Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A displaced polar vortex parked over the eastern U.S. has helped usher in days of subfreezing temperatures and caused many parts ...

An estimated $20 billion Coast Guard shipbuilding program that has failed to put a cutter into service amid ballooning costs and lengthy delays must have better oversight, according to a government ...

Last May, DHS approved production of the service's first polar security cutter to be built in nearly five decades.

Ice floats in front of the Statue of Liberty as seen from the Coast Guard Cutter Hawser icebreaker tug boat Wednesday in ...

The U.S. Coast Guard announced today it has completed the award of contracts for 11 Arctic Security Cutters, fulfilling President Trump’s directive to rapidly expand America’s icebreaker fleet.

Mobile-based shipbuilder Austal USA and the U.S. Coast Guard came together Monday to celebrate work on a ship that represents a critical future for both parties – if they can overcome problems so ...

Bollinger Shipyards has secured a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $2.14 billion from the U.S. Coast Guard for the production of four Arctic security cutters. The contract covers design, program ...

Shipyards in Louisiana and Finland will jointly build six new Arctic Security Cutter icebreakers, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday. Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, La., and Rauma Marine ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) arrives at Pier 46 on Coast Guard Base Seattle, Oct. 26, 2025. US Coast Guard photo The Coast Guard has committed $323 million to modernize its Seattle base in ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has finished awarding contracts for 11 new Arctic Security Cutters, a move that will reshape America’s small but important icebreaker fleet. The decision, announced in ...