If a commercial tugboat is under 26 feet, it is subject to fewer requirements and restrictions, a retired ferry, barge and tugboat captain and a longtime South Florida barge/tugboat company said.

On August 5, 2025, the U.S. Coast Guard offloaded more than $88 million in illicit drugs. The drugs were seized during three separate interdictions in the eastern Pacific.

Island communities off the coast of North Carolina are bracing for flooding ahead of the year’s first Atlantic hurricane, ...

A 10-year-old girl who was in critical condition following the barge-sailboat collision in Florida died Sunday, the third death from the incident.

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New permanent, year-round sales tax exemptions have just gone into effect that are expected to save Florida consumers more than $160 million a year on products ranging from batteries to bicycle ...

Florida now permanently exempting sales tax on batteries, sunscreen, bike helmets, more ...

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On Aug. 25, the Coast Guard said it captured 76,140 pounds of illicit narcotics valued at approximately $473 million in Port Everglades.

A US Coast Guard cutter on Monday unloaded a record haul of illegal drugs in Florida that, if it had made it to the streets, ...

Authorities say a $473M maritime drug bust netted cocaine with enough lethal doses to fatally overdose all 23 million ...