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The wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars, performed patrols in waters off Alaska for decades, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a U.S. government vessel has been found, the Coast Guard said Thursday.

An oil slick off the coast of Newport Beach was caused by a spill from an offshore rig, and has dumped 126,000 gallons of oil into the ocean. City officials cancelled the last day of the Pacific Airshow for cleanup efforts.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued over 400 Haitian migrants and safely transferred them to Haitian authorities in two separate patrols Tuesday, September 28 and Thursday, September 30, the Coast Guard said.  News releases from the Coast Guard said the first patrol found 202 Haitians migrants in a 50-foot sail freighter, Tuesday, at approximately 1:30 p.m., about 20 miles northwest of Cap…

A Haitian migrant who’s now staying with family in Miami says the journey to the U.S. was bittersweet. NBC 6’s Kim Wynne reports

Rescue teams have recovered a woman’s body from the Boston Harbor following an early morning boat crash, authorities confirmed.

As cries for change and U.S. intervention for Cuba grow louder, the Coast Guard is keeping a watchful eye out in the Florida Straits for any attempt at what it called “unsafe and illegal” boat crossings toward Cuba by those sympathetic to the island protesters.

A good Samaritan and the U.S. Coast Guard rescued 13 Cuban migrants after their vessel capsized near Key West, but officials said another nine people are missing.

A South Florida man was arrested and charged with human trafficking after helping a group of migrants out at sea. NBC 6’s Jamie Guirola reports

Drugs worth roughly $220 million that were seized in international waters this year will be offloaded Wednesday in San Diego.

NBC 6’s Laura Rodriguez has the latest from the scene where Coast Guard crews are searching for the man who hasn’t been seen since going in the water.

RAW: Crews search for a swimmer who went missing off Miami Beach on April 20, 2021.

The U.S. Coast Guard said a swimmer who went missing in the ocean at Miami Beach Tuesday morning has been found safe. Officials said Miguel Angel Mondragon Raya had been last seen swimming in the area of 7th Street and Ocean Drive. Raya was with another man in the water but didn’t return to shore with the other swimmer,...

The shoreline of Florida has long been the goal for the desperate, whether they’re coming from Haiti or Cuba. Even though the “Wet Foot, Dry Foot” policy for Cubans was eliminated in 2017, there’s been a major uptick in rafters leaving Cuba, trying to reach the United States. So far this fiscal year, which began last October, the U.S....

Footage from the Martin County Sheriff’s Office shows a homemade vessel carrying Cubans capsizing off Florida’s coast.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued five Cuban men near Florida’s southeast coast who said they had been floating at sea in a small raft for 16 days after leaving their island.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued five Cuban men near Florida’s southeast coast who said they had been floating at sea in a small raft for 16 days after leaving their island

A diver who said he spent 10 hours in the water after drifting away from his boat in the Florida Keys was rescued by the Coast Guard early Friday. U.S. Coast Guard officials said the man’s wife called authorities around 10 p.m. Thursday when he didn’t come home after leaving from Cudjoe Key to American Shoal Light to dive....

The drugs were part of a bust made by the U.S. Coast Guard before being brought to South Florida.

More than $411 million worth of cocaine and marijuana seized by the U.S. Coast Guard was offloaded at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale Wednesday morning. The massive amount of drugs, which includes 23,000 pounds of cocaine and about 8,000 pounds of marijuana, was offloaded by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter James. Officials said the drugs were confiscated during…

The U.S. Coast Guard says a man went missing after falling into the water from a dinner-cruise ship in the Gulf Coast in Florida