In November 1966, the freighter Daniel J. Morrell encountered a violent storm on Lake Huron. Without warning, the ship broke ...

The locks will close until March 25 when the spring shipping season begins. The MacArthur Lock is scheduled to reopen in late ...

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

For more than 150 years, the Twin Ports have been a critical energy transportation hub in the heart of the country. In the ...

Decades-old shipwrecks, industrial accidents, and other disasters still sell books and command eyeballs. The author of the ...

In January 2020, Heather and I sat at a table full of industry VIPs at Viking's expedition cruises launch event in Los ...

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

Last year, maritime archaeologists revisited the "Northerner" in Lake Michigan and captured hundreds of still images, which ...

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.

The Soo Locks will close to all marine traffic beginning 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Jan. 15, or until commercial traffic ceases, ...

Ice on Lake Erie is a familiar sight most winters, but as we've been telling you, an exceptionally cold December brought the ...