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 ...

Freighter food, mail delivery, and the life of a Great Lakes freighter pilot. In this episode of Great Lakes Now, delivering mail to Great Lakes freighters, a day in the life of a freighter pilot, and ...

The Great Lakes are known more commonly "Lake Superior" and for its capability to swallow ships without warning. 50 years later and the question still remains.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...