Shipping season is underway on the Great Lakes; and while nearly everyone is familiar with the dangers if "the gales of November come early," sailors know just as well how dangerous early season ...

SAULT STE. MARIE — One of the most recognizable aspects of Sault Ste. Marie is the 500-foot freighter permanently docked in downtown Sault, which is also home to one of the most comprehensive museums ...

The 2025 Great Lakes shipping season will kick off four days earlier than expected. That’s because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to open the Soo Locks to shipping traffic on the morning ...

Lake Michigan, north of Muskegon, on February 11, 2024. Typically, in mid-February, this stretch of the beach would be covered in thick ice. For millennia, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway has been ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave ...

ALPENA, MI - The year 1854 was not the deadliest for Great Lakes shipping – that sad title belongs to 1913 – but it was the costliest with 384 disasters and $2.1 million in losses. Adjusted for ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald still sits at the bottom of Lake Superior, submerged in 535 feet of water, about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan.

From summertime beach fun to the famous brewing company, the Great Lakes have made a name for themselves in a variety of ways. However, not everyone pictures its long history in trading and shipping, ...

(CBS DETROIT) — Anchored in downtown Detroit, cruise ships are docking at the Port of Detroit in numbers many haven't seen since the mid-60s. Viking Octantis dropped off more than 375 passengers on ...

A German shipping company that owns the Cornelia, a freighter detained for six weeks in Duluth last winter, has been indicted for disposing oil-contaminated waste into the Great Lakes. On Wednesday, ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jennifer Boehme grew up ...