As climate change brings more boats to the Arctic, the U.S.’s need for boats that can cut through the ice has also increased.

President Donald Trump is continuing his first-term focus on building a big, new American icebreaker fleet. Days after his ...

The Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact, between the United States, Canada and Finland is meant to pool new ship ...

ProPublica journalist McKenzie Funk says the Aiviq has a history of failures and design problems, but the Coast Guard doesn’t ...

The icebreaker’s paint — blue at the time — was fresh, its hull shiny. It looked capable. The problems began once the Aiviq was out of view. A Coast Guard report said that while the ship ...

Homeland Security officials have removed Adm. Linda Fagan from her role as the Coast Guard’s commandant, according to a note ...

A freighter heading to Canada was freed after being stuck in ice on Lake Erie for several days the US Coast Guard reported ...

For the Royal Navy to have more of something than the US Navy is unusual, but it does happen and one example is icebreakers.

(Photo: USCG) The icebreaker Aiviq is a gas guzzler with a troubled history. The ship was built to operate in the Arctic, but it has a type of propulsion system susceptible to failure in ice. Its ...

Chouest began looking around for someone to take the troubled icebreaker off its hands. The Coast Guard, which had criticized the ship’s role in the Kulluk accident, now became a potential customer.