Lake Superior was calm, and the Michipicoten was plying deep waters June 8 when the ship's crew heard a loud bang. The 698-foot freighter suddenly began taking on water near Isle Royale. The ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new ballast water regulations that exempt existing Great Lakes ships from having to install onboard treatment. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the EPA ...
Lake Superior was calm, and the Michipicoten was plying deep waters June 8 when the ship's crew heard a loud bang. The 698-foot freighter suddenly began taking on water near Isle Royale. The ...
The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...
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 ...
Captain Benjamin Trudell was the first captain at the Grand Marais Lifesaving station. One of Captain Trudell's most notable rescues was that of the steamer South Shore on the morning of November 23, ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It was a foggy day in 1940 when the SS Arlington set out for what would be its final voyage. On April 20, 1940, the 244-foot ship was hauling wheat across Lake Superior, ...
S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the return of a set of important belongings to the Lakota community and a baseball field resurrected ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It was a foggy ...