The Trump administration and Congress, seeking to improve security, have approved funding for eight icebreakers and are ...

Therese Langer Woelfel is the author of "Our Guiding Light: Wisdom from the Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter," about her ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald still sits at the bottom of Lake Superior, submerged in 535 feet of water, about 17 miles ...

Even though the Rouse Simmons sank in 1912 in choppy Lake Michigan waters, its legacy continues to live on every holiday season thanks to the USCGC Mackinaw.

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, ...

Experts say the Great Lakes can be more dangerous than the open ocean due to their volatile nature. Waves on the Great Lakes ...

S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the return of a set of important belongings to the Lakota community and a baseball field resurrected ...

Michigan’s shoreline towns will welcome thousands of visitors who step off luxury Great Lakes cruise ships in 2026. Who are they? “Cruise passengers are generally retirees with disposable income who ...

Travelers planning to fly out of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Sunday should prepare for possible delays and cancellations as winter storms freeze some flights in the Midwest. Look for ...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn’t take to the skies all that often. While there are characters that move around using armored suits and others that can straight-up fly, most of the fighting ...

Hidden in the Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin Ave., is a little-known collection of artifacts related to ships that have traversed the Great Lakes for the past 400 years — ...

TWO HARBORS, Minn. – Nolan Church joined the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald as a porter late in life — a new career at age 50 after he was laid off from mining-related work in Silver Bay. After long ...