hold she had placed on a nomination for the service's ...

Washington — The Senate confirmed Admiral Kevin Lunday as Coast Guard commandant Thursday night after agency guidance on the display of hate symbols such as swastikas and nooses was clarified.

After the Washington Post reported last month that the U.S. Coast Guard was reclassifying swastikas and nooses to no longer be considered hate symbols, Jewish leaders voiced their objections. The ...

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) has placed a hold on the nomination of Adm. Kevin Lunday to serve as head of the Coast Guard after the service backtracked on keeping swastikas and nooses labeled as hate ...