Canada's newest polar icebreaker isn't even built yet, but already it's smashing through ice. A model of the John G. Diefenbaker is undergoing tests in an ice tank in St. John's. The effort is to ...

The federal government has handed a $3.25 billion contract to the Davie Shipyard in Levis, Que. to build a new polar icebreaker by 2030. It will be one of the 'largest' on the planet, according to ...

The Polar Star is the U.S. Coast Guard’s only active heavy polar ice breaker. On Saturday, AMSA said the Aurora was allowed to continue and that the Chinese ship was safe not in need of assistance.

The Coast Guard already has one large icebreaker under construction, but that project has seen signifcant costs overruns and delays of more than a year for completion. The nonpartisan U.S ...

President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker fleet in the Arctic, where Washington hopes to counter rising ...

The trilateral "Ice Pact" will include information sharing on icebreakers - the workhorses of polar coastguard fleets - to create an interoperable product class across three countries, as well as ...