The Coast Guard has launched ‘operation Oliva’ coastal patrolling as part of its annual mission to ensure the safe mid-sea ...

Vessels are critical to our economy, with over 80% of the world’s trade facilitated by the maritime industry. The average ...

Since then, Coast Guard and other federal agencies have stopped several smuggling boats at sea in Biscayne Bay seemingly ...

President Donald Trump's administration said some federal government employees who took the "Fork in the Road" buyout offer ...

Tar balls are formed when oil coalesces around debris, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

The Trump administration ousted 405 employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in an ongoing workforce purge that ...

Thousands of gallons of oil are gone from the East River, but no one knows how much is left—or where it’s leaking from.

Beaches in South Florida are open again after an oily substance presumed to be tar balls began washing up on the coast between West Palm Beach and Miami-Dade County over the weekend. Tarballs in the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has detained 11 Mexican fishers for illegally catching 1,350 pounds of red snapper and nine sharks in ...

Over the weekend, something unusual washed up along South Florida beaches. The United States Coast Guard spent this past weekend investigating reports of tar balls from Lake Worth Beach to Boynton ...

Several Broward County beaches in Florida, from Port Everglades in Miami to Palm Beach, were closed for a time this past ...