Flaws in Transocean Ltd.'s emergency training and equipment and a poor safety culture contributed to the deadly Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion that led to the Gulf oil spill, according to a Coast Guard report released Friday. Full story
Cuba's Transportation Ministry on Thursday denied claims by a U.S. housing company that the island nation is to blame for the loss of a barge carrying humanitarian aid to Haiti. Full story
Weeping and shaking their fists, North Koreans released last month after being held by South Korea for 50 days claimed Thursday they were beaten, imprisoned and pressured to defect after the South's coast guard raided and seized their fishing boat. Full story
Duck boat tours will return to the Delaware River in Philadelphia on Thursday, more than nine months after a collision between a tourist boat and a barge killed two exchange students. Full story
A 16-year-old girl has survived a fall from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, officials said. Full story
The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it never sought to enter Cuban waters to recover a stranded barge, contradicting an American company's account of an incident that resulted in the loss of $2 million in building supplies bound for Haiti. Full story
The U.S. Coast Guard is surveying damage done to one of the world's largest Marine reserves by the recent tsunami. KHNL's Brooks Baehr reports.
Dr. Charles Merguerian talks about the effects of the tsunami from Japan to the Western coast of the U.S.
Coast Guard Lt. Gene Maestas tells TODAY’s Meredith Vieira that all Coast Guard ships and commercial mariners are heading offshore in Hawaii
Coast Guard Lt. Gene Maestas speaks with TODAY’s Ann Curry about how they are warning and evacuating residents of the Hawaiian Islands.
"The Grio's 100" series profiles African Americans who are making history every day--among them LaShanda Holmes, who overcame tremendous hurdles to become the Coast Guard's first black female chopper pilot. NBC's Ron Mott reports.
In this April 21, 2010 file image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon.
A Southeast Alaska adventurer walks through a large ice tunnel formed by the shifting of icebergs along the terminus of the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau Monday Feb. 21, 2011. Walking on the frozen waters leading up to the glacier, along the glacier face and into ice caves surrounding the area is not
This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon Wednesday April 21, 2010. The Coast Guard by sea and air planned to search overnight for 11 workers missing since a thunderous explosion rocked an oil dri
