Coast Guard

Coast Guard crews in Oregon and Washington have assisted 17 fisherman in five response calls since Sunday.

As the Federal shutdown enters a fourth week, 1,135 active duty Coast Guard members and 138 Coast Guard reservists on the Oregon coast remain on the job, but unpaid.

The U.S. Coast Guard remained busy in perilous waters up and down the Oregon Coast on Saturday, rescuing two surfers in distress north of Cannon Beach, just three days after responding to the capsizing a boat that killed three fishermen near Newport.

Three fishermen are dead after their commercial fishing vessel capsized Tuesday night near Yaquina Bay in Newport, a Coast Guard official has confirmed.

The witness who called 911 to alert first responders to a distressed surfer near Devils Punchbowl says he regrets not calling sooner to prevent the death of the young Corvallis doctor.

A young adult surfer was declared deceased at a Newport hospital Saturday after a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter responded to reports of an unconscious man in the water at Devil's Punchbowl.

A Coast Guard aircrew rescued two mariners from their vessel that ran aground in Yaquina Bay Sunday afternoon by hoisting them to safety.

A Coast Guard aircrew medically evacuated an ill woman off of a cruise ship transiting 55 miles southwest of Newport, Saturday morning.

A U.S. Coast Guard aircrew recovered the deceased body of a Lake Oswego man and his unresponsive female companion from the waters outside Rocky Creek State Park near Depoe Bay late Sunday afternoon.

A Coast Guard aircrew hoisted a man who reportedly became stranded on rocks at Cape Lookout State Park near Tillamook, Monday evening.