The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other partners are working to find new ways to address ice in the Soo Locks, which can ...

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 ...

This fall, trending topics have taken an unexpected turn. Instead of pumpkin spice lattes or football, the internet is talking about a decades-old shipwreck. Social media has been packed with posts ...

As I write this column, it is the 50th anniversary to the day — Nov. 10, 1975 — of the sinking on Lake Superior of the majestic Great Lakes freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, amid the storm of the century.

50 years ago this week, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, claiming the lives of all 29 of its crew members. The fabled ship, immortalized by Canadian singer-songwriter ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The Great Lakes Maritime Academy hosted its 50th annual Mariners Memorial Service on Monday afternoon. The annual ceremony took place at the Great Lakes Campus of Northwestern Michigan ...

Detroit — A Canadian freighter that ran aground in the Detroit River Friday was still stuck Saturday afternoon near the downtown riverfront east of the Renaissance Center. On Saturday, shortly before ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...

These days, when someone mentions the Edmund Fitzgerald, our minds immediately flip to Gordon Lightfoot’s iconic ballad that tells the tale of the freighter’s terrible sinking in a Lake Superior storm ...

On Nov. 9, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald left port from Superior, Wisconsin, bound for Detroit's Zug Island with a load of 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets. The day was relatively ...