Illegal charter boat operations exploded during the pandemic. They still present a “big problem” for the U.S. Coast Guard.

Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued two children and three adults after their boat became disabled 30 miles west of Sanibel.

An 83-foot fishing boat that's been sitting at the bottom of the New Meadows River in Harpswell for seven months, is being removed by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Coast Guard boarding team members attached to the Coast Guard Cutter Narwhal detain 21 migrants aboard a 34-foot boat near Newport Beach, California on Nov. 14, 2024.