Coast Guard

Witnesses says the victim was seen going down in the water and not resurfacing.

Authorities are still searching for the 48-foot tug C-Pec.

The Coast Guard says an explosion took place on a platform in West Cote Blanche around 9 a.m. today.

The Coast Guard say the pilot's body by divers.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 47-year-old Denham Springs man faces federal charges of mail fraud and retaining stolen government property for allegedly selling electronic equipment from the U.S. Coast Guard. An indictment was returned by a federal grand jury Wednesday in Baton Rouge...

The Senator says the White House Budget is over 3 percent smaller.

They can't find him. The Coast Guard has been looking for a missing fisherman the past couple of days.

A key federal report blames poor management, key missteps and a faulty cement job by BP and others for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history and the deaths of 11 rig workers.

The search is on for a single-engine Piper PA28 aircraft that disappeared from radar while flying over the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles southeast of Venice.  The Coast Guard began looking for the plane around noon yesterday, but didn't locate any signs of a downed aircraft or a debris field...

Three people were airlifted by the Coast Guard to an area hospital after the 36-foot charter boat they were on took on water and then capsized in Southwest Pass.

The Coast Guard has found a seven mile long oil slick in the gulf near Venice.

The Coast Guard is checking on reports of an oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.

Some improvement in the travel situation on the Mississippi River.

The Coast Guard's investigation of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion disaster concludes that rig owner Transocean's flaws in safety management, and overall lax on-rig safety practices contributed to the catastrophe. 11 men died when the rig exploded on April 20th of last year...

The Coast Guard reports that testing of an area of possible pollution it investigated in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend contains only trace amounts of hydrocarbons, oil and grease.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The crew of an offshore drilling unit rescued four people after the small plane they were in crashed into the Gulf of Mexico 170 miles south of New Orleans.