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

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

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 ...

American Cruise Lines launches 14-day Great Lakes cruises from Buffalo to Milwaukee starting May, boosting Western New York ...

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.

According to NOAA ice analysis updated this week, average ice cover across all five Great Lakes remains below 10%. This is tracking near average for mid-December. That’s not unusual. Historically, ...

It looks like the Great Lakes region might get another relatively normal ice year − a relief given recent trends. The U.S. National Ice Center released its 2025-2026 seasonal outlook this week, ...

A life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald, the famous Great Lakes freighter that was shipwrecked 50 years ago, will be auctioned in Detroit this month. The orange life ring washed onto the Lake Superior ...

A Canadian man became a minor celebrity in the Great Lakes region when his homemade houseboat was spotted drifting (more like, adrift) under the Blue Water Bridge on the St. Claire River near Port ...

Experts say the Great Lakes can be more dangerous than the open ocean due to their volatile nature. Waves on the Great Lakes are steeper and closer together, causing choppy conditions and a rougher ...