The U.S. Coast Guard plans to hire a commercial icebreaker to serve in the Arctic while waiting for the next generation of its cutters to be built in the next several years, service officials told ...

The U.S. now operates only two aging icebreakers: the 27-year-old medium icebreaker USCGC Healy and the 49-year-old heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star. The Coast Guard’s other heavy icebreaker ...

The Coast Guard will use Juneau, Alaska, as the homeport for its commercially procured icebreaker, the service announced Wednesday.The Coast Guard is in the process of acquiring a commercial ...

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

The icebreaker Aiviq, seen sailing 116 miles southwest of Kodiak. (From U.S. Coast Guard) The U.S. Coast Guard inked a deal last month to bring a third icebreaker, the civilian vessel Aiviq ...

But for all this, the same Coast Guard bought the Aiviq for $125 million late last year. The United States urgently needs new icebreakers in an era when climate change is bringing increased ...

The U.S. Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker, the USCGC Polar Star, transits through pack ice in the Southern Ocean, December 2022. (PO3 Aidan Cooney/Coast Guard) Full production of a new polar ...

Photo: Sarah Hansen/KUCB The U.S. Coast Guard made an official announcement Wednesday that it plans to homeport an icebreaker in Juneau. Plans to dock an icebreaker in the capital city have been ...

Juneau’ future U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker has a new paint job that includes the historic name “Storis,” the same name of a cutter nicknamed “The Galloping Ghost of the Alaskan Coast ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. The icebreaker Aiviq is a gas guzzler with a troubled history. The ship was built to operate in the Arctic, but it has a type of propulsion ...