The Coast Guard rescued a man from a downed aircraft near Haines, Sunday. At approximately 8:30 a.m., watchstanders at the ...

Nation World US Coast Guard helicopter that crashed during rescue mission in Alaska is recovered The MH-60 Jayhawk crashed on Read Island, about 80 miles east of Sitka, on Nov. 13.

The Coast Guard's acting commandant says Kodiak's 154-foot fast response cutters arriving this year can operate in the ...

A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter delivered a dewatering pump, while Good Samaritan vessels and the police emergency response vessel responded. The man and dog were taken aboard the ERV ...

A Coast Guard Jayhawk rescue helicopter from Air Station Sitka participates in a training exercise. A 35-year-old woman has died after the vessel she was on capsized Sunday near Sitka, according ...

All four crew members were taken to Seattle for treatment following the crash late Monday on Read Island, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) east of Sitka, said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Michael Salerno.

May 30—The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that the search had been suspended for four people missing from a Sitka fishing boat in what could be the deadliest incident in Alaska's charter fishing ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is frequently dispatched to tourist vessels. Last Saturday, Air Station Sitka crew evacuated a cruise ship passenger close to Alaska's Glacier Bay.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A U.S. Coast Guard ship on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across a guided missile cruiser from China, officials said Monday. But it turned out the cruiser wasn’t ...

“Search and rescue in Alaska is never a one-agency job; it takes all of us working together,” said Lt. Benjamin Endres, Alaska State Troopers statewide Search and Rescue coordinator.

The U.S. Coast Guard detected and responded to the China-flagged research ship Xue Long 2 on the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf (ECS) in the U.S. Arctic, approximately 290 NM north of Utqiagvik, ...