If you are out along San Diego Bay, you may notice something bright yellow floating in the water. The first smart buoy was recently deployed in the bay. The goal is to eventually deploy five of them ...

NOAA's Great Lakes lab has lost 35 percent of its workforce since February due to a hiring freeze, forced retirements, and ...

Electronic navigation is wonderful when it’s working — but when it’s not working, that becomes a problem,” said Salem’s ...

Gone is the day that the No. 1 job of a buoy is to show the boats where to go on a lake and — more importantly — where not ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is proposing a wide-reaching plan to remove or alter hundreds of navigational markers along the New ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has proposed removing dozens of navigational buoys in Maine waters, but some boaters are expressing ...

and then could allow you to navigate around those buoys. That could also take out some of the guesswork for the agents who are in the water trying to figure out if people are just tourists or if ...