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The United States has signed a new agreement with Palau, which gives Coast Guard ships the authorization to unilaterally enforce maritime regulations in the tiny Pacific island nation’s exclusive economic zone

As flames tore through a West Maui neighborhood, fleeing residents headed for the only paved road out of town in a dash for safety

The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued a 64-year-old man whose sailboat became disabled and who spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas

Commanders of the Coast Guards of India and Philippines signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Enhanced Maritime Cooperation

The marooned man fired flares from the destroyed sailboat, helping the coast guard find him

Indian Coast Guard successfully conducted medical evacuation of Chinese national from Panama flagged vessel in Arabian Sea. They established communication with vessel, airlifted patient with Advanced Light Helicopter MK-III and provided first aid. Swift operation during dark hours saved foreign national's life, affirming Coast Guard's commitment to motto "We Protect".

The divers plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off a pleasure craft more than 60 miles from Myrtle Beach, S.C. It wasn't until after midnight that they were seen again.

The group of four men, who have not been named, set off on the pleasure craft Big Bill’s on Sunday morning

The fire that tore across a coastal Maui town and caught many by surprise has already claimed dozens of lives and burned more than 1,000 buildings

The fire took the island by surprise, leaving behind burned-out cars on once busy streets and smoking piles of rubble where historic buildings had stood in Lahaina Town.

US Coast Guard says it rescued a dozen people who fled into the ocean to escape fire and smoky conditions in West Maui.