The winter maintenance period lasts into March and allows crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform needed ...

If you think freighter food is just cafeteria slop, think again. Sissy Payment is the cook aboard one of the lake’s thousand ...

When the large cargo vessels go in and out of the St. Lawrence River, they come along the south edge of the Quinte region in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Not since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50 years ago today has a giant freighter been lost on the Great Lakes, but prior to then, a number of big ships met their demise, often in ...

LUDINGTON, MI - The Armistice Day Storm of 1940 was a freak weather event that killed more than 150 people, including 64 sailors on Lake Michigan. Hurricane-force winds were whipping up 40-foot waves ...

PRESQUE ISLE, MI – Thick fog hung over Lake Huron on June 18, 1905. The 414-foot steamer Etruria was sailing northbound. The 545-foot freighter Amaza Stone was speeding southbound. The two ships ...

The Benjamin Noble was a Great Lakes freighter that vanished on Lake Superior in the late 19th century. Despite searches and later discoveries, the exact circumstances of its disappearance remain ...

SAULT STE. MARIE— Even before she went down, the Edmund Fitzgerald was arguably the most well-known freighter sailing on the Great Lakes. People came from miles around to catch a glimpse of her and ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The story of the Edmund Fitzgerald holds different memories for everyone. On that fateful November evening back in 1975, life changed forever for the families of 29 mariners who ...