Cold Great Lakes waters have preserved thousands of shipwrecks. See haunting underwater photos revealing the eerie wrecks ...

The Ghost Ships Festival will take place in Manitowoc on March 6-7 at the Inn on Maritime Bay. A major highlight is the recently discovered steamer Lac La Belle, which was lost for 150 years. The ...

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About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest drivers of winter weather in the Great Lakes region are warming and trending ...

Winter has officially tightened its grip on the Great Lakes. The latest numbers released on Feb. 3 confirm what many Michiganders have felt. Ice coverage across the Great Lakes has surged, driven by a ...

The arctic air mass entrenched over the Great Lakes has resulted in ice expansion across the lakes over the last several days. As of January 26, total ice coverage on the Great Lakes is about 43.2%.

CLEVELAND — U.S. Coast Guard ships worked in icy waters on the Great Lakes on Jan. 21 to help large cargo boats that were stuck in ice. Two Coast Guard cutters — the Mackinaw and the Neah Bay — broke ...

On a brisk January day with wind chills plunging to minus 25 degrees, Paul “Blade” Bloedorn stood out on nearly 2 feet of ice on Lake Michigan’s Little Bay de Noc. Last weekend, more than 400 shacks ...

With the Soo Locks closed until March, Great Lakes freighters are quickly heading to port for winter maintenance at harbors from Minnesota to New York. Just a few of the bulk carriers are still moving ...

In November 1913, an unprecedented storm swept across the Great Lakes, combining hurricane-force winds, blinding snow, and towering waves. Ships were caught with no warning and no safe harbor, leaving ...

CLEVELAND — Do you have weather whiplash yet? The Great Lakes sure do! There have been several large temperature swings this season. As a result, ice coverage on the lakes has been all over the place ...

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