The winter maintenance period lasts into March and allows crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform needed ...

A timelapse video posted to social media shows a Great Lakes freighter make its final transit of the season through the. In ...

While ice is starting to close in on the Great Lakes, the Soo Locks remain open for a few more days. When the season ends.

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 ...

The lakes' frozen waters are currently impacting commercial traffic between ports across the Great Lakes in places like ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked a federal appeals court to strike down federal rules that, she said, put the Great Lakes at risk of invasive species that damage the lakes’ ecosystem ...

DULUTH — The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from ...

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To date, the Great Lakes as a whole are just shy of 15% ice coverage, up from the 10% average for this time of year.