Fleet Week New York is returning to the New York Harbor this week with days of family-friendly activities and tours for the public. The celebration of the armed forces will take place May 21-27 and include two U.

There are several classes of Coast Guard ships that are called cutters. Learn where the name came from and why it's used so widely in today's service.

As tensions rise to grab Arctic resources, the U.S. is racing to construct a new icebreaker vessel that can secure a foothold in the north first.

Two Chinese Navy frigates and a China Coast Guard cutter harassed a Philippine Navy patrol ship in the South China Sea near Scarborough Shoal on Monday in what Manila described as “aggressive and unsafe maneuvers.

To compensate for a dearth of existing icebreakers, the service in December purchased a commercially available light polar icebreaker — which was renamed the USCGC Storis — that became the first to be added to the service’s fleet in a 25-year period.