JUNE 30, 2026 - The Olympic Peninsula is home to one of the most unique ecosystems in the world. Noteworthy for its extreme elevation changes—the landscape spanning coastline to the snow-capped Olympic Mountains— it is home to the largest temperate rainforest in the continental United States and species of wildlife and plants found nowhere else on earth due to the region’s … [Read more...]

JUNE 30, 2026 — The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded a contract to Bordelon Marine to provide a commercial support vessel that will transport supplies, equipment and personnel to Coast Guard cutters operating in the Caribbean, Gulf of America, and other maritime areas in the Western Hemisphere. The contract supports the Coast Guard’s Homeland Security Cutter-Ocean (HSC-Ocean) … [Read more...]

JUNE 30, 2026 - The crew aboard the Coast Guard cutter Bear offloaded approximately 7,720 pounds of cocaine and 4,000 pounds of marijuana worth more than $63 million at Port Everglades, Florida, June 26. The seized contraband was the result of three interdictions in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The crew detected a go-fast vessel June 11, and the … [Read more...]

default JUNE 27, 2026 — The U.S. Coast Guard, Canadian Coast Guard, and Japan Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of three people stranded aboard the 40-foot disabled sailing vessel Mizuya, approximately 950 miles southwest of Adak, Alaska, Sunday. The crew of Canadian Coast Guard Ship Sir Wilfrid Laurier picked up all three members in good condition Sunday and … [Read more...]

JUNE 25, 2026 — A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew from Air Station Port Angeles assisted local search and rescue crews with the evacuation of an injured 33-year-old female hiker from Mount Larrabee in Washington’s Mount Baker Wilderness, Saturday. The hiker sustained serious injuries after she fell 120 feet down a steep gully on the mountain’s south face and was … [Read more...]