The U.S. Coast Guard Southeast (USCG) said Sunday it suspended its search for a “possible” person in the water near the Mayport Ferry Landing on the St. Johns River.
Crews with the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast and other agencies were searching for a “possible” person in the water near the Mayport Ferry Landing on the St. Johns River on Saturday.
A cemetery in Northwest Jacksonville, which has sat neglected and overgrown for years, finally received some help on Monday. But it wasn’t from the property owner or the city; it was a community member who just wanted to lend a helping hand.
Audio recordings released by the Coast Guard capture the distress of a family who was rescued two days after their boat caught fire and sank, forcing them to swim to a private island.
President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.
Chinese coast guard ships have used powerful water cannons and rammed a Philippine government vessel near Thitu Island in the South China Sea.
Federal investigators have zeroed in on flaws in the pool deck as the preliminary cause of the 2021 collapse of a 12-story Florida beachfront condominium that killed 98 people.
A German nonprofit organization says three young Sudanese sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water in bad weather in the Mediterranean Sea.
Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville ended the voyage of an illegal vessel traveling on the St. Johns River on Friday.
Coast Guard Station Mayport is experiencing a notable increase in search and rescue operations this year. While not every call involves life-threatening situations, some do, and the crew remains vigilant as summer boating activity ramps up.
Judges at the European Court of Human Rights have ruled that Italy can't be held liable for the actions of the Libyan Coast Guard.
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority has suspended service of the St. Johns River Ferry for six to 12 weeks to repair the ramp structure.
The Department of Homeland Security wants to spend $50 million to buy a new long-range Gulfstream jet, replacing one used by Secretary Kristi Noem and top Coast Guard and DHS officials.
U.S. officials say the wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a security check.
The event will showcase the offload of over 48,400 pounds of illicit narcotics, which are valued at more than $509 million.
Almost five days after a vessel capsized on the St. Johns River, crews continue to look for a child who remained unaccounted for as of Wednesday afternoon.
Searchers continue to look for a child who remains unaccounted for nearly 60 hours after a vessel capsized on the St. Johns River near the Dames Point Bridge, sending eight people into the water.
Searchers continue to look for a child who remains unaccounted for nearly 60 hours after a vessel capsized on the St. Johns River near the Dames Point Bridge, sending eight people into the water.
Searchers continue to look for a child who remains unaccounted for nearly 60 hours after a vessel capsized on the St. Johns River near the Dames Point Bridge, sending eight people into the water.
On Sunday, community members got involved in looking for the final three boaters and expressed their commitment to providing closure for the families involved.
Three boaters remain missing on Saturday night after their boat capsized on the St. Johns River the day before. Rod Sullivan has worked in maritime law for over 40 years dealing with recreational boating accidents. He says with searches like these, the longer they go on, the more difficult the search can become.
The Coast Guard announced on Saturday evening that it has suspended its search for the three boaters who went missing after a boat capsized in the St. Johns River on Friday night.
An Italian navy ship has taken migrants to Italy from asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome.
The Philippine coast guard says Chinese coast guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries vessels conducting a scientific survey in a hotly disputed area of the South China Sea, forcing them to cancel the operation.
For years, waterway users in Florida have had to juggle multiple sources of information to plan, prepare and navigate safely to enjoy their time on the water.
A new report by a congressional subcommittee accused former top Coast Guard officials of hiding a yearslong investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the service’s academy in Connecticut from both Congress and the public.
Nine additional former cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy have formally accused overseers of the prestigious service academy of failing to prevent and properly address sexual violence on campus, while also covering it up.
An engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board says the carbon fiber hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process.
The co-founder of the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic said he hopes the legacy is a renewed interest in exploration.
Thirteen former cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are accusing overseers of the Connecticut school of failing to prevent sexual violence on campus and covering it up.
One of the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the implosion of an undersea submersible is seeking to move the case from state to federal court.
Chinese coast guard ship have fired water cannons, blocked and rammed a Philippine fisheries vessel in the disputed South China Sea, where hostilities between the Asian neighbors have flared alarmingly at sea and spread into the air in recent weeks.
The Philippine military chief has condemned what he said was the provocative actions of two Chinese air force aircraft that executed a dangerous maneuver and dropped flares in the path of a Philippine air force plane on routine patrol in the South China Sea.
Officials say a U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol south of Alaska's Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone.
It is as scary of a situation as anyone can imagine. Five people were stranded on top of a capsized boat 10 or more miles off the shore of Mayport Sunday morning.
The president of the Philippines says his country will not yield to “any foreign power” after Chinese forces injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged at least two military boats with machetes, axes and hammers in a clash in the disputed South China Sea, but added the Philippines will never instigate a war.
The Philippine military chief has demanded China return several rifles and equipment seized by the Chinese coast guard in a disputed shoal and pay for damage in an assault he likened to an act of piracy in the South China Sea.
U.N. agencies say 64 people are missing after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued by the Italian coast guard.
The Coast Guard and St. Johns County Fire and Rescue saved two people after their vessel took on water three miles off St. Augustine Beach on Saturday.
The Coast Guard and other first responders will be out patrolling the water this Memorial Day weekend and are asking the public to follow the law and be safe while boating.
