The 2025 Great Lakes shipping season will kick off four days earlier than expected. That’s because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to open the Soo Locks to shipping traffic on the morning ...

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Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ...

The Great Lakes shipping season is kicking off this week as the the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie reopen early, marking the start of the 2025 season. The Poe Lock will open at 8 a.m. Friday, U.S. Army ...

People have long shared stories about strange places where compasses go haywire and ships vanish without a trace. The Bermuda ...

Great Lakes shipping is down slightly through the end of May as compared to the same time last year. Ships have hauled 7.97 million tons of cargo on the Great Lakes and through the St. Lawrence Seaway ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (WLUC) - A new season of shipping on the Great Lakes is underway. That means you’ll soon see those large freighters once again. The Poe Lock opened to all marine traffic at 8 a ...

The dangerous bodies of water might not be the ones you expect. From the English Channel to the Great Lakes, these are six of the most dangerous bodies of water with tens of thousands of shipwrecks ...

Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in plain sight in a local newspaper clip.

The Chamber of Marine Commerce has called on Ottawa to allow international containers into smaller ports by bolstering ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– Today marks the first day of the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie opens for the 2025 Great Lakes shipping season, an official sign of Spring in Michigan! The U.S. Army Corps of ...

A "ghost ship" that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has been found, according to researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater ...