coast guard

A Fairhaven man could face up to six years in prison for making fake distress calls to the Coast Guard. The U.S. Attorney's Office says on three occassions in the Spring of 2015, 47-year-old Roger Martin made distress calls to the U.S...

The Coast Guard says it has rescued three people from the water after their boat overturned in Pamet Harbor in Truro. The boat's owner, who was on land, called the Coast Guard to report he'd lent his 14-foot aluminum boat to three people and it had flipped over...

A fisherman onboard a New Bedford based vessel was medevaced Saturday night.

A New Bedford fishing vessel was towed safely home after becoming stranded off the coast of Cape Cod.

BOSTON (AP) — The Coast Guard and several other agencies have recovered the body of a fisherman who reportedly fell off a commercial fishing vessel near Nantucket. The Coast Guard said it located the body at about 1 p.m. Monday after a nearly four-hour search...

Authorities have released the name of the boater whose body was pulled from the Cape Cod Canal Sunday afternoon.

The body of a missing boater has been found in Buzzards Bay.

The Coast Guard comes to the aid of a disabled fishing boat.  Here's the release from the Coast Guard First District Office: The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Sanibel towed an 84-foot commercial fishing vessel Friday with seven people aboard after the vessel became disabled 100 miles off the coast of Nantucket...

A New Bedford fishing vessel recently agreed to pay a civil penalty for fishing in a closed area.

BOSTON (AP) _ The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued crews from two sinking fishing boats off the coast of Massachusetts. The Coast Guard said it responded to two separate rescue calls on Wednesday from boats that were taking on water...