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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Darius Heumann, 5, showed he has no trouble speaking truth to power when a senior officer aboard the U.S. Coast Guard’s Healy icebreaker asked a visiting tour group “how many elephants do you ...

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 ...