The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas.
The weather is heating up, which is usually a sign for beachgoers to prepare to hit the waters.
A Coast Guard crew offloaded more than 1,850 pounds of cocaine with an assessed street value of approximately $24.3 million in Miami on Friday, officials said.
In the moments before the cargo ship Dali rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge and sent it crumbling into the water, a flurry of urgent warnings crackled over radios and enabled police to block traffic from getting on the span, likely saving lives.
A crane that can lift 1,000 tons has appeared near the site of a collapsed highway bridge in Baltimore as crews prepare to begin clearing wreckage.
News4JAX rode with the Coast Guard to learn about the buoys in the St. Johns River and what could happen to large cargo ships if cybercriminals ever hacked them.
Taiwan’s Coast Guard says two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by the coast guard off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago.
A person is dead and two others were arrested after a Coast Guard crew’s airborne use of force to stop a non-compliant vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea on New Year’s Day.
The U.S. Coast Guard says a lithium-ion battery fire on a cargo ship is out after days of burning off the coast of Alaska.
More pieces of the boat — believed to be the one that three missing Brunswick fishermen were last seen on — have been found Wednesday morning near Jungle Hut Park in Palm Coast.
The fishing lid of a fish box confirmed to belong to the boat that three missing Georgia fishermen were last seen on was discovered on Ormond Beach, according to an update posted on the Bring Our Boys Home Facebook page.
The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, have separately condemned a high-seas assault by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to block three Philippine fisheries vessels from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
The families of the three missing Georgia fishermen announced on Tuesday they would suspend their active search after exhausting every lead they had.
On Monday, the Coast Guard honored the partner agencies who stepped in to help rescue the 23 crew members and then salvage the Golden Ray cargo ship -- a process that took more than two years.
The Coast Guard will host an award ceremony Monday morning to honor crew members for their response to the Golden Ray cargo ship that capsized back in 2019 near Brunswick.
Debris from the boat of three missing fisherman was found 16 miles off the coast of St. Augustine Sunday night, according to the United Cajun Navy.
The families of Tyler Barlow, Caleb Wilkinson and Dalton Conway will gather supporters at 6 p.m. Saturday to light up downtown St. Marys as the search continues for the missing boaters.
The family of three missing Georgia fishermen are continuing their search a little over a week after the Coast Guard stopped.
The Coast Guard announced Thursday night they suspended the search for the three men who went missing while fishing aboard a 31-foot fishing boat 80 miles off the coast of Brunswick, Georgia.
Dalton Conway, Tyler Barlow and Caleb Wilkinson left for a fishing trip out of Brunswick, Georgia on the Carol Ann on Oct. 14.
The Coast Guard has launched a formal investigation into the collapse of a mast aboard a historic schooner that killed one person and injured three others off Maine's seacoast.
A young man who was lost at sea for about 30 hours in early August was reunited Thursday with the crews who helped rescue him.
Two Philippine security officials said that the United States, Japan and Australia are planning a joint navy drill this week in the South China Sea off the western Philippines after a recent show of Chinese aggression in the disputed waters.
Charlie Gregory’s story has been making headlines across the country after he was found Saturday morning clinging to his small boat 12 miles offshore.
A boater who had been missing for more than a day and a half was rescued off the Florida coast in a half-submerged boat.
A crew of six good Samaritans saved three boaters after their boat sank Saturday about 17 miles offshore in the Mayport area.
A local mom says two of her sons and their friend were returning from fishing when they got caught in a violent storm.
The operators of the underwater robot that located the missing submersible Titan quickly learned that it was up to them to find the vessel after other deep-sea experts had tried unsuccessfully.
A day after revelations that the Titan submersible imploded, officials are searching the ocean floor for evidence and determining who will be responsible for investigating the international disaster.
As Coast Guard officials try to determine more about the debris field found near the site of the Titanic, families with relatives who died or survived the 1912 Titanic disaster want tourism to the shipwreck to stop
The U.S. Coast Guard says a missing submersible imploded near the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people on board.
Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard are searching for a 35-year-old man who went overboard Monday from the Carnival Magic cruise ship.
The migration agency of the United Nations says the first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats.
A man who was saved by a Coast Guard rescue swimmer at the mouth of the Columbia River on Friday was wanted by police for a bizarre fish dumping incident at the home featured in the classic film, “The Goonies.”.
A Coast Guard investigation into the grounding in March of a cargo ship in the Chesapeake Bay is faulting the pilot tasked with helping the ship navigate the waterway.
Jacksonville City Councilman Rory Diamond has introduced a bill that would impose new mandatory building inspections for Jacksonville in the wake of the Surfside building collapse last year that killed 98 people.
News4JAX Meteorologist Richard Nunn has shown us everything from rescue operations to maintenance while going onboard with the Coast Guard. Now, he's giving us a closer look at how Coast Guard Station Mayport can stop a potential threat.
The man who in previously pleaded guilty to charges related charges in the death of a U.S. Coast Guard member was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to arrive along our coast in a matter of days, and members of the United States Coast Guard in Mayport are not taking any chances. They spent Tuesday morning preparing their boats, and urged local boaters to do the same.
