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Life jackets worn at all times would lessen possible tragedy, officials say. Alcohol or drug use played a role in 23% of fatalities last year, which is up 10% from 2022.

About 20,500 gallons of polluted water leaked into the basin last month. The Coast Guard said that 99% of the spill was cleaned by Sept. 12, with all remaining oil residue cleaned by Sept. 21. About 6.4 tons of oily debris was cleaned from the area.

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating an oil spill at Port Manatee that caused over 19,000 gallons of polluted water. With a lot of unknowns, environmentalists are calling for more transparency into details of the spill.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas insisted the new parole policy has relieved the border crisis — and so questioned why Republicans oppose it.

Cubans are arriving in the Florida Keys in rickety boats in larger numbers than a year ago, the U.S. Border Patrol reports.

The migrants say they had been at sea for a week and lacked food and water during the last two days.

Twenty bodies have been recovered, while five crew members made it to safety. Authorities say they believe the rest of the 39 people aboard the Conception have died since the boat caught fire Monday.

U.S. Coast Guard members are still on the job, rescuing people and guarding national waters.But with the government shutdown in effect, they're not…

The United States Coast Guard seized cocaine with an estimated street value of around $500 million during a series of interdictions in international...

Another fact-finding expedition into why Jacksonville-based cargo ship El Faro sank in the Caribbean two years ago is set to take place Tuesday, this...

With the release of the National Transportation Safety Board’s final report into the demise of cargo ship El Faro Tuesday, the families of the lost crew...

The brother of one of El Faro’s able bodied seamen who died when the ship went down is speaking out after the release of a 200-page report from the U.S....