Families gathered Monday morning at Naval Station Norfolk to say emotional goodbyes as USS Gonzalez and more than 300 sailors ...

By law, the US Navy is required to operate 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, which has required that the decommissioning ...

The USS Nimitz will stay in service until March 2027. The extension matches delays for its replacement ship, the USS John F.

Although the Nimitz’ scheduled decommissioning has been delayed for a year, the ship will probably remain in port until then.

A U.S. Navy ship named for Connecticut Medal of Honor recipient Harvey C. Barnum Jr is to be commissioned in April.

It took more than 30 hours for sailors to put out the fire aboard the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford last week, sailors and military officials said, as the ...

CVN-68 began a homeport shift to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., as part of a long-planned process for the carrier’s ...

The Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier is sailing to Norfolk, Va., ahead of its planned decommissioning later this year, the ...

The United States has 11 aircraft carriers spread across the world, but four of them are in various stages of maintenance.

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

In our monthly series of articles about Nelson and Norfolk, we have explored his life and death. Nelson held a strong ...

Instead of decommissioning this year, Breaking Defense reports that the U.S. Navy’s oldest commissioned aircraft carrier will ...