A rickety boat intercepted on the high seas was so overloaded with 240 Haitian immigrants that it was starting to sink when the US Coast Guard spotted it, the agency said Thursday. The illegal passengers are seen literally clinging to the edge of the boat and resemble sardines in a can in shocking pics taken by Coast Guard choppers before the craft was cut off Sunday near the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean,

U.S. Coast Guard hosts ribbon cutting for training center at former Birmingham-Southern College campus

CBS Philadelphia got a behind-the-scenes look at how the Coast Guard operates during water rescues after two swimmers recently went missing at the Jersey Shore.

The legacy of a hero who died on 9/11 will set sail on a new journey after the US Coast Guard named a ship in his honor — and entombed a sacred piece of World Trade Center steel in its walls. The US GC Vincent Danz cutter was christened Friday at the Big Apple’s Intrepid Museum before charting course for a career-long rescue mission in the Western Pacific.

The former Birmingham-Southern College campus transforms into a new training facility, promising to bolster military readiness.

BOSTON, MASS. (CBSNewsTexas.com) - The US Coast Guard held a press briefing in Boston, Massachusetts, Sunday "to bring closure" to the search and rescue phase of the response to the Titan submersible, which officially concluded after debris was discovered ...

Bo Davidson, of East Lyme, bangs a cymbal as she joins with protesters at McKinley Park in New London, Conn. ahead of President Trump's visit to the U.S. Coast Guard graduation on Wednesday. NEW LONDON — For the first time in nine years, President Donald Trump set foot in Connecticut on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduation in Connecticut and invited two record-setting senior athletes to join him on stage.