JUNEAU, Alaska –The U.S. Coast Guard’s Facilities Design and Construction Center awarded a contract Aug. 14, 2025, to the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company to design and construct new homeport facilities in Sitka, Alaska. The award, with a total potential value of $50.475 million, will construct waterfront facilities to support the arrival of one fast response cutter […]
[content id=”79272″] JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Coast Guard detected and responded to two Chinese research vessels operating in the U.S. Arctic and is currently monitoring a total of five similar vessels in or near the U.S Arctic. On August 5, a C-130J Hercules fixed wing aircraft from Air Station Kodiak responded to the Chinese […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — On Friday the Coast Guard recovered the downed MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter that crashed on Read Island on Nov. 13th during a rescue mission. The four aircrew members involved in the crash were medevaced to Seattle and brought to Harborview Medical Center and have since been released. Efforts to retrieve the aircraft included the Coast Guard, […]
On this day in 1925, Congress authorized the Coast Guard to enforce Alaskan Game Law for the protection of game animals, fishing, fur farms, etc. This gave CG officers equal footing with wardens, federal marshals & customs collectors. pic.twitter.com/NvHyNgIEZW — USCGAlaska (@USCGAlaska) January 13, 2022 Source: USCG-AK/Twitter [content id=”79272″]