The locks, which have been closed since January, reopen Tuesday night and usher in the 2026 shipping season.

The Soo Locks, which allow ships to pass safely from Lake Superior to Lake Huron, are set to open after their annual 10-week ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience aboard a Great Lakes freighter could be your prize for supporting the good work being done in ...

Winter maintenance at the Soo Locks is wrapping up as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prepares to mark the start of the 2026 ...

Detroit — Great Lakes water levels are expected to run several inches to a foot below average during the 2026 boating season, a shift that Lake Carriers’ Association officials say could lessen ...

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...

A ship built 16 years before the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975, still navigates the waters of the Great Lakes transporting cargo. The SS Alpena, launched in 1942 under the name SS ...

On this episode of Great Lakes Now: It’s been 50 years since a freighter sank in the Great Lakes, but in June 2024, one ship came dangerously close. For one crew member, the experience was life ...

The Iosco was a wooden freighter hauling iron ore and towing the schooner barge Olive Jeanette when a sudden, ferocious storm ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping ...