After receiving thousands of comments, the U.S. Coast Guard is backing off a proposal to remove dozens of navigational buoys.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After receiving over 3,200 public comments, the U.S. Coast Guard has called off the potential removal of maritime navigational ...

The Coast Guard says that the way boaters navigate has changed in the era of GPS and electronic charts, but many smaller vessels lack that technology. Proposed changes would mean removing 6% of the ...

After facing backlash from boaters, the U.S. Coast Guard is paring down a plan to remove dozens of navigational buoys from New England waters. Originally, the Coast Guard planned to discontinue nearly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JAMESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Mariners gathered Monday to express their concerns about a plan by the U.S. Coast Guard to phase out ...

FILE – A channel marker buoy floats in ice on the Delaware River in Philadelphia on an icy day in 2001. The U.S. Coast Guard wants to remove hundreds of buoys along the Northeast coastline to ...

MAINE (WABI) - The Coast Guard will delay its plans to remove navigational buoys in the Gulf of Maine and Atlantic. Senator Angus King and a bipartisan group of New England senators sent a letter to ...

BOSTON (WPRI) — As the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) mulls over whether to remove navigational buoys in the Northeast, one Massachusetts lawmaker is asking them to put it on hold. Congressman Seth Moulton ...

U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.), on Wednesday commended the Coast Guard for suspending a controversial plan to remove more than 300 buoys and other aids to navigation in Northeast waters. On Tuesday, ...

PORTLAND, Maine (WMTW) - The United States Coast Guard has put its Coastal Buoy Modernization Proposal (CBMP) on hold for now after getting a lot of public feedback. The Coast Guard says it received ...