The Coast Guard is the butt of countless jokes from the more prominent armed service branches—but is itself an armed service.

Coast Guard Island in the Oakland Estuary has been used to bust rum-runners and patrol the Pacific. This week, it was the ...

While large and unusual, the gift amounts to a small contribution toward the billions needed to cover service member ...

Law enforcement officers have fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

In an increasingly connected world, maritime cybersecurity has become a cornerstone of national and economic security. The vast oceans that ...

Often overshadowed by the Army, Navy, and Marines, the US Coast Guard played a vital but less-known role in World War II. In ...

A truck driver who backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area — the site of earlier protests against ...

Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base.

A demonstrator in religious garb was shot directly in the face with some sort of chemical agent. Agents also used explosive ...

After a U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea left two survivors, experts question why they weren't detained.