Coast Guard

NEWPORT, R.I. — A Rhode Island woman has been rescued after apparently falling off a sailboat and being stranded for hours on an island in Narragansett Bay. The U.S. Coast Guard says the woman said she fell off her husband's 39-foot sailboat sometime Friday afternoon as they were sailing from Newport to East Greenwich...

Coast Guard units throughout the Northeast have responded to more than 90 cases of unmanned, adrift and mostly unlabeled paddlecraft so far this year.

Two vessels, including one that capsized, required assistance in the waters off Wareham on Sunday, and at least one person was treated for hypothermia.

As the U.S. Coast Guard continues it's investigation into the dual sinking of two boats owned by Carlos Rafael, one of the vessels is headed to the scrapyard.

A Coast Guard aircrew rescued four people from a sinking New Bedford-based fishing boat Wednesday, about 18 miles south of Martha's Vineyard.

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell and City Councillor Brian Gomes both agree that there's something fishy about the sinking of two fishing vessels in New Bedford Harbor earlier this week.

The Coast Guard has added more resources to an ongoing search for a possible mariner in distress after receiving several "mayday" calls Wednesday night.

Whales were spotted Saturday afternoon in New Bedford Harbor.

A man is believed to have fallen in Providence River.

Two people have been rescued and two others are still missing after a boat sank about 10 miles off the coast of Nantucket.